market value

market value (plural market values)

1. (finance) The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
   • 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:

     Yet when a commuter fare increase is made, the volume of protest from passengers is astonishing; some even accuse the railways of robbing suburbanites, for any increase in fares takes hundreds of dollars from the market value of suburban homes.

• fair market value
• sexual market value

• book value
• market price