{"id":52364,"date":"2025-07-07T07:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?p=52364"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:20:44","slug":"used-car-market-buyer-demand-strains-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/2025\/news\/used-car-market-buyer-demand-strains-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Used car market buyer demand strains supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New data from <a href=\"https:\/\/percayso-vehicle-intelligence.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Percayso Vehicle Intelligence<\/a> has revealed stability in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?s=used+car\">used car market<\/a> in June, with three-year-old models losing just one per cent of their value.<\/p>\n<p>It found that strong consumer demand coupled with lower stock levels resulting from the semiconductor shortages have contributed to price resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, data from Percayso Vehicle Intelligence has also revealed a shift in buyer behaviour towards transitional fuel types, with petrol models seeing values fall by 1.35%, diesels and electric vehicles down by 0.9% and 0.8% respectively, and hybrid models falling by just 0.5%.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of body style, small hatchback models saw prices actually rise by 0.4% while SUV values decreased by 0.8%.<\/p>\n<p>With the cost of living continuing to impact buyer confidence, cars priced under \u00a310,000 saw a modest price increase during the month with the most sought-after mileage in the 30,000-40,000-mile bracket.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BSM_car_sales_keys_JUL25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BSM_car_sales_keys_JUL25.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BSM_car_sales_keys_JUL25-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Automotive expert Derren Martin said: \u201cJune has proved to be a stable month in the used car market, despite the hot weather that can often distract consumers from car-buying activities. With three-year-old cars still low in volumes, due to low registrations in 2022 from semiconductor shortages, prices are continuing to hold up well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHybrids, hatchbacks and price-point cars seem to be the most in-demand, but the whole market is in a good place. There may be some slowdown over the upcoming school holiday period, but the overall sentiment is for continued stability in the used car retail market.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data from Percayso Vehicle Intelligence has revealed stability in the used car market in June, with three-year-old models losing just one per cent of their value. It found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":52365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[145,6036,3118],"class_list":["post-52364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-car-sales","tag-percayso-vehicle-intelligence","tag-used-cars"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}