Traded here
- Advertising inventory Ad exchanges and supply-side platforms run the real-time auctions; Google, Meta and Amazon dominate Services, time & capacity
- Agricultural land Rural agency departments of specialist land agents Property & land
- Airport slots Bilateral deals between airlines, coordinated by Airport Coordination Limited Rights, claims & intangibles
- Carbon credits & allowances Voluntary credits trade through brokers and registries such as Verra and Gold Standard Rights, claims & intangibles
- Classic cars Marque specialists and private treaty sales handle much of the volume Collectibles & physical goods
- Cloud compute capacity AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and specialist GPU providers; a secondary market in reserved capacity exists Services, time & capacity
- Coffee Specialty green coffee trades outside the exchange entirely Commodities
- Commercial property Investment agents and specialist brokers Property & land
- Distressed debt Specialist funds and debt purchasers buy portfolios directly from banks Debt & fixed income
- Domain names Sedo, Afternic, Dan and specialist brokers for high-value names Rights, claims & intangibles
- Event tickets StubHub, Viagogo and the face-value platforms Twickets and Ticketmaster’s fan-to-fan exchange Rights, claims & intangibles
- Fine art Most art by volume trades privately through dealers, invisibly Collectibles & physical goods
- Fine wine Liv-ex provides the reference index; merchants and brokers make the market Collectibles & physical goods
- Fishing quota Traded between producer organisations, vessel owners and quota brokers Rights, claims & intangibles
- Gold Coin and small-bar dealers serve the retail end Commodities
- Grid flexibility & demand response Aggregators bundle small sites into portfolios large enough to bid Services, time & capacity
- Ground rents & freehold reversions Specialist ground rent brokers and auction houses Property & land
- Lithium Most volume moves through direct producer-to-cathode-maker contracts Commodities
- Luxury watches Grey market dealers and specialist platforms such as Chrono24 and Watchfinder Collectibles & physical goods
- Music royalties Specialist funds, catalogue brokers and fractional platforms Rights, claims & intangibles
- Patents & intellectual property IP brokers, patent auctions and specialist funds Rights, claims & intangibles
- Peer-to-peer loans A small number of FCA-authorised platforms remain active in the UK Debt & fixed income
- Personalised registrations A substantial dealer market makes prices in existing marks Rights, claims & intangibles
- Prediction markets Specialist event exchanges, plus betting exchanges which perform the same function under gambling regulation Derivatives & contracts
- Private company shares Secondary brokers and specialist platforms match occasional buyers and sellers Shares & funds
- Residential property Auction houses handle problem properties and quick sales Property & land
- Retired LEGO sets BrickLink is the specialist marketplace for sets and individual parts Collectibles & physical goods
- Shipping freight Shipbrokers match cargoes and vessels, largely by relationship Services, time & capacity
- Silver Half precious metal, half industrial input — which is why it moves like gold with the volatility dial turned … Commodities
- Sneakers StockX, GOAT and Laced operate bid-ask order books with authentication Collectibles & physical goods
- Timber & forestry Specialist forestry agents; a small number of firms handle most UK transactions Property & land
- Trading cards Specialist card auction houses handle high-value lots Collectibles & physical goods
- Uranium Traded through a small number of specialist brokers and utilities; price assessments published by UxC and TradeTech Commodities
- Used cars Franchised and independent dealers Collectibles & physical goods
- Water abstraction rights Permission to take water from a river or aquifer — a licence, not a possession, and increasingly the binding … Rights, claims & intangibles
- Whisky casks Brokers and independent bottlers; a genuine trade market exists between industry participants Collectibles & physical goods