Europe’s advertised asking prices edged lower. Most did not move.
Approximately 94% held within ±2%. Reductions outnumbered increases by roughly 21 to 1, and the median reduction was 9.0%. Vessels below £70,000 (€81,669) were 2.4× as likely to be reduced as those above £230,000 (€268,341).
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Advertised repricing became less frequent: 8.3% of the July movement cohort reduced against 5.6% in August. On the same 11 listing sources the rate moved 9.0% to 6.3%, while the median reduction barely changed.
Stable for most vessels, decisively downward for those that moved.
Across 9,934 vessels observed through August, 561 asking prices were reduced and 27 were raised — 21:1 reductions for every increase. The dominant seller decision was still to wait. But when a seller did move, the median reduction was 9.0%, and 86.5% of reductions were at least 5%.
Advertised asking prices, and the changes sellers make to them — not transaction prices. Movement is measured on vessels observed at both ends of the month, in the currency of the original listing, with changes within ±2% treated as unchanged.
What it does not claim: that asking prices are completed transaction values; that a listing leaving the market is a confirmed sale; or that a tracked sample share estimates a whole national market. The report states the limits of each figure alongside it.