Which car brands are dropping in price?
How to track the used market live

23 July 2026 · 6 min read

Used car prices never stand still. Every week tens of thousands of listings appear on 2dehands, Marktplaats, AutoScout24 and Mobile.de and every week the asking prices shift with the season, interest rates and whatever comes newly to market. Yet nobody publishes that movement at brand level for Belgium and the Netherlands. So we measure it ourselves: Autoflip calculates the weighted median asking price per brand every week and puts the fastest fallers and risers live online. This article explains how that measurement works and above all what to do with it as a buyer, seller or flipper.

How we measure which brands are falling

The measurement is simple to explain. Autoflip continuously monitors the major platforms in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany and records the asking price of every listing. Every week we calculate the weighted median asking price per brand over the last 7 days and compare it with the 7 days before. A brand only counts if both windows contain at least 100 listings: that way a handful of outliers cannot pollute the measurement. The result is a ranking of the fastest fallers and risers, live at autoflip.eu/snelste-dalers.

You will deliberately find no brand names in this article. Which brands are falling changes every week: a brand at the top of the fallers today can just as easily be rising next month. Any list in a blog article is outdated by definition the moment you read it. The live ranking is not, so that is where we point you.

Why prices move per brand

Season. Convertibles get more expensive in spring when everyone wants to drive with the top down and slide back in autumn. 4x4s do the opposite: they peak in autumn and winter when buyers think of snow and slippery roads. Brands with a lot of one body type in their range move with that season.

New model generations. As soon as a new generation of a popular model reaches the showroom, the previous generation drops on the used market. Lease cars of three to four years old also return to the market in waves and such a wave pushes down the price of exactly that model at exactly that brand.

Fuel type. Diesel is under pressure in cities with a low-emission zone: whoever lives in or around such a city no longer wants one and you see that in the price. Electric in turn moves with subsidies and with new car prices: every price cut on new EVs pushes down the used value of existing ones. Brands leaning heavily on either of the two therefore move harder than the market. How that trade-off works out for you is covered in our diesel versus electric comparison.

Interest rates and purchasing power. A used car is often partly financed. When rates rise or purchasing power falls, demand shifts toward cheaper brands and the more expensive segments drop first. When that turns around, those same segments also recover first.

What to do with it as a buyer

A falling brand is good news for buyers. Sellers of such a brand compete with ever cheaper alternatives: every week new listings appear priced just a bit sharper. That gives you negotiation room, especially on listings that have been online for a few weeks and have watched the market sink beneath them.

In practice it works like this. First check the current median asking price for the brand in the price index and the price per model in the model prices. That tells you what a normal asking price is and shows you immediately when a listing sits below it. The daily buying climate (is this a good week to strike or not) is on the barometer.

What to do with it as a seller or flipper

For sellers the logic flips: in a falling market waiting costs money. Every week your car sits for sale, the asking prices of comparable listings drop further and yours becomes relatively more expensive. Starting high "to leave room to come down" is doubly expensive in such a market: you miss the buyers filtering on a maximum price and by the time you lower your price, the market has dropped further beneath you. Price sharp and sell fast. How to do that (pricing, photos, timing) is in our guide to selling your car faster.

For flippers the brand ranking works on both sides of the deal. You prefer to buy in a segment where prices are falling (more negotiation room) but you want to sell on quickly, before the decline eats your margin. Whoever follows the fallers and risers weekly knows which brands offer room right now and which are better left alone for a while. The full approach is in our flipping guide for Belgium and the Netherlands.

Timing: the best deals appear every day

Brand trends move per week but good deals appear every day. A seller who wants to get rid of a car quickly posts it below the median and such a listing is usually gone within hours. Our data also shows that the share of sharply priced listings peaks in the evening: that is when most private sellers put their car online. What that pattern looks like today is live at autoflip.eu/beste-tijd.

Refreshing search pages by hand to catch those deals is not sustainable. Whoever has an alert set up gets a Telegram notification within seconds as soon as a car matches their filters and is therefore first in line. In a market where the sharpest listings disappear within hours, that is the difference between calling first and calling fifth.

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