{"id":851,"date":"2014-09-12T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=851"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T11:30:00","slug":"average-used-car-values-auction-reach-record-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/average-used-car-values-auction-reach-record-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Average used car values at auction reach record levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average value of a used car rose by 3.8% to \u00a38,001, according to the latest BCA Pulse report. Values are now 13.6% higher than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Henstock, BCA UK operations director said the increased supplies of used vehicles in late September generated by the plate change could lead to a softening of values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the plate change now in full swing, we expect volumes to rise from late-September onwards and this traditionally exerts some pressure on average values and conversion rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoorly presented and damaged vehicles might begin to struggle, however, and if the market conditions tighten then these vehicles will need to be competitively priced to stimulate interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henstock said the challenge for dealers was to source ready to retail vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average value of a used car rose by 3.8% <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/average-used-car-values-auction-reach-record-levels\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-remarketing-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}