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Used van market will rebalance in 2015, says Manheim
Date: 19 December 2014 | Author: Daniel Puddicombe
The used van market will rebalance during 2015, according to remarketing company Manheim.
Manheim said the industry is still seeing a high number of older vans on the auction block, but said the pattern will be less evident during 2015, based on new sales data from the Society of Motor Manufactures and Traders.
The company has used the SMMT's data since 2005 to produce a rolling overview of used van availability by tracking the number of vans coming into the market.
New van sales have risen from 186,000 in 2009 to 316,000 in 2014, and the auction house said the natural market equilibrium between age categories of vans has still not yet been achieved.
"Our recent analysis has shed a new light on the size of the issue. When mapping each year's annual total new van registrations forward it is clear to see where the impact of registration shortfalls will be felt," said James Davies, head of commercial vehicles at Manheim.
"Take 2009 - the 186,000 new vans registered that year become one to two year old vans in 2010, then two to three year old vans in 2011, three to four vans in 2012 and so on. That's not to say they will be sold, but that each year's new van volume is effectively tracking through, by age banding, adding to the overall UK van parc of 3.7 million vehicles," said Davies.
