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YachtCrest FAQ: buying, selling and chartering yachts
YachtCrest is a global yacht marketplace where brokers and private owners advertise yachts for sale and for charter on a fixed subscription, with no commission on a sale. Below are straight answers on searching, listing, verification, plan prices, payments and the finance tools.
Last updated 12 November 2026
About YachtCrest
What the marketplace is, where it operates and who it serves.
YachtCrest is a global yacht marketplace for buying, selling and chartering motor yachts, sailing yachts and superyachts. Brokers and private owners advertise on a fixed subscription instead of paying commission, buyers enquire directly from each listing, and a brokerage can carry a verified badge once our team has reviewed its business certificate. Sale and charter listings sit alongside a suite of yacht finance, running cost and ownership calculators.
In one paragraph
YachtCrest is a global, English-language marketplace with country editions for the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Yachts can be listed from and located anywhere in the world, prices can be displayed in euros, pounds, US dollars and other major currencies, and buyers can browse pages in their own language.
Coverage
Four groups use the marketplace: buyers and charter clients searching for a yacht, private owners selling a single boat, brokerages managing a fleet, and the finance and insurance professionals who use the calculators and market data. Buyers search and enquire without paying anything; owners and brokers pay only for the plan they advertise on.
Buyers, owners and brokers
Buying and chartering
How to search, who you are dealing with, and what to check before you commit.
Use Browse Yachts to filter by yacht type, sale or charter, condition, length, year, price, location and engine type. Your filters are held in the address bar, so a search can be bookmarked or sent to a client. Signed-in buyers can save a search and receive an email when a matching yacht is published.
Search and filters
Every listing has an enquiry form that reaches the seller in their dashboard together with your contact details, so they can reply and arrange a viewing directly. Where a broker publishes a phone number you can call them straight away. Enquiring costs a buyer nothing and your details are not passed to other sellers.
Enquiries
Brokerages are verified before their badge appears. A brokerage uploads its business certificate, our team reviews it, and the verified badge then shows on its public profile and on every listing it publishes. Private owners can complete identity verification the same way, and every new listing is reviewed by our team before it appears in search.
Verification
Yes. A yacht can be advertised for sale, for charter, or both at the same time. Charter listings show a daily rate and availability notes beside the full specifications, and charter yachts can be filtered separately when you search, so you can compare a purchase and a charter of the same model.
Sale and charter
Check the hull identification number (HIN) against the paperwork, ask for engine hours and the service history, confirm the VAT status and the ownership chain, and make any offer subject to a professional survey and sea trial. YachtCrest listings carry the HIN and full specifications, so you can shortlist and compare before travelling to view, and the Yacht Value Estimator returns an indicative market value in US dollars.
Buying checklist
Selling and listing
Publishing a yacht, what it costs and how a fleet is managed.
Create an account, choose whether you are a private owner or a brokerage, then complete the listing with photos, specifications, price and contact details. Submit it and our team reviews it before it goes live in search. You can edit, pause or mark it sold from your dashboard at any time, and enquiries arrive with the buyer contact details attached.
Publishing
No. YachtCrest charges a subscription rather than a commission, so the seller keeps the full sale price whatever the yacht fetches. The only cost of advertising is the plan chosen, which starts at €39 a month for private owners and €99 a month for brokers.
Commission-free
Each private owner receives one calendar month free per yacht, starting at its first approved publication, with no card required. At the end of that month the advertisement pauses unless you subscribe to the Owner plan at €39 a month; your listing details and its enquiries are kept either way, and the listing stays live for as long as the plan is active.
Owner plan
Brokerages can publish a whole fleet by uploading a CSV file, using our template for the column names and accepted values. The Bulk Upload Help page explains every column. Any row that fails validation is reported back with the reason, so it can be corrected and resubmitted without recreating the file.
Bulk upload
Mark the listing as sold from your dashboard and it leaves search immediately. Your plan and your other listings are unaffected, and you keep the listing record with its full enquiry history for your own records. There is no completion fee, because there is no commission.
After the sale
Plans, payments and billing
What advertising costs, how to pay and how to cancel.
Private owners pay €39 a month for one active listing after the free first month. Broker plans are Starter at €99 a month for 5 active listings, Select at €249 a month for 20 active listings, and Elite at €499 a month, or €4,788 a year, for unlimited listings. Quarterly and annual billing costs less per month, plans can be paid in euros, pounds or US dollars, and no plan carries commission.
Plan pricing
We accept card payments, including Apple Pay and Google Pay, as well as PayPal and bank transfer. Bank transfers are activated as soon as our team confirms that the payment has arrived, and every order shows its status in your dashboard.
Payment methods
You can cancel at any time from your dashboard or by contacting us, with no minimum contract beyond the period already paid for. Cancellation stops future renewals, and your plan and listings stay active until the end of that period before the advertisement pauses.
Cancellation
Fees already paid for a billing period are non-refundable, except where the law requires it or where we cannot provide the service because of our own error. Where consumer law gives you a cooling-off period, you can cancel within 14 days of first subscribing for a refund, less a proportionate amount for the days already used. Read our full Terms of Service →
Refunds
Tools, analytics and your account
The calculators, the numbers in your dashboard and getting verified.
Essential Tools, the Yacht Value Estimator and the Yacht VAT Calculator, are available without a subscription. Subscriber Tools, covering charter cost, depreciation, running costs and cost of ownership, come with every paid plan. Select and Elite also include All Premium Yacht Finance Suite, with saved scenarios, PDF reports and the Yacht Comparison Tool.
Tools
Owners and brokers see views, saves and enquiries for each yacht, and every enquiry lands in a pipeline you can move through stages with follow-up reminders and notes. Select and Elite add funnel and conversion reporting, so you can see which listings turn interest into viewings and offers.
Analytics
Yes. Saved yachts and saved searches are available to signed-in users, so your shortlist and your alerts follow you across devices. Creating an account is free, and buyers are never charged to enquire about a listing.
Your account
Register as a brokerage, then upload your business certificate from the dashboard. Our team reviews it and, once approved, the verified badge appears on your public profile and on every listing you publish. Buyers searching for a yacht use the badge to tell a verified brokerage from an unverified advertiser.
Verification
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