Release UK-2026-09 · frozen 2026-09-04
Government Surplus Price Index: September 2026
The median UK government surplus lot sold for £42. Across 8,261 completed UK government auction lots in the 365 days to 2026-09-04.
These figures are frozen. They will not change, so a citation to this page will still be checkable next year. The live, daily-updated version is at the index page.
| Category | Median | Middle half | Lots |
|---|---|---|---|
| industrial tools lots | £36 | £17 – £85 | 2,407 |
| office furniture lots33% of these lots cleared at exactly £10, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | £20 | £10 – £55 | 1,839 |
| military lots | £55 | £22 – £130 | 1,168 |
| electronics lots13% of these lots cleared at exactly £10, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | £25 | £12 – £59 | 1,018 |
| vehicles | £1,425 | £200 – £3,500 | 932 |
| heavy equipment lots | £1,000 | £75 – £4,200 | 412 |
| sporting goods lots18% of these lots cleared at exactly £6, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | £20 | £10 – £40 | 134 |
| medical and scientific lots | £55 | £22 – £110 | 105 |
No movement figures in this release, deliberately
Levels only. Month-over-month and region-versus-region movement is withheld until the corpus has six or more complete months: with a shorter series, a change in a category median is dominated by a change in what was in the basket, and by flat-rate disposal lots whose price is an administrative convention. Each category's `modePrice`/`modeShare` shows how much of that contamination it carries.
Machine-readable: /data/price-index-releases/UK-2026-09.json
Spreadsheet: Download CSV (one row per category, with source and licence on every row)
Method: how this index is built
Changelog: First release. Levels only; no movement figures published.
Cite this
In the UK-2026-09 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median UK government surplus lot sold for £42.
- Sample
- 8,261 lots
- As of
- 2026-09-04
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
Method. Median final sale price across every completed UK government surplus lot recorded in the 365 days to 2026-09-04, all categories pooled. Figures are frozen at publication and do not change.
Cite as. GovAuctions.app (2026). In the UK-2026-09 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median UK government surplus lot sold for £42. https://govauctions.app/research/surplus-price-index/uk-2026-09
Free to use with attribution. The machine-readable version of this and every other number we publish, each with its sample size and method, is at /research/facts.json. Questions about the data are welcome via contact.