Release UK-2026-10 · frozen 2026-10-01
Government Surplus Price Index: October 2026
The median UK government surplus lot sold for £44. Across 12,564 completed UK government auction lots in the 365 days to 2026-10-01.
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 | £35 | £15 – £90 | 3,355 |
| office furniture lots28% of these lots cleared at exactly £10, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | £25 | £10 – £60 | 2,409 |
| electronics lots | £30 | £12 – £80 | 1,899 |
| military lots | £42 | £20 – £125 | 1,658 |
| vehicles | £1,450 | £135 – £3,500 | 1,245 |
| heavy equipment lots | £520 | £80 – £4,000 | 531 |
| catering lots11% of these lots cleared at exactly £10, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | £63 | £20 – £170 | 316 |
| appliance lots | £50 | £20 – £105 | 277 |
| sporting goods lots12% of these lots cleared at exactly £10, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | £20 | £10 – £50 | 266 |
| building materials lots | £40 | £15 – £65 | 230 |
| medical and scientific lots | £55 | £24 – £130 | 168 |
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-2026-10.json
Spreadsheet: Download CSV (one row per category, with source and licence on every row)
Method: how this index is built
Changelog: Release 2 for this market. Levels only; no movement figures published.
Other UK releases
- UK-2026-09 · September 2026 · median £42
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In the UK-2026-10 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median UK government surplus lot sold for £44.
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- 12,564 lots
- As of
- 2026-10-01
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Method. Median final sale price across every completed UK government surplus lot recorded in the 365 days to 2026-10-01, all categories pooled. Figures are frozen at publication and do not change.
Cite as. GovAuctions.app (2026). In the UK-2026-10 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median UK government surplus lot sold for £44. https://govauctions.app/research/surplus-price-index/uk-2026-10
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.