Sell your car in Concord: running, wrecked or with a title problem
Need to sell your car in Concord, NH, and the title isn't simple? Lost title, old lien, odd paperwork: tell us what you have, and we'll help you get it sorted and get you paid. When it's time to register the next car, the city's own registration desk and the NH DMV are both here in the capital.
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Selling while a title is being fixed
- Start the fix. Lost title, or a lien from a loan you paid off years ago? Our guides to selling without a title and selling with a loan cover what the state asks for.
- Get the offer now, pick up later. You can agree on a price and book pickup around the replacement title’s arrival. If the car waits on the street, check the city’s paving list: streets on the 2026-27 list, such as Horse Hill Road and Wilson Avenue, lose parking from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the work.
- Close when the title is in hand. Once you have it, things move fast, and the sale closes when you hand the title over at pickup.
Where we pick up around Concord
We pick up across Concord (03301) and Penacook (03303), and in Bow (03304), the largest town on the route. Pickups also run to Pembroke and Suncook, Hopkinton and Contoocook, Boscawen, Loudon, Canterbury, Epsom and Allenstown, village roads included. A long dirt driveway is fine if a truck can reach the car; a snowed-in one means picking another day. If the car sits at a camp or down a back lot, mention it so the driver knows.
Car on the street until pickup? Sign up for parking-ban alerts in the city’s Notify Me service. Winter bans run midnight to 7 a.m. In Penacook, you can park overnight in the Canal Street or Tanner Street municipal lots; downtown, the School Street, State Street and Storrs Street garages take cars overnight. On narrow streets, emergency no-parking signs go up by noon the day before crews haul snow.
Which Concord office does what
New Hampshire handles registrations through your town or city clerk. In Concord, that desk is the Collections Office in City Hall at 41 Green Street. The office called City Clerk runs elections, vital records and City Council business, not cars. Because the city is a Municipal Agent of the state, Collections can finish most transactions in one visit, with one check, for a $3 agent fee per registration.
The NH DMV is on Hazen Drive, off Loudon Road. Doing the state part there skips the $3 fee, but you have to pay the city’s part at Collections first. A buyer who needs a temporary registration has to get it from a state DMV office; City Hall doesn’t issue them (City of Concord FAQ).
Cash for your car in Concord
A dead car in the driveway can put you on the wrong side of city code. Concord’s zoning ordinance says that anywhere in the city, a car without a current, valid plate may be kept only in an enclosed building, a sales lot or a recycling center (Section 28-7-16). The city’s property maintenance code adds that no vehicle may sit in major disrepair or be stripped or dismantled on any property, and a major overhaul has to happen inside a structure (Section 302.8, as amended).
So if your car is old, wrecked or won’t start and its registration has run out, selling it clears the problem. Looking for cash for junk cars in Concord? The same offer covers them; here’s how a junk car sale goes.
Concord's code wants a major overhaul done inside a building, so if the engine blew or the transmission is failing and you have no garage, selling a car with a blown engine and selling a car with a failing transmission weigh the repair against selling the car as it is. For a wrecked car, selling a damaged car explains what a buyer prices and what you have to disclose.
How long a car can sit on a Concord street
- •48 consecutive hours in the same spot, in any season. Overnight is fine except during a declared ban (Parking Bans)
- •After 24 hours parked in violation, the city code counts a car as abandoned, and police can have it towed (Section 17-1-16, 19-1-5)
- •Towed during a ban: a $200 tow fee (the $50 ticket is waived), an $80 gate fee outside 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and $70 a day storage after the first 24 hours (Parking Bans)
Asked by Concord sellers
My car was towed during a Concord parking ban. How do I get it back?
Call the Police Department's Parking Division at 603-225-8640 on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or 603-225-8600 after hours. Then go to the police station at 35 Green Street with photo ID for a vehicle release form. The city uses a rotating list of towing companies, so the form tells you where the car is, and you pay the tow company when you collect it. The department's new headquarters at 4 Bouton Street is scheduled for completion in fall 2027, so check the address after that.
My car has a stack of unpaid Concord parking tickets. Could it be booted before I sell it?
It could. Five unpaid citations, or more than $100 owed, makes a car subject to impoundment, and a booted car left unpaid for 24 hours gets towed. To get it back, you pay every fine plus a $100 impoundment fee, in cash or by cashier's check. Call the Parking Division early: you may qualify for a six-month, interest-free payment plan, but only before the car is impounded.
Can a car that won't start sit in my downtown garage permit space until pickup?
Not for long. A City garage or lot permit doesn't cover storing a vehicle. Parked cars have to move every 48 hours unless the City Manager or a designee approves it in advance, under Section 18-5-6 of the city code.
I sold my car soon after renewing in Concord. Can I get the city's share back?
Usually not. State law (RSA 261:151) bars refunds of permit fees, but the city's FAQ describes two ways back. If you return the registration, decals still attached, to the NH DMV and the state agrees to refund its part, bring a copy of the state's check to Collections, and the city can refund its part. And if you paid the city but never finished at the state, or the car never went on the road, bring the original registration back within 90 days.
Replacing a lost title, clearing a lien and signing the title over follow state rules, and our New Hampshire page walks through them.