Where GovAuctions gets its listings

state and local government surplus · Tiered buyer's premium 7.5–12.5% (median ~10%)

GovDeals is the largest marketplace for state and local government surplus in the U.S. - owned by Liquidity Services (NASDAQ: LQDT). Sellers include cities, counties, school districts, transit agencies, and statewide departments. Each selling agency sets the buyer's premium at 5%, 7.5%, 10% or 12.5%, and a 30+ day probation for first-time buyers caps purchases at $1,000.

police-seized and unclaimed property · No buyer's premium on most lots; 10-15% on capital assets

PropertyRoom is the dominant online auction outlet for US law enforcement surplus - seized, forfeited, and unclaimed property from police departments, sheriff's offices, and state agencies. The catalog runs heavy on jewelry, electronics, bikes, firearms, and the occasional seized vehicle. Most items ship from regional warehouses; vehicles require pickup at the seizing agency. Most lots carry no buyer's premium at all - where one applies it is 10%, 12%, or 15%, and it lands on capital assets like vehicles, boats, and heavy machinery. Check the listing, which discloses it before you bid.

government fleet, vehicle, and utility-equipment surplus · Buyer's premium varies by sale (stated on each lot)

J.J. Kane Auctioneers runs regional timed auctions of fleet and utility equipment across the country. It is a mixed marketplace, so we list only its government-consigned lots - city, county, state, sheriff and school-district fleet, transit-authority vehicles, and municipally-owned utility equipment - filtered out of its much larger private mix of investor-owned utility, telecom, and rental-fleet consignments. Expect bucket trucks, digger derricks, service and pickup trucks, vans, and police-evidence property, with strong California and Florida coverage. Lots are picked up at the selling agency's location, not at the auction's Alabama headquarters.

state and local government surplus · Buyer's premium 0–10%, set per seller (median ~7%)

Public Surplus serves smaller cities, counties, school districts, and volunteer fire departments. Inventory overlaps with GovDeals on roughly 5–15% of items but Public Surplus often runs lower buyer's premiums - some sellers absorb the premium entirely. The interface is more basic; search is less polished than GovDeals.

government fleet, equipment, and vehicle surplus · Capped internet buyer's fee (set per lot)

Purple Wave is a no-reserve online auction marketplace strong in the Midwest and Plains, and a major outlet for government surplus from cities, counties, state DOTs, school districts, and municipal road/fire departments. We list only its government-consigned lots - fleet pickups and vehicles, construction and ag equipment, trailers, and shop tools - filtered out of its broader mix of private contractor and farm consignments. Each lot is a timed auction with pickup at the selling agency.

county sheriff-sale & tax-sale real estate · Deposit required; terms set per county sale

CivilView (salesweb.civilview.com), a Tyler Technologies "SalesWeb" service, is the public listing site county sheriff's and constable's offices use to publish real-property sales - court-ordered mortgage-foreclosure sheriff sales, county tax-collection sales, and Texas constable sales. Every listing is a government sale published by the county; there is no private or MLS inventory. Coverage is densest in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with more counties across other states. Listings are legal notices (address, case, plaintiff/defendant, sale date, and opening/upset amount) rather than photo catalogs, and bidding happens at the county's scheduled sheriff sale under terms - deposit, redemption period, payment window - set per county.

Texas county property-tax foreclosure sale parcels · No buyer's premium listed; terms set per county sale

Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP is the delinquent-tax law firm for many Texas counties, cities and school districts, and publishes the parcels its clients take to tax sale on a public map at taxsales.lgbs.com. Every listing is a Texas county tax sale of a single parcel under a court judgment for unpaid property taxes, held as a sheriff's or constable's sale on the first Tuesday of the month, either in person at the county or online (on sites such as sheriffsaleauctions.com, realforeclose.com or GovEase). The list gives the address, tax account and cause numbers, the adjudged value and an estimated minimum bid. Resales re-offer struck-off parcels that drew no bid at an earlier sale. Property is sold as is, and the former owner may have a right to redeem after the sale, so check each county's terms before bidding. We also list two kinds of undated parcel from the same map: struck-off property, which drew no bid at an earlier sale and can be bought from the taxing units, and parcels under judgment that are waiting to be set for a sale. Texas only.

Mississippi state-held tax-forfeited land, sold on application · No buyer's premium; the state quotes a price after an application

In Mississippi, land sold at a county tax sale and not redeemed within the redemption period forfeits to the state, and the Secretary of State's Public Lands Division sells it from a standing statewide inventory at sos.ms.gov. It is not an auction: a buyer files an application online, the county tax assessor certifies a current market value, and the state quotes a price (for most parcels the higher of half that value or the taxes and fees owed), which the buyer can accept or decline. Title passes by a land patent signed by the Governor and the Secretary of State, usually 60 to 90 days after the application. The inventory lists the address, parcel number, legal description and the assessor's last reported market value. Parcels are often vacant lots or houses in poor repair and are sold as is. We list parcels with a street address.

military and federal-disposition surplus · Tiered buyer's premium ~10%

GovPlanet, operated by Ritchie Bros / IronPlanet, sells military and federal-agency surplus - Humvees, MRAPs, generators, aircraft parts, body armor, and rolling stock from DLA Disposition Services and the armed services. Lots are inspected and rated, and the catalog overlaps heavily with what used to sell through GovLiquidation. Buyer's premium runs around 10% and pickup is at consignor locations.

retired federal fleet cars, trucks, vans and buses · Buyer's fee is set by the auction venue running the sale

GSA Fleet Vehicle Sales is how the U.S. General Services Administration retires the federal motor pool - the sedans, pickups, SUVs, passenger vans and shuttle buses that agencies drove until GSA rotated them out. It is a separate channel from GSA Auctions, which handles general federal surplus: everything here is a titled vehicle with a VIN, an odometer reading and a published inspection window. Sales run through commercial auction venues (IAA, IronPlanet and regional auto auctions), so the pickup address is the vehicle's own site rather than a GSA facility, and most sales are multi-location - each vehicle in one sale can sit in a different state. Bidding happens on the GSA Fleet auction system linked from each listing; bid amounts are not published before the sale.

federal REO (foreclosed) real estate · No buyer's premium (fixed-price listings)

Fannie Mae HomePath is the federal government-sponsored enterprise's marketplace for REO (real-estate owned) homes - single-family houses, condos, and land that Fannie Mae acquired through foreclosure. Listings are fixed-price (not auctions) and sold as-is across all 50 states; owner-occupant buyers get a First Look window and possible down-payment assistance before investors can bid. It's one of the largest sources of government-held residential property in the country.

federal government surplus · No buyer's premium

GSA Auctions (gsaauctions.gov) is the official U.S. General Services Administration platform for federal government surplus. Inventory comes from federal agencies disposing of vehicles, electronics, real property, and seized assets. GSA does not charge a buyer's premium - you pay your winning bid plus any state taxes.

Colorado state, county and city fleet, surplus and police evidence · 13% buyer's premium (10% if paying cash, wire or cashier's check)

Roller Auctions is the Denver auction company that holds the public online sales for Colorado public bodies: the state fleet, Denver-area cities and counties and police departments sell through it rather than through GovDeals. Two kinds of government sale repeat through the year. The fleet sale, about every two months, carries pickups, police SUVs, dump and plow trucks, ambulances, mowers and heavy equipment. The monthly general-surplus sale carries computers and office furniture, shop tools, bicycles, exercise equipment and police evidence. Lots close on a stagger rather than all at once, and everything is picked up by appointment at Roller's yard at 7500 York Street during the sale's removal days. GovAuctions.app lists only the government sales; Roller's private consignments, factory returns and dealer equipment are excluded.

federal FHA-foreclosed homes · No buyer's premium

HUD HomeStore is the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's marketplace for FHA-insured foreclosed homes, sold as-is with an owner-occupant priority window before investors can bid.

Wisconsin state, county, city, school-district and utility surplus · Buyer's premium set per sale (stated in each sale's terms)

Wisconsin Surplus Online Auction is the Madison-based auction service that sells surplus for the State of Wisconsin itself alongside Wisconsin counties, cities, villages, school districts and municipal utilities, plus the occasional Minnesota or Illinois public body. It runs its own platform rather than listing on GovDeals, so these lots appear nowhere else we index. Sales are multi-consignor and often multi-location - one school-district auction can pool six towns - so each lot carries its own pickup city, and lots close on a stagger of about one per minute rather than all at once. Expect municipal fleet, plant and mowers, school furniture, shop and kitchen equipment, and police-seized property. GovAuctions.app lists only the municipal side of their catalogue; their general-public, firearms and collectables sales are excluded.

Indiana county tax-sale, certificate & sheriff-sale parcels, plus LA sheriff and TN tax sales · Registration required; terms set per county sale

SRI Incorporated (sriservices.com) is the firm most of Indiana's 92 counties use to run their annual tax sale, along with the commissioners' certificate sales that re-offer parcels that did not sell. Every listing is a county government sale of a single parcel: the county's published list gives the address, parcel number, owner of record, legal description and minimum bid. The winning bidder receives a tax sale certificate, not a deed; the owner can redeem, generally within one year of a tax sale or 120 days of a certificate sale, and an unredeemed certificate holder must petition the court for a tax deed. Sales run in person at the county or online at zeusauction.com, mostly in a fall wave (tax sales) and a spring wave (certificate sales). SRI also publishes Indiana county sheriff sales (court-ordered foreclosure sales, listed with the cause number, plaintiff, defendant and judgment amount, and often postponed or cancelled before the sale date), Louisiana parish sheriff sales, and the Shelby County, Tennessee delinquent tax sale, where the owner keeps a statutory right of redemption.

small-town municipal surplus · No buyer's premium (paid by seller)

Municibid focuses on small-town and rural municipal sellers - borough councils, township public works, volunteer fire companies, and small school districts that don't have the volume to justify a GovDeals contract. Inventory skews toward fire and public-works equipment (used fire trucks, brush trucks, backhoes, plow trucks) and confiscated/decommissioned police gear. Sellers pay a listing fee, and the winning bidder pays a buyer's fee on top of the hammer price - 9% up to $99,999.99, then 6% to $499,999.99 and 4% above that - charged to the card on file when the auction closes and paid separately from what you pay the selling agency.

Freddie Mac REO foreclosed homes · No buyer's premium (fixed-price REO; offers via agent)

HomeSteps is Freddie Mac's brand for its REO (real-estate owned) inventory - homes Freddie Mac has taken back through foreclosure and resells. It is the sibling of Fannie Mae HomePath and HUD HomeStore, completing the federal-REO picture. Listings are fixed-price (not auctions); buyers submit offers through a licensed real-estate agent. Freddie Mac is a government-sponsored enterprise under FHFA conservatorship, so the inventory is federal-adjacent and distinct from the foreclosure homes sold by HUD and Fannie Mae.

county tax-defaulted, sheriff, and federal forfeiture real estate · Deposit required; fees vary by county sale

Bid4Assets, owned by Liquidity Services (the same company behind GovDeals), is the dominant marketplace for county-government real-property auctions in the U.S. - tax-defaulted ("tax sale") properties from county treasurers and tax collectors, sheriff-sale foreclosures, judicial sales, and federal (U.S. Marshals) forfeiture. Every listing is a government sale; there is no private or MLS inventory. Most sales require a refundable deposit to bid, and terms (premiums, redemption periods, payment windows) are set per county.

Minnesota state, county, city, school-district and university surplus plus tax-forfeited land · No buyer's premium

MNBid is the Minnesota Department of Administration's Surplus Services auction site. Despite being state-run it is not state-only: counties, cities, school districts and universities consign through it too, alongside state fleet vehicles, equipment and tax-forfeited land parcels. Every lot names the public body it is sold on behalf of and publishes the full pickup address, and the bid count shown is the real tally. Lots are sold as-is, where-is and are pickup only; MNBid sets no site-wide removal deadline, so the lot's own terms and the contact named on its page govern collection. GovAuctions.app indexes MNBid at the invitation of Minnesota's Surplus Services office.

Delaware state and New Jersey county, city and police surplus · Set per sale; some New Jersey sales add an internet service fee

USGovBid is the online auction site run by Auction Liquidation Services of Tinton Falls, NJ. It holds the State of Delaware's year-round surplus sales and sells vehicles and equipment by order of New Jersey counties, townships and police departments. Each lot names the public body selling it and its own pickup yard, and the buyer's fee is set per sale in that sale's terms rather than site-wide. None of its sales appear on GovDeals or Public Surplus.

Illinois state government surplus · No buyer's premium

iBid is the State of Illinois Central Management Services surplus auction site - state vehicles, equipment, electronics, and office property sold directly by the state. Pickup is at the Illinois State Surplus warehouse by appointment, within about ten days of the sale closing.

State of Utah surplus · No buyer's premium

Utah State Surplus is the State of Utah's own online auction site, run by the Division of Purchasing's Surplus Property program in Taylorsville. It sells retired state vehicles, office furniture, computers, shop and kitchen equipment and confiscated items. Every lot is credited to the state program: pickup is at the state warehouse or at the agency that owned the item. GovAuctions.app lists its timed auctions; its fixed-price buy-now items and the lots restricted to eligible public bodies are not included.

U.S. Marshals and U.S. Treasury seized & forfeited personal property · Buyer's premium set per lot on the auction site

Apple Auctioneering Co. is the national contractor that liquidates seized and forfeited personal property for the U.S. Marshals Service (across its 84 districts) and the U.S. Treasury's asset-forfeiture program. Bidding runs on HiBid under the Apple Towing Co account. Inventory is dominated by seized vehicles - cars, motorcycles, semi-trucks, trailers, and boats - forfeited in federal criminal and civil cases, sold as-is with prompt removal required. It is distinct from the USMS real-estate forfeitures sold on Bid4Assets and the Treasury real property sold by CWS Marketing: this is the federal seized-vehicle and personal-property channel.

Michigan state government surplus · No buyer's premium

MiBid is the State of Michigan's DTMB surplus auction platform - decommissioned state vehicles, equipment, and office property sold directly by the state. Pickup is in Michigan at the location named on the lot; payment and collection instructions are on mibid.state.mi.us.

federal real property (homes, commercial buildings, land) · No buyer's premium

GSA Real Estate Sales (realestatesales.gov) is the U.S. General Services Administration's platform for surplus federal REAL property - single-family homes, commercial buildings, and land/lots disposed of by federal agencies. It is a separate platform from GSA Auctions (gsaauctions.gov), which handles personal property; there is no inventory overlap. Sales run as online or sealed-bid auctions, volumes are low but values high (tens of thousands to over a million dollars), and there is no buyer's premium. Each sale sets its own deposit, due-diligence, and closing terms on the official listing.