Multihull Market Prices

[rabbi]

Originally Posted by CarlF

Back in the the high inflation years of the 1970’s and 1980’s if you bought a new boat, the salesman would tell you that you could sell it in five years for what you paid for it - and he was right.

If you bought a Lagoon 380 twenty years ago and kept up with maintenance you could sell it for the same money today. Same money - not representing the same value.

Basically 20year deprecation is roughly equal to the inflation in that time. Not bad.

[Tenedos]

(For US based cruisers) Can people use boat loans for new boat purchases? Since practically all new boats are built outside of US, I hear that loans are not an option. Is that more cash or do people use home equity type loans for new boats?

[Rapanui]

Pretty well every boat I have owned has sold in £ notes for more than I paid for it and more than the original new price
Telstar 26 Tri
Iroquois 30 Cat
Fountane Pajot Maldives 32
It's they way of things with multihulls because of demand and scarcity. Not so much with monohulls because the masive supply. However, because of inflation those £ buy far less, so in real terms the buying power of each successive sale has decreased.