THE strength of the European access market has been demonstrated at two recent auctions.
A Genie ZX-135/70 went under the hammer at the Euro Auctions Dormagen sale in Germany for a record €165,000. Meanwhile, at the Euro Auctions sale in Leeds at the end of January, over £1.7 million worth of man-lifts were available, resulting in ‘excellent’ hammer prices.
Scott McCall, Euro Auctions cranes and access specialist, said, “Since joining the Euro Auctions team I have been working with my network, taking in more and more excellent consignments from my industry contacts. With lead times still out on larger scissor and boom lifts, Euro Auctions are keen to source more of these models and offer them to our keen buyer base.
“At the first two sales of 2024, at the Leeds site in the UK and the Dormagen site in Germany, we saw strength in the used lifting and access market, particularly with MEWP used equipment prices, as the demand for good, fresh, machines remains high. We have always been strong in the access equipment markets at our sale sites in Europe with the recent Leeds sale, presenting to the market a catalogue of 369-man lifts of various makes and models.
“We have been taking in excellent used equipment from our customers in the UK, with one such consignment being 140 JCB scissor lifts from British rental specialist GT Access. This consignment was split three ways with 50 of those machines moved to our European auction sites in Zaragoza, Spain and Dormagen in Germany with the balance selling in the Leeds auction, with all sales making excellent prices.”
Euro Auctions sells a high percentage of lots online, however, at the January Leeds sale, the number of buyers bidding on the day, in person, was described as one of the biggest crowds on record, resulting in a ‘significant uplift’ in live bidding.
Registered bidders at Leeds were up 25% in January 2024 compared with 12 months earlier and of the 5,900 registered bidders, 1,000 were buying for the first time with Euro Auctions. Registrations to bid and buy were received from across Europe, as well as the USA, South America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Top bidding countries were the UK, Ireland, Poland, Romania and Spain.
