What is a used LED screen worth per square metre in the UK?

UK price guide

What is a used LED screen worth?

Rental-grade used screens are quoted at £400 to £800 a square metre and fixed-installation used screens at £600 to £1,200, against £1,200 to £2,200 a square metre for new indoor panels. This is the worst-documented category covered here, and the used figures rest on a single source around nineteen months old.

Researched 23 October 2026. Asking prices, not sold prices — see the limits at the foot of this page.

What the market is asking, per square metre

Measure	Asking	Source
Used rental-grade screens	£400–800/m²	IAMLEDWALL used-LED guide (single source, ~19 months old) (seller-published)
Used commercial fixed-installation screens	£600–1,200/m²	IAMLEDWALL used-LED guide (single source, ~19 months old) (seller-published)
One London purchase, second-hand P3 indoor at 1200 nit	35% below new	IAMLEDWALL (seller-published)
NEW indoor P2.5–P3.9, supply only	£1,200–2,200/m²	Dynamo LED Displays (seller-published)
HIRE rate, indoor 2.6–3.9mm pitch	£140–320/m²/day	Audio Visual Excellence 2025 guide (seller-published)

Why the range is that wide

The hire rate is the figure worth doing arithmetic with, and it is the reason this page includes it. A used rental-grade screen sells at £400 to £800 a square metre and hires out at £140 to £320 a square metre a day. On those numbers a panel pays for itself in roughly three to six hire days, which means an AV company deciding whether to sell a wall or keep it is really deciding whether that stock will go out three more times. Many will conclude it is worth keeping, and that is a legitimate answer — but it is better to reach it from the numbers than from a guess. Beyond that, the honest position is that used LED is poorly documented. The only used figures found came from one supplier's guide around nineteen months old, and that source also notes UK second-hand prices run 20 to 40 per cent above Chinese ones once local taxes and compliance are included.

What moves the number

Pixel pitch

P2.5, P3, P3.9 and so on — the millimetres between pixels, and the first thing any buyer asks. Finer pitch costs more and is viewable closer; it is the single biggest driver.

Run hours and brightness

LED dims with use. A panel rated 1200 nit when new is not 1200 nit after four touring seasons, and a seller who can state run hours and a current brightness measurement is worth materially more than one who cannot.

Dead pixels and panel consistency

Ask for a dead-pixel count and a photograph of the wall lit white. Panels from different production batches can show visible colour variation even when each is individually fine, which is the defect that ruins a wall.

Rental-grade or fixed-install

Rental cabinets are built for repeated rigging and quick service; fixed-install panels are not. They are different products at different prices and the used figures above separate them.

What is excluded

Processors, receiving cards, rigging structure, spares and installation are usually outside the per-square-metre price, and together they are not a rounding error.

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The limits of these figures

These are asking prices and published guide figures, not sold prices.
The used figures come from a single supplier's guide dated around nineteen months before this research, which is the thinnest evidence base of any page here. They are published because no better UK source was found, not because they are reliable.
Every figure on this page is seller-published, including the new-price and hire-rate benchmarks.
Per-square-metre figures normally exclude processing, structure, spares and installation.
Pixel pitch, brightness and run hours move the real number far more than these ranges suggest, and none of the sources breaks figures down by them.

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