Know what it cleared for.
Not what they're asking for it.
Condition-adjusted clearing prices for heavy machinery. Built for the people who buy and sell it.
The market runs on guesswork.
Walking onto a client's yard to bid on five excavators, flying blind. Online listings show retail fantasies. Phone calls give gut feelings. Without knowing the clearing price, the bid goes low to protect margins — and loses to a competitor willing to gamble.
Hundreds of millions out in private credit backed by machinery fleets. Portfolios marked to myth. A PDF appraisal arrives twice a year, months out of date. If a borrower fails during a market dip, nobody knows what the collateral will actually fetch today.
Two machines with identical paperwork — same year, same hours. One worked in a sand pit, one hammered granite. The physical degradation is invisible. Vastly different risk profiles treated identically.
Yellow Edge changes that.
Cleared prices, not asking prices.
Built on actual auction clearing data from European industrial markets. Not what sellers hope for. What buyers actually paid.
Condition-adjusted.
A guided four-band condition classification system — from factory-fresh to critical degradation — adjusts every valuation for physical reality, not paperwork.
Independent.
No auction house affiliation. No commercial interest in the outcome. Pricing intelligence you can show a credit committee.
Independent market analysis.
Notes from the Yellow Edge research desk on European heavy machinery markets, regulation, lending and inspection practice.
How European excavator residuals held up in Q1 2026
Clearing data across Germany, Italy and Poland shows mid-size excavator residuals stabilising at 62% of new — a five-point recovery from the Q4 2025 trough.
Why Tier 4 Final emissions rules reshaped used wheel loader pricing
Stage V and Tier 4 Final compliance has split the wheel loader market into two distinct pricing curves. Treating it as one market mis-prices roughly a third of European inventory.
Reading auction signal: what hammer-to-retail spreads tell lenders
The gap between auction clearing prices and retail asking prices is the most underused leading indicator in heavy-machinery credit. Here's how to read it.
See what your machine is worth.
Yellow Edge is built for professional dealers, lenders, insurers and fleet managers across Europe.