Fraser's record start: 30 sales, $500m, and a top-heavy 2026
A record January that kept running
Fraser reported selling 12 superyachts in 12 days at the start of January 2026, which it called its fastest opening to a year on record. In the months that followed the brokerage closed more than 30 superyacht sales worth over half a billion dollars in total, a number of them above 70 metres in length. Fraser fields more than 40 sales professionals, has ranked as the most active superyacht brokerage by volume for 15 straight years, and puts its five-year sales total above 6.2 billion dollars.
One brokerage is not the whole market, but Fraser handles a large enough share that its order flow works as a proxy for the wider trade. What matters is the shape inside the totals. Value is stacking up at the large end while the count of deals stays measured, and a house that thinks in decades does not call a year a standout in February without a full pipeline behind the claim.
A record 2025 set the base
The run did not appear from nowhere. Brokerage sales across the market reached about 7.5 billion euros in 2025 on BOAT International's count, and Edmiston's year-end review put the figure above 7 billion euros, up roughly 34 percent on 2024, with 485 yachts over 30 metres sold. The two houses use different methods and land on close but not identical numbers, and both describe the same direction of travel.
Rising new-build prices and multi-year delivery slots keep pushing buyers who want a boat soon toward brokerage, and toward the largest quality tonnage on offer. That is why sales above 70 metres show up out of proportion in a strong opening. The owners still transacting at pace tend to be the least sensitive to price and the most sensitive to time, and for a seller in that bracket a well-prepared boat is closer to liquid than the long average sale times lower down would imply.
What a fast top end means for owners
The speed is not shared evenly. By unit count the most liquid slice of the brokerage market is still the 30 to 40 metre band, while the value is increasingly generated above 55 metres, so a brisk headline pace can sit next to long waits for a tired or over-priced boat. Fraser's own framing is about high-quality yachts moving quickly rather than every listing benefiting.
For an owner thinking about a sale, the practical read is to price against recent closed deals instead of aspirational asks and to have the boat in turnkey, ready-to-show condition before it lists. For a buyer, the same tempo is a caution that the best large boats are not sitting around, and that waiting on a well-priced 70 metre now means competing with a shrinking pool of alternatives and a new-build queue that runs years out.