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Private number plates: defying the odds

JFIF File

A few days ago the press cottoned on to the fact that private plates are still a lucrative investment and that the market is as lively as it ever was. "Plate Prices Boom!" they declared, and "Top Prices Paid!".

Halloween 2020 - spooky number plates

Halloween with Regtransfers

It's that sinister time of year again: the time of mutilated pumpkins, grotesque masks, zombies, ghoulies, ghosties and creeping Americanisms. Terrifying.

Big prices for great private number plates

J4 Registration

We wrote just a while ago about the surprising resilience of the private plates market. Well, the virtual ink is barely dry on that previous post and already we find ourselves bringing more news of big sales.

NHS personal plate goes for big money

Auction - 1 NHS

The personal registrations market has repeatedly proven itself to be surprisingly resilient during difficult times: the industry fared well in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and has remained very active even during the Covid-19 epidemic.

Police plate watchdog update

Illustration of the number plate AB 1

The “reformed” and rebranded Independent Office for Police Conduct (formerly the Independent Police Complaints Commission) has decided not to investigate the controversial sale of the registration AB 1.

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