Choosing the Right Yacht Broker for Your Sale
Segment expertise, MLS reach, marketing spend, and reporting cadence — how sellers should shortlist and interview.
The right broker for a 15-metre sportfisher is rarely the right broker for a 40-metre displacement motor yacht. Segment expertise — actual, recent, closed — is the first filter.
Interview three. Ask for their marketing plan in writing: photography and video budget, MLS syndication (YachtWorld, Yatco, boats.com, and increasingly OpenSea24), boat-show presence, and paid amplification. Ask what monthly reporting looks like.
Confirm MYBA or IYBA membership, professional indemnity cover, and that client deposits sit in a regulated third-party escrow. Judge them on candour: a broker who talks you down from an aspirational price is protecting your outcome, not undermining it.