44 platforms · United Kingdom
The UK vehicle auction market is the least state-dominated in Europe: almost all of it runs through independent auction houses working under contract for leasing companies, fleets, insurers and police forces. Four streams matter. Direct fleet sales, where vehicles come straight from the operator with full history. Salvage, where damage category and documentation status decide what you may legally do with the car afterwards. Police and proceeds-of-crime disposals. And ordinary trade remarketing. Trade accounts for vehicles need real paperwork — motor trade insurance and references — so arrange one before the sale you want.
Of the 44 platforms here, 9 accept private buyers, 11 are trade-only and for 24 we have not confirmed who may bid. We have confirmed the buyer's premium for 2 of 44.
| Platform | Where you bid | Who can bid | Buyer's premium | Based in | Sells |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BidSpotter UK | Aggregator | Open to private buyers | Not checked | United Kingdom | Industrial machinery, CNC and machine tools |
| BPI Auctions | Not checked | Open to private buyers | Not checked | Wakefield, United Kingdom | Agricultural machinery, Catering and horeca equipment |
| John Pye Auctions | Not checked | Open to private buyers | 25% | Chesterfield, United Kingdom | Catering and horeca equipment, Industrial machinery |
| Mathewsons Auction | Not checked | Open to private buyers | Vehicles, motorbikes and trailers: 10% + VAT up to £2,000, 7.5% + VAT on the full amount from £2,001 to £20,000, and above £20,001 the first £20,000 at 7.5% with the balance at 5%. Registration numbers 10% + VAT; automobilia and bicycles 15% + VAT with a £5 minimum. | North Yorkshire, United Kingdom | Art and antiques, Bicycles and e-bikes |
| Merthyr Motor Auctions | Not checked | Open to private buyers | Not checked | Merthyr Tydfil, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| MST Auctioneers | Not checked | Open to private buyers | Not checked | United Kingdom | Industrial machinery, Catering and horeca equipment |
| RAW2K | Not checked | Open to private buyers | Not checked | United Kingdom | Salvage and damaged vehicles, Passenger cars |
| South Western Vehicle Auctions | Auction house | Open to private buyers | Not checked | Poole, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Classic cars |
| Wilsons Auctions | Not checked | Open to private buyers | Not checked | Newtownabbey, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| BCA Europe | Marketplace | Trade buyers only | Not checked | United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| Carwow Auctions | Not checked | Trade buyers only | Not checked | London, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Electric vehicles |
| City Auction Group | Not checked | Trade buyers only | Not checked | Peterborough, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| Dealer Auction | Marketplace | Trade buyers only | Not checked | United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| Dealer2Trade | Marketplace | Trade buyers only | Not checked | United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| EAMA Group | Marketplace | Trade buyers only | Not checked | United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Agricultural machinery |
| Fleet Auction Group | Not checked | Trade buyers only | Not checked | Loughborough, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| G3 Vehicle Auctions | Not checked | Trade buyers only | Not checked | Castleford, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| Manheim UK | Marketplace | Trade buyers only | Not checked | United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| Motorway for Dealers | Not checked | Trade buyers only | Not checked | London, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| TradeSales | Marketplace | Trade buyers only | Not checked | United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| AuctionNews | Official notice board | Not confirmed | Not checked | United Kingdom | CNC and machine tools, Metalworking machinery |
| GAUK Auctions | Official notice board | Not confirmed | Not checked | United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Ex-military vehicles and equipment |
| GovAuctions | Aggregator | Not confirmed | Not checked | United Kingdom | Passenger cars, IT and office equipment |
| Anglia Car Auctions | Auction house | Not confirmed | Not checked | King's Lynn, United Kingdom | Classic cars, Passenger cars |
| Bonhams | Auction house | Not confirmed | Not checked | London, United Kingdom | Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches |
| Brightwells | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Madley, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Trucks |
| Cheffins | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Ely, United Kingdom | Agricultural machinery, Construction machinery and site equipment |
| CVA Auctions | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Doncaster, United Kingdom | Trucks, Vans |
| Dore & Rees | Auction house | Not confirmed | Not checked | Frome, United Kingdom | Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches |
| East Anglian Motor Auctions | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Wymondham, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| Euro Auctions | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Dromore, United Kingdom | Excavators and earthmoving, Construction machinery and site equipment |
| GPSV | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Ingleton, United Kingdom | Ex-military vehicles and equipment, Trucks and HGVs |
| Hobbs Parker Car Auctions | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Ashford, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans |
| Husseys of Exeter | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Exeter, United Kingdom | Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials |
| Lisburn Auto Salvage | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Lisburn, United Kingdom | Salvage and damaged vehicles, Passenger cars |
| Mid Ulster Auctions | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Magherafelt, United Kingdom | Construction machinery and site equipment, Excavators and earthmoving |
| NCM Auctions | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | United Kingdom | Industrial machinery, Metalworking machinery |
| Ramco UK | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | United Kingdom | Industrial machinery, Catering and horeca equipment |
| SalvageMarket | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | United Kingdom | Salvage and damaged vehicles, Passenger cars |
| Sweeney Kincaid | Auction house | Not confirmed | Not checked | Glasgow, United Kingdom | Industrial machinery, Passenger cars |
| Thimbleby & Shorland | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Reading, United Kingdom | Construction machinery and site equipment, Agricultural machinery |
| W&H Peacock | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Bedford, United Kingdom | Art and antiques, Office and school furniture |
| Watts & Associates Auctions | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Carlton, United Kingdom | Construction machinery and site equipment, Agricultural machinery |
| Will Barker & Co | Not checked | Not confirmed | Not checked | Sleaford, United Kingdom | Agricultural machinery, Land and plots |
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Carlton, United Kingdom
Sells Construction machinery and site equipment, Agricultural machinery, Garden and outdoor equipment +4 more
Watts & Associates runs plant and machinery sales built around a three-day structure that is worth understanding before you plan…
Sleaford, United Kingdom
Sells Agricultural machinery, Land and plots, Residential property +2 more
Will Barker & Co are Lincolnshire land agents and auctioneers, set up in 2021 when the agricultural department demerged from the…
London, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Electric vehicles, Vans and light commercials
Carwow is best known to the British public as a car-buying site, and this is the other half of that business: the dealer auction…
Peterborough, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Trucks and HGVs +3 more
City Auction Group runs three centres with distinct jobs. Peterborough is the flagship — indoor auction lanes holding 450 cars…
United Kingdom
Sells Salvage and damaged vehicles, Passenger cars, Trucks and HGVs +2 more
SalvageMarket runs online salvage auctions across Britain, with several hundred lots live at once — 846 at the time of checking…
Magherafelt, United Kingdom
Sells Construction machinery and site equipment, Excavators and earthmoving, Agricultural machinery +4 more
Mid Ulster Auctions works the Northern Irish plant and machinery market, and the category list reads like a contractor's yard…
United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Trucks and HGVs +2 more
Manheim runs the largest vehicle auction network in Britain, with centres at Birmingham, Bristol, Colchester, Gloucester…
United Kingdom
Sells CNC and machine tools, Metalworking machinery, Printing machinery +5 more
AuctionNews indexes British commercial, industrial and liquidation auctions, and its value is in how finely it slices the…
United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Agricultural machinery, Retail stock, overstock and returns +2 more
EAMA Group is an asset disposal and remarketing business that sells through three channels at once, and it is refreshingly open…
United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, IT and office equipment, Ex-military vehicles and equipment +3 more
British public-sector disposal is spread across police forces, councils, the MoD and central government, each using different…
London, United Kingdom
Sells Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches, Classic cars +2 more
Bonhams runs from Montpelier Street in Knightsbridge, and for a European buyer the useful thing to know is how much of the…
Ely, United Kingdom
Sells Agricultural machinery, Construction machinery and site equipment, Trailers +3 more
Cheffins has been trading for over two hundred years and runs one of the fixtures of the English farm machinery calendar: the…
Madley, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Trucks, Motorhomes and campers +5 more
Brightwells runs one of the more varied auction calendars in Britain from its centre at Madley in Herefordshire. In a single…
Ashford, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans, Classic cars +1 more
Hobbs Parker runs Kent's principal car and commercial vehicle auction from Orbital Park in Ashford, part of a wider group that…
Dromore, United Kingdom
Sells Excavators and earthmoving, Construction machinery and site equipment, Cranes and lifting +5 more
Euro Auctions is one of the largest plant and machinery auctioneers operating in Europe, and the scale is the point: a single…
Castleford, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Electric vehicles
G3 has been running vehicle auctions in the UK for more than fourteen years and describes itself as one of the country's largest…
London, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Electric vehicles
Motorway inverts the usual auction supply chain. Instead of trade stock moving between businesses, the cars here come straight…
King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Sells Classic cars, Passenger cars, Motorcycles +1 more
Anglia Car Auctions runs two quite different businesses from one Norfolk saleroom. The weekly modern sale is trade stock — main…
Frome, United Kingdom
Sells Art and antiques, Jewellery and watches, Classic cars +1 more
Dore & Rees is a departmental auction house in Frome, Somerset, organised the way the traditional London houses are: separate…
Wymondham, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Trucks and HGVs +3 more
East Anglian Motor Auctions is a family business founded in 1946 and now in its third generation, working from a purpose-built…
Ingleton, United Kingdom
Sells Ex-military vehicles and equipment, Trucks and HGVs, Forklifts and warehouse equipment +3 more
GPSV works a narrow, useful seam: ex-MoD, NATO, PLC and local authority trucks, plant, machinery and specialist vehicles, sold…
Exeter, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Trucks and HGVs +2 more
Husseys has been auctioning in Exeter since 1777, which makes it one of the oldest firms of auctioneers still trading in Britain…
Bedford, United Kingdom
Sells Art and antiques, Office and school furniture, Clothing and footwear +3 more
W&H Peacock runs four auction centres — Bedford, St Neots, Leamington Spa and Southams — with a calendar dense enough that…
United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Electric vehicles
TradeSales is a 24/7 digital marketplace for the UK motor trade, sitting between vehicle sellers — fleets, manufacturers and…
United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Ex-military vehicles and equipment, IT and office equipment +3 more
Public-sector disposal in Britain and Ireland is scattered across dozens of separate bodies — police forces, councils, the…
United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Electric vehicles +1 more
BCA is the vehicle remarketing arm of the Constellation Automotive Group, and it describes itself as the largest used vehicle…
Doncaster, United Kingdom
Sells Trucks, Vans, Passenger cars +2 more
CVA describes itself as the UK's most established auction house for the light and heavy commercial vehicle market, and its…
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Sells Industrial machinery, Passenger cars, Vans +2 more
Sweeney Kincaid works the Scottish end of the business-asset market from a seven-acre purpose-built auction centre at Hillington…
Reading, United Kingdom
Sells Construction machinery and site equipment, Agricultural machinery, Passenger cars +2 more
Thimbleby & Shorland runs a traditional English country auction business out of Reading, with departments that have almost…
United Kingdom
Sells Industrial machinery, Catering and horeca equipment, Trucks +2 more
Ramco is a British asset disposal business organised by the sector it sells for rather than by what it sells, and that list is…
United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Electric vehicles
Dealer Auction is a trade-to-trade wholesale marketplace for used vehicles in the UK — the digital equivalent of the physical…
United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials
Dealer2Trade is a small independent trade car auction, and it is unusually direct about why it exists: it was set up by people in…
Lisburn, United Kingdom
Sells Salvage and damaged vehicles, Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials +1 more
Lisburn Auto Salvage runs a car salvage auction in Northern Ireland, and its navigation is built entirely around the thing that…
Loughborough, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Trucks and HGVs +4 more
The Fleet Auction Group, which also trades as Protruck Auctions, sells ex-fleet vehicles across an unusually broad range of types…
United Kingdom
Sells Industrial machinery, CNC and machine tools, Metalworking machinery +9 more
BidSpotter is not an auction house — it is the platform on which a large part of the British industrial auction trade runs its…
United Kingdom
Sells Industrial machinery, Metalworking machinery, Woodworking machinery +7 more
NCM Auctions sells surplus business assets across an unusually wide spread of sectors, working from offices in Doncaster, Leeds…
United Kingdom
Sells Industrial machinery, Catering and horeca equipment, Office and school furniture +4 more
MST Auctioneers is a Devon-based firm whose client list tells you exactly what turns up in its sales: insolvency practitioners…
United Kingdom
Sells Salvage and damaged vehicles, Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials +5 more
RAW2K runs online vehicle auctions across the UK with a rolling calendar — the site is organised around auctions ending today…
Poole, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Classic cars, Vans and light commercials +2 more
South Western Vehicle Auctions is a Dorset auction house running three distinct streams — everyday cars, classic cars, and…
Merthyr Tydfil, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Trucks and HGVs +1 more
Merthyr Motor Auctions operates from Redbarrel House on Pant Road in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, and describes itself as the largest…
Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
Sells Passenger cars, Vans and light commercials, Electric vehicles +9 more
Wilsons Auctions was formed in 1936 and is still family-owned and managed, having grown from a single site in Northern Ireland…
Chesterfield, United Kingdom
Sells Catering and horeca equipment, Industrial machinery, IT and office equipment +3 more
John Pye Auctions is the trading name of John Pye & Sons Limited (company number 02564753), a family-run auction house founded in…
Wakefield, United Kingdom
Sells Agricultural machinery, Catering and horeca equipment, CNC and machine tools +5 more
BPI Auctions is a commercial asset disposal business based at Ripley House, Ripley Drive, Normanton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire…
North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Sells Art and antiques, Bicycles and e-bikes, Classic cars +3 more
Mathewsons is a family-run auction house in Pickering, North Yorkshire, selling classic vehicles and memorabilia from Unit 10…
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