The site said used car sales almost reached the average of the previous months of the year, meaning that this August lacked the one-time seasonal decline that was experienced at this time last year.

For the period January-August, used car sales increased 2.9% year-on-year to 620,000.

The number of imported used cars climbed almost 15% to 83,100.

JoAutok.hu CEO Bertalan Halász said there is a serious chance that the annual peak of 907,000 sales set last year will be broken.

Climbing sales are supported by the rise in real wages.