What's my car worth? — valued against more than 30,000 listings

When you are about to sell a car, the hardest decision is the price: go low and you lose money, go high and you wait for months. The What's my car worth? page turns that decision into numbers — pick make, model, year and mileage, and the result appears immediately.

What the estimate is built on

The base is 30,817 car listings in the Prayk catalogue. The system first takes the basket for your make and model, then looks for the year within a ±1 year window; if listings are scarce the window widens to ±3 years and, if needed, to all years. At every step the page shows what was actually used.

Adjustments follow: age, mileage, engine size, transmission, fuel type, body style and the market the car was built for. Two cars of the same year and model with 100,000 and 300,000 kilometres will not land on the same number.

An example

A 2015 Mercedes E-Class, 200,000 km, 2.0 petrol, automatic, saloon, European market returns 27,500 AZN for a quick sale, 30,800 AZN as the market price and 37,900 AZN as the maximum. The basket holds 104 comparable listings and the confidence grade is high.

Confidence is not hidden

Every result carries a grade — high, medium or low. The grades were backtested: the median error is roughly 8 per cent at high, 10 at medium and 15 at low. On a rare model or an old year the basket shrinks, the grade drops, and you see that on the page. Numbers are not invented.

Below the result sit the comparable listings: the actual cars that went into the calculation, with price, year and mileage. You can check for yourself what the estimate rests on.

Why a separate page

Cars and flats are valued on completely different parameters — mileage and engine on one side, district and floor on the other. That is why What's my home worth? is its own page: the forms never mix, and each stays precise in its own domain.

A caveat

The estimate rests on asking prices on Prayk rather than closed deal prices, and it is not a formal valuation. Insurance, credit or notary work needs a licensed appraiser.

The other pricing tools live in the Prices section. On the wider market picture: how the market price indicator is calculated.