GovAuctions Research · Week of
Surplus market report: week of September 21, 2026
September 21 - September 27, 2026. 16,497 U.S. government surplus lots finished bidding, -3% on the week before, at a median winning bid of $102. Of the lots whose outcome we re-checked after close, 78% sold.
Lots closed
16,497
-3%
Median winning bid
$102
all categories
Sell-through
78%
Total closing value
$18,912,389
Vehicles carried the week on volume with 2,571 lots closed at a median of $2,600, and it was also the most contested: a lot that drew bids drew a median of 32 of them.
Volume, median close and sell-through by category
| Category | Closed | Median | vs. prior week | Sell-through | Median bids |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicles | 2,571 | $2,600 | +27% | 95.7% | 32 |
| Electronics | 2,197 | $92 | +23% | 86.8% | 12 |
| Furniture | 2,079 | $10 | -17% | 59% | 3 |
| Tools | 1,142 | $95 | -5% | 83.4% | 12 |
| Real Estate | 1,070 | $35,600 | +409% | — | 2 |
| Military | 947 | $113 | -29% | — | 3 |
| Equipment | 535 | $1,070 | +16% | 93.6% | 24 |
| Medical | 328 | $56 | -28% | 67.3% | 7 |
| Jewelry | 312 | $194 | -8% | 88.6% | 20 |
| Collectibles | 292 | $176 | +14% | 89.7% | 15 |
| Sporting | 269 | $55 | flat | 82.2% | 10 |
| Catering | 154 | $92 | -23% | 84.7% | 6 |
| Appliances | 150 | $51 | -9% | 81.3% | 7 |
| Janitorial | 82 | $59 | +40% | 77.8% | 9 |
| Art & Decor | 75 | $69 | -51% | — | 7 |
| Materials | 39 | $37 | — | — | 9 |
Notable lots this week
Most contested lot
Large Lot Of Scrap beams, sheet metal and etc.Closed at $2,575 after 178 bids in KY. Other.
Highest close of the week
HUD Home — 11320 Edinburgh Dr, Laurinburg, NC 28352Closed at $302,000 in NC. Real Estate.
Free to cite with attribution
These figures are fixed for this week and will not change. Please credit GovAuctions and link back:
GovAuctions - Surplus market report: week of September 21, 2026 - https://govauctions.app/reports/week-2026-09-21
Methodology: counts every U.S. lot in our index that finished bidding between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-28 (UTC). Median is the median final winning bid among lots that closed with a bid. The all-category median moves with the mix of what happened to close that week, not with prices, so week-over-week movement is shown per category, where it compares like with like. Sell-through is the share of lots that sold, counted only where we re-checked the outcome after the auction closed, since a pre-close reading undercounts last-minute bids; weeks before that check existed report no sell-through rather than an understated one. A category needs 30 closed lots to appear and 50 re-checked lots to show a sell-through. Uncategorized lots are counted in the totals but not the table. This is a sample of the platforms we index, not the entire government-auction universe. Built September 28, 2026 and frozen.
For the always-current view, see the Surplus Market Report and the Surplus Price Index, or browse live auctions.