Release AU-2026-10 · frozen 2026-10-01
Government Surplus Price Index: October 2026
The median AU government surplus lot sold for $150. Across 57,225 completed AU government auction lots in the 365 days to 2026-10-01.
These figures are frozen. They will not change, so a citation to this page will still be checkable next year. The live, daily-updated version is at the index page.
| Category | Median | Middle half | Lots |
|---|---|---|---|
| electronics lots20% of these lots cleared at exactly A$9, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $29 | $14 – $89 | 20,930 |
| heavy equipment lots | $1,950 | $1,045 – $4,565 | 15,073 |
| industrial tools lots24% of these lots cleared at exactly A$9, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $69 | $10 – $469 | 9,260 |
| vehicles | $3,550 | $909 – $10,300 | 8,801 |
| office furniture lots23% of these lots cleared at exactly A$9, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $53 | $10 – $1,375 | 1,502 |
| medical and scientific lots39% of these lots cleared at exactly A$9, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $24 | $9 – $96 | 1,044 |
| building materials lots36% of these lots cleared at exactly A$3,025, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $3,025 | $29 – $3,025 | 243 |
| jewelry lots30% of these lots cleared at exactly A$9, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $79 | $9 – $260 | 107 |
No movement figures in this release, deliberately
Levels only. Month-over-month and region-versus-region movement is withheld until the corpus has six or more complete months: with a shorter series, a change in a category median is dominated by a change in what was in the basket, and by flat-rate disposal lots whose price is an administrative convention. Each category's `modePrice`/`modeShare` shows how much of that contamination it carries.
Machine-readable: /data/price-index-releases/AU-2026-10.json
Spreadsheet: Download CSV (one row per category, with source and licence on every row)
Method: how this index is built
Changelog: Release 2 for this market. Levels only; no movement figures published.
Other AU releases
- AU-2026-09 · September 2026 · median $118
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In the AU-2026-10 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median AU government surplus lot sold for $150.
- Sample
- 57,225 lots
- As of
- 2026-10-01
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
Method. Median final sale price across every completed AU government surplus lot recorded in the 365 days to 2026-10-01, all categories pooled. Figures are frozen at publication and do not change.
Cite as. GovAuctions.app (2026). In the AU-2026-10 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median AU government surplus lot sold for $150. https://govauctions.app/research/surplus-price-index/au-2026-10
Free to use with attribution. The machine-readable version of this and every other number we publish, each with its sample size and method, is at /research/facts.json. Questions about the data are welcome via contact.