Is the party over on the used boat market?
In 2020, I started to monitor developments on the used boat market in Italy and Croatia using the relevant internet exchanges, with the total number of listings in March 2020 set as a 100 percent reference value.
As can be seen from the chart, the number of sailboat listings had then fallen to around 64% of the initial figure by March 2022 – and that of motorboats to around 80%.
Now that the corona effect is clearly over, listings for sailing boats are back at the level of March 2022, while those for motorboats are even 40 percent (!) higher than they were back then.
So it seems that we are slowly but surely heading back towards a buyer’s market – especially when it comes to motorboats.
