The week in the market · 24 August to 30 August 2026
A closed UTC week, written once and never rewritten. Later corrections reach the next period, not this one. A UTC week runs Monday 10am to Monday 10am Australian eastern standard time; daylight-saving clocks read an hour later.
23,970
price cuts · against 3,095 rises · median cut $1,000 · once per car per day
10,723
cars left the market
$423,150,338 in final asking prices, all bases as advertised
of which at least 7,683 carry the seller’s own proof
In brief
- 1Exits ran at 1,462 cars a day over 7 recorded days, up 0.9% on the 7 days before (1,449 a day over 6 recorded); at least 7,683 of the week's 10,723 carry the seller's own proof of sale.
- 2Dealers cut 23,970 cars' prices against 3,095 rises: 2.28 cuts a day per 100 cars live, down 9.1% on the 7 days before; the median cut was $1,000.
- 3ACT's median used ask moved most, down 3.8% to $22,990 over 1,512 cars; VIC, SA, TAS, NT held within half a percent.
- 4Ford Ranger led the market out with 1,207 proved exits, down 11.0% per recorded day; GWM Haval Jolion rose fastest among the twelve, up 22.1% per recorded day.
- 5Electric cars' median used ask closed at $42,990 over 3,740 cars, down 2.3% (−$1,000); their proved exits up 1.4% per recorded day.
each sentence computed from the figures below and carrying its count or its basis; nothing here is a forecast
Against the period before
This period against the 7 days before (17 Aug to 23 Aug): 7 of 7 days recorded this period against 6 of 7 before, so flows are compared per recorded day. Flows are summed over each window’s recorded days; levels are read on its last recorded day. A window is never filled in, and a comparison the windows cannot bear is left blank with the reason.
| Measure | This period | the 7 days before | Change | Per recorded day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cars that left the market · cars, one per vehicle | 10,236 | 8,694 | up 17.7% (+1,542) | 1,462 vs 1,449, up 0.9% |
| Of them, proved by the seller's page · cars | 7,700 | 7,068 | up 8.9% (+632) | 1,100 vs 1,178, down 6.6% |
| Cars with a price cut · cars, once per car per day | 23,970 | 22,979 | up 4.3% (+991) | 3,424 vs 3,830, down 10.6% |
| Cars with a price rise · cars, once per car per day | 3,095 | 2,543 | up 21.7% (+552) | 442 vs 424, up 4.3% |
| Cars live at close · cars on the last recorded day | 150,480 | 152,954 | down 1.6% (−2,474) | — |
| Median used asking price at close · one price per car, bases mixed | — | — | — | — |
| Median days advertised at exit · proved exits with a published age, 4,310 and 4,163 cars | 35d | 34d | up 2.9% (+1d) | — |
Median used asking price at close: the national median ask has been written daily since 2026-09-05; neither window has one.
10,236 cars left the market in the latest window of the last eight weeks
Cars that left the market, one per vehicle, summed over each window's recorded days, the last eight weeks · cars · n = 24,726 · as at 30 Aug 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · a hollow bar is a window not fully recorded and a tick is a window before the series began; never filled in
Source: the daily roll-up, by window.
23,970 cars cut in the latest window of the last eight weeks
Cars repriced down, once per car per day, summed over each window's recorded days, the last eight weeks · cars · n = 55,116 · as at 30 Aug 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · same marks as the exits chart
Source: the daily roll-up, by window.
Per recorded day against the 7 days before: exits up 0.9%, proved exits down 6.6%, cuts down 10.6%, rises up 4.3%; cars live at close down 1.6%; median days to sell up 2.9%.
ACT's median used ask moved most, down 3.8% to $22,990
Median used asking price by state, the 7 days before against this period, states with 1,000 or more priced cars both sides · dollars · n = 8 · as at 30 Aug 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · asking prices as advertised, bases mixed, one price per car; a state's median can move because the yards it watches changed, not only because sellers repriced
Source: the daily state roll-up, each window's last recorded day.
Cars that left the market · top models (10,723 total)
one count per physical car in the week of its final exit, no listing of it still live; value is each car's final ask, once
Most repriced · cuts in the period
one count per car per day, however many syndicated copies repeat it; grows as coverage finds more cars
The corpus behind these figures
Spotlot monitored 224,545 listings on 2026-08-24 and 222,185 on 2026-08-30 (150,480 physical cars after syndication). listings monitored by Spotlot, which grows with coverage; not a count of the Australian market.
What this report withholds, and why
- new to market: first seen during a coverage ramp is discovery, not listing; withheld until coverage stabilises
- median ask movement: a median over a sample whose size moves with coverage measures composition; withheld until a week's n holds still
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Spotlot, week of 24 August to 30 August 2026: Exits ran at 1,462 cars a day over 7 recorded days, up 0.9% on the 7 days before (1,449 a day over 6 recorded); at least 7,683 of the week's 10,723 carry the seller's own proof of sale. 23,970 price cuts against 3,095 rises (median cut $1,000), counted once per car per day. Most repriced: Ford Ranger, 1,080 cuts. 222,185 listings monitored at close. Observed, never modelled. spotlot.io/reports/w-2026-08-24