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Surplus market report: week of October 19, 2026
October 19 - October 25, 2026. 21,668 U.S. government surplus lots finished bidding, -10% on the week before, at a median winning bid of $62. Of the lots whose outcome we re-checked after close, 79.2% sold.
Lots closed
21,668
-10%
Median winning bid
$62
all categories
Sell-through
79.2%
Total closing value
$22,851,530
Vehicles carried the week on volume with 4,267 lots closed at a median of $2,054, and it was also the most contested: a lot that drew bids drew a median of 26 of them.
Volume, median close and sell-through by category
| Category | Closed | Median | vs. prior week | Sell-through | Median bids |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicles | 4,267 | $2,054 | -12% | 97% | 26 |
| Furniture | 2,592 | $10 | flat | 60.4% | 3 |
| Electronics | 2,441 | $62 | +22% | 87.8% | 8 |
| Real Estate | 1,955 | $46,750 | +197% | — | 14 |
| Tools | 1,436 | $56 | -19% | 88.6% | 8 |
| Military | 832 | $110 | +22% | — | 8 |
| Equipment | 646 | $675 | -34% | 91.9% | 21 |
| Jewelry | 452 | $79 | +58% | 88.4% | 17 |
| Medical | 403 | $52 | -24% | 71.7% | 5 |
| Collectibles | 382 | $80 | +60% | 81.8% | 8 |
| Sporting | 314 | $50 | +11% | 69.5% | 5 |
| Appliances | 191 | $40 | -5% | 86.1% | 7 |
| Catering | 167 | $110 | +34% | 86% | 7 |
| Janitorial | 130 | $40 | flat | 85.9% | 9 |
| Materials | 50 | $45 | -76% | — | 3 |
| Art & Decor | 47 | $10 | -52% | — | 2 |
Notable lots this week
Highest close of the week
Approx. 4.75 Acres of Heavy Industrial Land in Spokane, WashingtonClosed at $930,000 in WA. Real Estate.
Also notable
HUD Home — 137 E Hunting Ridge Rd, Stamford, CT 06903Closed at $650,000 in CT. Real Estate.
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Methodology: counts every U.S. lot in our index that finished bidding between 2026-10-19 and 2026-10-26 (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 October 26, 2026 and frozen.
For the always-current view, see the Surplus Market Report and the Surplus Price Index, or browse live auctions.