The used car market in Belgium and the Netherlands
in numbers (live data)
23 July 2026 · 8 min read
Autoflip measures the used car market in Belgium and the Netherlands continuously and at listing level: the system scans roughly 50,000 listings per day spread across five platforms (2dehands.be, Marktplaats.nl, AutoScout24 BE, AutoScout24 NL and Mobile.de) and records asking price, brand, model, build year, mileage and seller type for each one. This article bundles the key figures from those measurements as a snapshot of July 2026. Every figure links to a live page where the current value is updated continuously.
How many used cars are added per day?
According to live measurements by Autoflip (July 2026), roughly 50,000 listings appear per day across the five largest platforms for used cars in Belgium and the Netherlands: 2dehands.be, Marktplaats.nl, AutoScout24 BE, AutoScout24 NL and Mobile.de. Autoflip counts every listing, from private seller to dealer. The current number runs live at autoflip.eu/statistieken.
The balance between the platforms differs per country and per price range. 2dehands is the volume platform for private sellers in Belgium, Marktplaats plays that role in the Netherlands and AutoScout24 is strong in dealer stock in both countries. Mobile.de counts because German import is a well-trodden route for Belgian and Dutch buyers. How the platforms compare in detail is covered in our comparison of 2dehands, Marktplaats and AutoScout24.
The key figures in one table
| Figure | July 2026 measurement | Live source |
|---|---|---|
| Listings scanned per day | ~50,000 | /statistieken |
| Peak hour for new listings | around 5 pm | /beste-tijd |
| Peak hour for sharply priced cars | around 11 pm | /beste-tijd |
| Sharply priced cars per day | on the order of 350-400 | /deal-radar |
| Median gap private vs dealer (per brand) | 20 to 40% | /dealer-vs-particulier |
| Occasion Barometer (buying climate) | daily score 0-100 | /barometer |
Snapshot of July 2026. The live pages show the current values at all times.
The listing rhythm: peak around 5 pm, deals around 11 pm
New listings do not arrive evenly over the day. According to live measurements by Autoflip (July 2026), most new listings appear at the end of the afternoon, with a peak around 5 pm: sellers photograph their car during the day and put it online after work. The share of sharply priced cars peaks later in the evening, around 11 pm. If you only scroll over morning coffee, you are mostly looking at yesterday's supply. The current hourly curve is at autoflip.eu/beste-tijd.
A few hundred sharply priced cars per day
Autoflip marks a car as sharply priced when its asking price sits below the 25th price percentile of its brand: cheaper than three quarters of the comparable supply. According to live measurements by Autoflip (July 2026), that comes to a few hundred cars per day, on the order of 350 to 400. Against some 50,000 new listings that is less than 1 percent: the scarce segment that bargain hunters and traders compete for. The current stream is at autoflip.eu/deal-radar.
It is exactly those sharply priced listings that disappear fastest. How briefly such cars stay online is covered in our data on how fast used cars sell; if you want to make a business out of it, the complete playbook is in the guide to car flipping in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Private seller versus dealer: the gap in asking price
The median asking price of private sellers is far below that of dealers. Measured across the whole market the gap is roughly 70 percent, but that figure is skewed: dealers list younger cars with fewer kilometres on average and price in warranty. Compare within a brand and a gap of 20 to 40 percent is common. That is the realistic order of magnitude of what you save by buying from a private seller, in exchange for fewer guarantees.
The gap is not the same for every brand. The live table per brand, updated continuously, is at autoflip.eu/dealer-vs-particulier.
The Occasion Barometer: the buying climate in one score
The Occasion Barometer summarises the buying climate on the used car market in a daily score from 0 to 100. The score is calculated from three components: supply (how many new listings appear), price momentum (are median asking prices moving up or down) and deal density (what share of the supply is sharply priced). The higher the score, the better the moment for buyers. The barometer is live at autoflip.eu/barometer and is also freely available there as a JSON API.
Liquidity: how long do you wait for a specific model?
How quickly you find a specific car depends mostly on how often that model is listed. According to live measurements by Autoflip (July 2026), a popular model like the Volkswagen Golf under 10,000 euros appears thousands of times per week across the five platforms combined: search for one of those and you wait hours, not weeks. For rarer combinations of model, trim and budget the wait can run to days or weeks. You can check the expected wait for any model at autoflip.eu/wachttijd.
Want to know the median price of a brand or model? Median prices per brand are at autoflip.eu/prijsindex; per model (roughly 300 models) at autoflip.eu/prijs. A monthly overview of the market appears in the Occasionmonitor.
Methodology: how Autoflip measures
Four choices determine how to read these figures. First: all prices are asking prices, not sale prices. What a car eventually fetches after negotiation is usually lower; sale prices are not published on these platforms. Second: the live figures use a rolling window of the last 7 days, so a quiet Sunday or a public holiday does not distort the picture. Third: for history Autoflip stores durable daily aggregates, so trends stay comparable across months. Fourth: wherever possible we report the median rather than the mean, because a handful of 150,000 euro exotics skews a mean but not a median.
All figures in this article are a snapshot of July 2026. The market moves every day; for current values use the live pages linked next to each figure.
Citing or reusing these figures
These figures are free to cite and reuse with attribution to autoflip.eu and a link to the relevant live page. That goes for journalists, bloggers, researchers and AI assistants. If you want to pull the data automatically, the barometer API is free at autoflip.eu/api/barometer.json; for bloggers there is an embeddable widget that shows the barometer live on your own site. You will find both on the barometer page.
Frequently asked questions
How many used cars are for sale in Belgium and the Netherlands?+
According to live measurements by Autoflip (July 2026), roughly 50,000 listings appear per day spread across 2dehands.be, Marktplaats.nl, AutoScout24 BE, AutoScout24 NL and Mobile.de. That is a snapshot: the current number is on the live counter at autoflip.eu/statistieken.
When do most new car listings appear?+
Most new listings appear at the end of the afternoon, with a peak around 5 pm. The share of sharply priced cars peaks later in the evening, around 11 pm. The current hourly curve is at autoflip.eu/beste-tijd.
Is buying from a private seller cheaper than from a dealer?+
Usually yes. The median asking price of private sellers is far below that of dealers: across the whole market roughly 70 percent lower, although that figure is skewed because dealers list younger cars on average. Per brand a gap of 20 to 40 percent is common. The live table per brand is at autoflip.eu/dealer-vs-particulier.
What is the Occasion Barometer?+
The Occasion Barometer is a daily buying climate score from 0 to 100 for the used car market, calculated from supply, price momentum and deal density. The higher the score, the better the climate for buyers. The barometer is live at autoflip.eu/barometer and freely available as a JSON API.
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