{"id":54942,"date":"2026-02-09T06:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?p=54942"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:41:42","slug":"used-car-values-at-bca-rise-5-8-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/2026\/news\/used-car-values-at-bca-rise-5-8-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Used car values at BCA rise 5.8% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?s=used+car\">used car<\/a> values rose sharply at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?s=bca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BCA<\/a> in January, increasing by 5.8% or \u00a3415 month-on-month to \u00a37,630.<\/p>\n<p>This was the highest average price recorded since October last year.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 cars were sold in the first full week alone, while demand for electric vehicles built on pre-Christmas momentum to set new back-to-back weekly sales records.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Pearson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bca.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BCA<\/a> COO UK said: \u201cWhile the early weeks of January can sometimes be a slow burner, the strength of the market this year caught a few people out and led to some super-competitive bidding activity. The general sentiment is that the used car market is healthy enough for the time of year with good demand and resilient pricing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, there is still room for it to improve further. While there is always a focus on the best condition auction stock that can be efficiently retail prepared and sold, activity further down the condition grading bands is also healthy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s a particular strength in the older stock, with some shortages now starting to appear in the five-to-six-year age segment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLooking ahead, while March will eventually fuel a further uplift of fresh stock into the market, the well-balanced supply and demand dynamics that we\u2019ve been experiencing for a number of months should continue to support pricing resilience and ongoing market confidence for buyers and sellers alike.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average used car values rose sharply at BCA in January, increasing by 5.8% or \u00a3415 month-on-month to \u00a37,630. This was the highest average price recorded since October last year. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":54079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[219,145,3391],"class_list":["post-54942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bca","tag-car-sales","tag-used-car-values"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54942","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=54942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}