UK home lift manufacturers mostly do not publish their prices. We checked all nine brands sold in the UK on 20 August 2026. Four publish a figure of some kind. Two publish nothing at all. One publishes its price in the wrong currency. One contradicts itself by £1,000 on its own website. This page records what every publisher in the market actually had on their site on the day we looked, with the quote and the link, so you can check it yourself.
The headline finding
Manufacturers quote higher than their own dealers. Stiltz publishes “from £17,000 excluding VAT” on its own site. Dealers selling the same Stiltz lifts publish £14,000 and £14,800.
The same pattern runs across the market: the brand’s own “from” price is routinely £2,000 to £5,000 above what the people who actually fit the lift are advertising. If you take a manufacturer’s headline figure as the market rate, you start your negotiation from the wrong number.
95 published prices, 34 publishers, captured 20 August 2026. Updated monthly, with a change log showing the old figure, the new figure and the date. How we collected this · Download the dataset
Does each brand publish its own prices?
This is the question that matters most and the one nobody answers. Nine brands, checked on their own UK websites on 20 August 2026.
| Brand | Owner | Publishes own price? | What the site actually says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stiltz source ↗ | Stiltz Group | Yes — range only | “Stiltz Home Lifts start from £17,000 (excluding VAT).” No per-model prices. |
| Lifton source ↗ | Stiltz Group (sister brand) | Yes — buried in an FAQ | “the Lifton Home Lift starts from £18,000 plus VAT”. Its actual prices page gives competitors’ figures and not its own. prices page ↗ |
| Uplifts (Stannah) source ↗ | Stannah Group | Yes — per model, inconsistently | Two pages on the same site give four different figures. See the contradictions log below. |
| Cibes source ↗ | Cibes Lift Group | Partially — one model of five | Cibes Air “from £19,000… exclusive of VAT”. Cloud Plus, C1 Pure and A4000 carry no figure on their product pages. |
| Companion source ↗ | Companion (Savaria reseller) | Yes — range only | “the average total costs range from £14,000 to £19,000 (excluding VAT)”. No date anywhere on the page. |
| Aritco source ↗ | Aritco Lift AB (Sweden) | Partially — and in the wrong currency | The identical sentence appears as “£22.000” on one page and “€22.000” on another. Its UK price guide is priced only in Swedish Krona. price guide ↗ |
| Terry Lifts source ↗ | Terry Group | No | Has a page titled “How much does a Harmony FE lift cost?” that contains no number. “We offer a free, no obligation survey of your home.” |
| Wessex source ↗ | Wessex Lift Co (Romsey) | No | Its only cost page is from 2018 and says lifts cost “from only a few thousand pounds upwards”. 2018 page ↗ |
| SWIFT source ↗ | SWIFT Lifts | Could not be checked | Every content page returns “Javascript is required.” We record this as unverified rather than guess. |
Four of nine publish a usable figure. Terry and Wessex publish nothing. Both route you to a free survey instead — their right, but it means no buyer can compare them without handing over their contact details first.
Every price published by a manufacturer
Figures exactly as written on the brand’s own site. Nothing converted, rounded or normalised — including the VAT basis, which several brands do not state.
| Brand | Model | As published | VAT basis | What’s included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stiltz | Range (all models) | From £17,000 source ↗ | excluding VAT | Lift, delivery, installation, 12-month warranty |
| Stiltz | Duo Classic (from its finance table) | £18,950 cash price source ↗ | ex VAT | Installed |
| Lifton | Lifton Home Lift | From £18,000 source ↗ | plus VAT | All standard site preparation and installation |
| Uplifts (Stannah) | S2 | £17,995 and £18,995 a ↗ b ↗ | stated on one page, not the other | Installed incl. aperture cut and power connection |
| Uplifts (Stannah) | S3 | £19,500 and £19,995 a ↗ b ↗ | as above | Installed |
| Stannah Lifts | Through-floor home lifts | From £15,000 source ↗ | not stated | Including building works |
| Cibes | Cibes Air | From £19,000 source ↗ | exclusive of VAT | Basic model offering |
| Cibes | A5000 | upwards of £18,000 source ↗ | not stated | Installed |
| Aritco | Smallest model, two floors | around £22.000 (sic) source ↗ | not stated | “Standard fitting” — scope not defined |
| Companion | Luma, Cygnus, Aurora, Stratus | £14,000 to £19,000 source ↗ | excluding VAT | Total cost including building work |
| Terry Lifts | Harmony, Harmony FE, Lifestyle, Affinity | Nothing published for any model. | ||
| Wessex | VM, VE | Nothing published for any model. | ||
The contradictions log
Every one of these was live on 20 August 2026. These are not our interpretations — they are two figures from the same source, and we link to both.
| Who | The contradiction | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| Uplifts (Stannah) | Its homelifts page says the S2 is £17,995 and the S3 £19,500. Its FAQ page says the S2 is £18,995 and the S3 £19,995. Same website, same day. homelifts page ↗ FAQ page ↗ | £1,000 on the S2, £495 on the S3 |
| Stannah Group | A sister Stannah site advertises through-floor lifts “from £15,000 including building works” — below every Uplifts figure, which include only basic site prep. sister site ↗ | £2,995 below the cheapest Uplifts price |
| Aritco | The identical sentence about its smallest model appears as “£22.000” on the products page and “€22.000” in the FAQ. products ↗ FAQ ↗ | A currency — roughly £3,600 at current rates |
| Stiltz | Its FAQ says “a personalized quotation is provided based on a full site survey” — while the finance table on that same page shows a £18,950 cash price for a Duo Classic. FAQ ↗ | £1,950 above its own “from” price |
| Cibes | The Cibes Air model page says “from £19,000”. A Cibes blog post says the Air “can exceed £50,000 – £60,000”. model page ↗ blog post ↗ | Up to £41,000 |
| Checkatrade | The article header reads “Last updated: 11 July 2023”. The price table on the same page reads “Last updated: May 2024”. the page ↗ | Ten months apart, and both stale |
| Lifton | Its home lift prices page quotes the ranges of hydraulic, traction and vacuum lifts made by other companies, but not its own. prices page ↗ | Its own price sits in the FAQ instead |
What manufacturers charge versus what dealers advertise
This is the part worth taking into a quote. Where both the manufacturer and its dealers publish figures, the dealer numbers are consistently lower.
| Brand | Manufacturer’s own price | Lowest dealer price published | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stiltz | From £17,000 ex VAT | £14,000 inc VAT (My Mobility UK, Duo+) listing ↗; £14,800 (Morgan Ellis) source ↗ | £3,000 at least |
| Wessex | Nothing published | £13,000 — VM through-floor, one person, Feb 2026 1st Choice ↗ | Only the dealer will tell you |
| Aritco | Around £22,000, smallest model | £22,500, HomeLift Compact Morgan Ellis ↗ | Broadly consistent |
| Terry Lifts | Nothing published | £10,000–£30,000 band, from a directory rather than a dealer MyBuilder ↗ | No dealer publishes one |
The cheapest genuine new home lift price published anywhere in the UK right now is £12,000 — 1st Choice Home Lifts, for their own Classic and Compact range, “including building works”, on an undated page source ↗. The cheapest dated figure is £13,000 for a one-person Wessex VM through-floor lift, published 24 February 2026 source ↗. Treat anything advertised below £12,000 for a new installed home lift with suspicion — it is usually a platform or step lift, which is a different product.
What the market publishes, by lift type
The lowest and highest figure any UK publisher had live for each type on 20 August 2026. The spread is the interesting column: it shows where the market agrees and where it does not.
| Lift type | Lowest published | Highest published | Spread across publishers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Through-floor | £12,000 | £35,000 | £23,000 — the widest disagreement in the market |
| Hydraulic | £23,000 | £45,000 | £22,000 |
| Traction | £28,000 | £40,000+ | £12,000 — the most agreed-upon type |
| Vacuum / pneumatic | £23,000 | £60,000 | £37,000 |
| Platform lift (not a home lift) | £10,000 | £30,000 | Frequently mis-sold as a home lift price |
| Annual servicing | £150/yr | £750/yr | A five-fold difference for the same job |
The second-hand market, live listings
Captured 20 August 2026. This is a sample, not a census — some marketplace pages cannot be enumerated automatically.
| Seller | Type | Lift | Asking | Supply or installed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Only Lifts listing ↗ | Trade | Stiltz Duo Classic | £10,950 | Not specified |
| Only Lifts listing ↗ | Trade | Stiltz Duo | £9,500 | Installation offered |
| Gemma listing ↗ | Private | Stiltz Duo Vista | £5,000–£6,995 (bought at £16,895 ex VAT) | Buyer arranges removal |
| Albion Stairlift Spares listing ↗ | Trade | Wessex VM36 (ex-DFG, never used) | £5,000 | Supply only |
| Kate listing ↗ | Private | Terry Harmony | £3,500 | Supply only |
| sa_sa69 listing ↗ | Trade | Terry Harmony | £3,000 | Removal and reinstallation offered |
| Scott listing ↗ | Private | Stiltz Duo Classic | £1,500 | Not specified |
The trade-versus-private gap is the story here. Dealers ask £9,500 to £11,000 for a reconditioned Stiltz with a warranty. Private sellers with the same lift sitting in their house are asking £1,500 to £7,000, because they need it gone and the buyer carries the removal and reinstallation cost. One Stiltz Duo Vista bought at £16,895 ex VAT is on the market at £5,000.
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How we collected this
Each row records what a publisher’s own website showed on 20 August 2026. We visited every source directly rather than relying on aggregators, and recorded each figure exactly as written, alongside a verbatim quote and the URL it came from.
- We do not normalise. Where a brand does not say whether a price includes VAT, we record “not stated” rather than assuming. Home lifts supplied to a disabled person are usually zero-rated, which brings the ex-VAT and inc-VAT figures much closer together than they look — but only if you qualify.
- We separate platform lifts from home lifts. A platform or step lift is a different product at a different price, and quoting one as the other is the most common way a “cheap home lift” headline gets manufactured.
- We record failures. Where a site could not be read, we say so rather than guessing. Nothing on this page is inferred.
- We are independent and take no commission from any manufacturer.
Known gaps. SWIFT Lifts publishes behind a JavaScript wall we do not attempt to bypass, so none of its prices appear here. DHG Services blocks automated access entirely, so none of its figures appear either. Facebook Marketplace and some eBay category pages could not be enumerated, so the used-listing table is a sample rather than a full picture.
Download the dataset
All 95 datapoints as a CSV: publisher, brand, model, the figure as published, VAT basis, what the price includes, the verbatim quote, the date shown on the page, and the source URL. Free to use and cite — a link back to this page is all we ask.
The full dataset is available on request while we finish preparing the download — ask us for it and we will send the CSV.
Change log
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 Aug 2026 | First capture. 95 prices from 34 publishers across manufacturers, dealers, trades directories, a charity database, two councils and the second-hand market. |
Last captured 20 August 2026. Next scheduled capture: September 2026. If you publish home lift prices and we have recorded yours incorrectly, tell us and we will correct it and log the change.
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