Photo of Boat Sales Have Begun To Pick Up Steam

Boat Sales Have Begun To Pick Up Steam

By Robert Bowman | Posted On Apr 22, 2025

If you've been considering listing your yacht for sale, there is no better time during the year than right now. Already the number of deals ready to close in the next 30 days has increased by over 25% compared to the previous months in 2025. Considering it may take a few weeks for your yacht broker to help you get your boat ready for market, it's important to get the process started now.

 

Consider these data points:

 

It's gametime for selling boats and you don't want to miss the selling season!

United Yacht Sales is a professional yacht brokerage firm, not a new boat dealer that also sells brokerage. That means that all of our focus, our budget, and our effort go towards selling our clients' boats that are listed with us. If you don't currently have a United Yacht Sales broker, it's easy to get started with us.

  1. Fill out our Online Boat Market Evaluation Form
  2. Email Marketing@UnitedYacht.com and we'll get you in touch with the perfect broker
  3. Call our main office at (772) 463-3131
  4. Visit our Find A Yacht Broker Near Me page

 

WHAT'S NEXT?

The next step to getting your yacht listed for sale is scheduling a meeting with one of our professional yacht brokers. Whether your boat is behind your home and docked at a marina, we'll come to you!

boat for sale on lift behind a house

Your UYS broker will want to meet with you to discuss the condition of your boat, as well as go over the following:

Our goal is to make sure getting your boat to market is done efficiently, accurately, and priced for the best possible result.

 

PREPARING YOUR BOAT FOR ADVERTISING

It's no secret that good media helps sell your boat faster. Getting good photography and video is a must!

While United Yacht Sales brokers work with a wide variety of professional photographers and videographers, we also have an agency on retainer called AH360 Photography. Steve Momot has been photographing yachts for years and is a social media content creator. The above boat, a Viking 58 just listed for sale, will feature photography, a walk-through video, and a series of social media videos to help promote it to potential buyers and other yacht brokers.

Things you can do to get your boat ready for a photo/video shoot:

 

YOU'RE OFF AND RUNNING

Once the photo shoot is done, our support team will assist your yacht broker in getting the listing built with specifications, a professional description, and load it into the multiple MLS systems for the boating industry. We then immediately begin our advertising of your listing. It includes things like:

 

Contact us today to begin the process of getting your boat listed for sale. May through July are the best months of the year for boat sales! Take advantage by listing your boat with United Yacht Sales and experience the difference in results that a professional yacht brokerage firm can deliver.

START HERE: WHAT'S MY BOAT WORTH RIGHT NOW?

 

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