---
title: "Search Sold & Delisted Cars"
date: 2026-07-22
url: https://marketcheck.uk/products/used-car-market-data-api/past-sold-car-search
type: page
description: "Query 90 days of sold and delisted UK car listings: sold prices, days on market and price drops before sale. Dealer performance and market trends via one API."
---

# Search Sold & Delisted Cars

# Search cars after they sell

The Past Inventory Search API covers the 90 days of listings that just left the market: what sold, what it was advertised at, and how long it took.

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## The other half of the market story

Live listings tell you what dealers are asking. Sold and delisted listings tell you what the market actually accepted. This API searches both sold and expired stock from the past 90 days, updated daily.

Filter for inferred sold vehicles, find cars that vanished from every site, or include every duplicate advert per number plate to trace a car across sources.

[Read the technical docs →](https://docs.marketcheck.com/uk/docs/api/cars/inventory/past-inventory-search)

## Questions only sold data can answer

### What did it really sell at

Final advertised prices and the price drops that preceded the sale, including the percentage change over the listing lifetime.

### How fast does it sell

Days-on-market statistics for any make, model or region, the core input for stocking decisions and turn forecasts.

### Which dealers perform

Filter by dealer or website to measure sell-through and speed against the market, dealer by dealer.

- **90** Days of sold history

Daily

Updates by 11:00 UTC

- **675,000** Live listings alongside

- **500** Free trial calls

## What clients build with it

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### Pricing against sold, not asking

Valuation engines weight sold prices to avoid the trap of pricing against optimistic asking prices.

MarketCheck Price →](https://marketcheck.uk/products/marketcheck-price)[

### Auction buying decisions

Buyers compare auction prices with what equivalent retail cars just sold for, and the days on market to expect.

Auction Stock Analysis →](https://marketcheck.uk/products/auction-stock-analysis)[

### Investor reporting

Track sell-through rates and realised price trends across dealer groups for performance analysis.

Investor Reports →](https://marketcheck.uk/products/investor-reports)

## Common questions

### How do you know a car has sold?

The API distinguishes inferred sold vehicles, where the listing pattern indicates a sale, from expired listings, where a number plate simply has no active advert anywhere we track. You can filter for either with the sold and expired parameters, so a car moved between websites is not mistaken for a sale.

### How far back does the sold data go?

The Past Inventory Search covers a rolling 90 days of sold and delisted listings, refreshed daily by 11:00 UTC. For longer history on a specific car, the History API tracks every advert per number plate back to 2022; for longer market-wide history, our data feeds carry every listing since 2021.

### Can I see every advert a sold car had?

Yes. By default results are deduplicated to one attributed listing per car, but the nodedup parameter returns every advert per number plate across every website, useful for tracing how a car was marketed before it sold.

### Can I run statistics on sold stock?

Yes, the same aggregations as the live search: price and days-on-market statistics, and counts by make, model, fuel type or any other field, so you can benchmark realised prices against asking prices for any segment.

## What our clients say


It became obvious quickly that they were the right organisation for our needs. We've been up and running almost a year and have been impressed with the quality of service and support.

Chris Robertson

Founder, Motiv Finance

## Test our data.

Try the API for free or receive a test of the feed data.

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