The Listing Ledger, July 2026: First Month With a Median Model Year of 2020
This is the first issue of a monthly series that tracks Georgia's advertised car supply in five fixed numbers. In July, 7,281 cars were newly listed — 8.9% fewer than in June; the median asking price came in at $13,800, a fifth month inside a $400 band; the median model year reached 2020 for the first time; the uncleared share rebounded to 58.6% after two months at 55.7%; and EVs reached 5.3% of known-fuel listings, a series high.
Why a ledger
Georgia's official monthly statistics on the car trade arrive with a lag: the first July trade signal lands on 13 August, and detailed tables on the 19th. The listing floor moves daily. This series publishes the same five numbers each month — volume of newly listed cars, median asking price, median model year, uncleared share and fuel mix — under the same canonical filter, so that changes are comparable issue to issue.
One warning applies to the whole series: listings measure advertised supply. They are not registrations, imports or sales, and a listing's asking price is not a transaction price.
Newly listed cars by month
Canonical filter; month of first listing. All months are complete.
Volume: fewer new listings
7,281 cars were newly listed in July under the canonical filter — 8.9% fewer than June's 7,991 and 12.2% below the May peak of 8,296. March and April sat near 6,500.
The series is five months old, so we cannot separate seasonality from trend; a summer dip may be normal, or not. The number is reported, not interpreted.
Volume: fewer new listings
7,281 cars were newly listed in July under the canonical filter — 8.9% fewer than June's 7,991 and 12.2% below the May peak of 8,296. March and April sat near 6,500.
The series is five months old, so we cannot separate seasonality from trend; a summer dip may be normal, or not. The number is reported, not interpreted.
Newly listed cars by month
Canonical filter; month of first listing. All months are complete.
Prices: five months inside a $400 band
July's median asking price was $13,800 — the fifth consecutive month between $13,500 and $13,900. The share of listings asking $25,000 or more slipped back to 19.9% after June's 21.0%.
A flat median over a changing population is not price stability for any particular car: as the next section shows, the population itself keeps getting newer.
The first 2020 month, and an uncleared rebound
July's median model year was 2020 — the first month in the series above 2019. This continues the composition shift our 24 July report documented through 20 July: newer cars are a growing share of what gets listed.
The uncleared share rebounded to 58.6%, up 2.9 points from the 55.7% of May and June and back near the March–April level. The listing data do not identify the legal or logistics cause of the rebound. Dispatch schedules, auction cycles and seller behaviour all feed this share, and none is separately observable here.
The first 2020 month, and an uncleared rebound
July's median model year was 2020 — the first month in the series above 2019. This continues the composition shift our 24 July report documented through 20 July: newer cars are a growing share of what gets listed.
The uncleared share rebounded to 58.6%, up 2.9 points from the 55.7% of May and June and back near the March–April level. The listing data do not identify the legal or logistics cause of the rebound. Dispatch schedules, auction cycles and seller behaviour all feed this share, and none is separately observable here.
July's most-listed models
Toyota Camry led July's new listings with 330 cars at a $13,500 median, ahead of Hyundai Elantra (278 at $11,500). Third was BMW X5, with 259 listings at a $26,800 median, ahead of Toyota RAV4 (208) and Volkswagen Jetta (188).
The rest of the top ten — Forester, Outback, Trailblazer, Highlander and Trax — shows a mix of compact and mid-size SUVs alongside sedans. Listing fields do not establish auction provenance.
July's most-listed models
Toyota Camry led July's new listings with 330 cars at a $13,500 median, ahead of Hyundai Elantra (278 at $11,500). Third was BMW X5, with 259 listings at a $26,800 median, ahead of Toyota RAV4 (208) and Volkswagen Jetta (188).
The rest of the top ten — Forester, Outback, Trailblazer, Highlander and Trax — shows a mix of compact and mid-size SUVs alongside sedans. Listing fields do not establish auction provenance.
Fuel mix: EVs at a series high
Among July listings with a recorded fuel type, petrol-only cars made 63.5%, hybrids and plug-in hybrids 24.8%, and battery-electric cars 5.3% — the EV share's highest reading in the five-month series, up from 4.2% in March.
Fuel type is missing on just over a quarter of July listings (28%), so these shares describe the known-fuel base, and one month's step is not a trend.
How to read this series
Definitions are fixed: passenger cars, not hidden, asking price of $2,000 or more, month assigned by first listing date, medians rather than averages, snapshot taken in the first days of the following month. When a definition changes, the change will be stated in the issue that makes it. The August issue is due in early September.
AutoBridge listing data under the canonical filter, snapshot 3 August 2026. All figures describe advertised supply on the Georgian listing floor: volumes are newly created listings by month of first publication; prices are asking prices, not transactions; the uncleared share is the share of listings marked not customs-cleared; fuel shares use the known-fuel base only (fuel type missing on just over a quarter of July listings). Five months is too short for seasonal adjustment; month-on-month changes are reported without trend claims.
Methodology
AutoBridge listing database under the canonical analytics filter (passenger cars, not hidden, published from 1 March 2026, asking price of $2,000 or more). No external data.
16,404 active canonical listings at the 3 August 2026 snapshot. Monthly arrival cohorts include active, sold and archived listings and exclude pending/removed rows; July contains 7,281 arrivals. Fuel shares use 5,231 July listings with known fuel, including 63.5% petrol.
Full calendar months March–July 2026; active-stock snapshot 3 August 2026.