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Six in ten UK used-car listings carry a price cut as Cazoo reports an Oct 2026 price dip
UK used market, snapshot of Nov 9, 2026
Cazoo's Market View, published by Cazoo.co.uk on Nov 4, 2026, reports that UK used car prices fell 0.3% month on month in Oct 2026 after two months of gains. On Nov 9, 2026, MarketCheck data shows, 366,202 of 595,117 used listings on UK dealer websites carried a price cut, a 61.5% share, so the dip is arriving on stock that has already been reduced. Those cut listings had been on the market for a median of 72 days, against 57 days for all used listings.
Average dealer used stock, on Cazoo's own measure, moved to 58.3 units in Oct 2026 from 55.8 in Sep 2026, about 4% more, and its report says younger cars led the softening. More cars on the forecourt alongside softening prices points dealers toward clearing stock over holding price. A rising share of listings with a price cut, while stock per dealer keeps climbing, would show them doing so.
A single-day snapshot cannot measure a month-on-month change, so the MarketCheck figures neither confirm nor contradict Cazoo's 0.3%. Should its next Market View record a second consecutive monthly fall, a one-month dip becomes a trend. The snapshot adds where the pressure sits and the level against which a 0.3% monthly move is read, a median asking price of £15,310 for all used listings on Nov 9, 2026.
| Segment, UK used (Nov 09, 2026) | Listings (count) | Share of market (%) | Median asking price (GBP) | Median mileage (miles) | Median days on market (days) | 90th percentile days on market (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All used listings | 595,117 | 100 | 15,310 | 38,367 | 57 | 247 |
| Listings carrying a price cut | 366,202 | 61.5 | 16,241 | 33,633 | 72 | 275 |
| 2023 to 2026 model years | 240,875 | 40.5 | 21,945 | 12,983 | 40 | 152 |
Cut listings sit 15 days longer
Listings carrying a price cut have a median mileage of 33,633 miles and a median asking price of £16,241, lower mileage and a higher price than the market overall. They skew younger, which makes this an age effect before it is a price effect. Even so, they sit 15 days longer at the median than the market as a whole, and their 90th percentile (the mark reached or passed by the slowest one in ten listings) is 275 days on market against 247 days for all used listings. The cut by itself has not cleared that stock, and the holding cost continues while it sits.
At 61.5% of listings, a price cut is the default state of UK used stock on dealer websites on Nov 9, 2026. Any further softening lands on cars whose asking price has already been trimmed once, which is margin a dealer has already given up.
Younger cars are 40.5% of listings
Cars from the 2023 to 2026 model years, the youngest stock, account for 240,875 listings, 40.5% of UK used listings, at a median asking price of £21,945 and a median mileage of 12,983 miles. They are the fastest-moving stock in the snapshot, with a median of 40 days on market, and a drift toward the market's 57 days would suggest that the younger-car softening is broadening. Cazoo's report ties the Oct 2026 softening to this age band, which is also where nearly-new part-exchange appraisals (a dealer's valuation of the car a buyer trades in) are set.
The aged tail runs past 247 days
Aged supply drives price cuts regardless of what any monthly index does in a given month, and growth in it would indicate forced cuts that pull down the asking prices shoppers see. A quarter of UK used listings have been on sale 125 days or more, and one in ten has been online 247 days or more, against a median of 57 days.
How this was measured
These are UK used-car listings on dealer websites on Nov 9, 2026, priced in pounds. The same car can appear on more than one site. All listed prices are asking prices. Figures are a single-day snapshot of levels, not a monthly change, and Cazoo's 0.3% and stock-per-dealer figures are Cazoo's own measures. Medians and percentiles come from MarketCheck data, UK live inventory, used cars; shares are computed from listing counts.
The read used the Inventory Search API, GET /v2/search/car/active (Inventory Search API docs), in its UK form: all used, GET /v2/search/car/uk/active?car_type=used&rows=0&stats=price%2Cmiles%2Cdom; used with a price cut, GET /v2/search/car/uk/active?car_type=used&price_change=negative&rows=0&stats=price%2Cmiles%2Cdom; and 2023 to 2026 model years, GET /v2/search/car/uk/active?year_range=2023-2026&car_type=used&rows=0&stats=price%2Cmiles%2Cdom. It also draws on MarketCheck research, "Aggregate UK inventory statistics on demand: price, supply, ageing and price cuts by nameplate, region or dealer group", with UK inventory data updated daily. API keys: MarketCheck developer portal.
The story we checked
"Cazoo Reports Dipping Used Car Prices and Growing Inventories in October UK Market", Cazoo.co.uk, Nov 4, 2026 (https://dealer.cazoo.co.uk/news/). Fact-check tally: 4 verified, 0 unverifiable, covering the 0.3% month-on-month fall in Oct 2026, the two months of gains that preceded it, the move in average dealer used stock from 55.8 to 58.3 units, and the finding that younger cars drove the softening. Corroboration came from Motor Trader, with the price fall also reported by The Car Expert and AM-online.
You can run the same read in MarketCheck AI Desk: https://ai.marketcheck.com/install.
Reproduce this
- search_active_cars: Pull all UK used listings on dealer websites with price, mileage and days-on-market stats for the market-wide baseline.
- search_active_cars: Filter the same UK used set to listings carrying a price reduction, then to 2023 to 2026 model years, to compare counts, medians and ageing.
- generate_full_market_capture: Read every listing in a single postcode market to see how the price-cut share and days on market look locally.
The story we checkedCazoo Reports Dipping Used Car Prices and Growing Inventories in October UK Market, Cazoo.co.uk, Nov 4, 2026
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