Market prices
How Market prices work
Every number on the Market prices pages is built from what sellers ask on Marketplace, the same way every day.
The listings we read
We check new Marketplace listings all day, in every city we cover. Each listing brings its asking price, its title and text, and the city it is listed in.
One segment
Each listing joins a group of the same thing, a segment: the model and year for vehicles, the number of bedrooms and baths for homes, and the product for electronics and cameras. A vehicle segment holds every trim of that model and year.
Cleaned first
Before we work anything out, we leave out the asks that would mislead: down payments and monthly payments named in the text, parts, and asks far below every similar listing.
The usual price and the range
The usual price is the middle asking price of a segment: half of the listings ask more and half ask less, so one odd price does not move it. The range is where most are listed: the middle half of the asking prices, without the cheapest quarter and the most expensive quarter.
We work both out once a day for each country and each city, from the listings up that day. A published price is rounded to the nearest 100, or to the nearest 10 under 1,000.
Published with a floor
A segment shows a price only with at least 20 listings, and a city only with at least 10. Below that, the page says “Few similar listings” instead of a number, never a guess. On a day with too few listings, a page keeps its last good numbers with their date.
People looking
People looking is the number of teams with a search turned on that covers a segment in a city, counted once for each team however many searches it has. It is worked out every night from the searches that are on. Accounts we run ourselves, and teams that opted out of group numbers, are left out. A number shows only with at least 5 teams behind it; below that, nothing shows.
