The State of Secondary Sales in America: What 85,000 Listings Show

FindA.Sale maintains a continuously refreshed index of secondary-market sales across the United States: estate sales, yard and garage sales, auctions, flea markets, and resale or consignment shops. As of early July 2026 that index holds 85,602 sale listings, and it updates as sales open and close every week.

Most coverage of this market runs on anecdote. This report runs on the index itself. Every number below comes from a direct count of the FindA.Sale listings index, pulled July 2026. It reflects the sales we index, not the entire US market, and the methodology section at the end explains exactly what was counted.

The headline numbers

• 85,602 sale listings in the index, with 15,711 live at the time of the count
• 83,366 listings in the United States, plus 2,236 in Canada
• 76,476 US event-style sales: estate sales, yard sales, auctions, and flea market events
• 8,789 resale, consignment, and other permanent secondhand venues tracked separately
• Coverage across all 50 states plus Washington DC, in 8,875 distinct city and state combinations

Among the 76,476 US event listings, the mix breaks down like this:

• Yard and garage sales: 38,007 listings (49.7 percent)
• Estate sales: 32,278 listings (42.2 percent)
• Flea market events: 4,023 listings (5.3 percent)
• Auctions: 2,168 listings (2.8 percent)

Half the market is yard sales. But estate sales, which involve professional companies far more often, are a much larger share of this market than most people assume: better than four listings in ten.

Where the sales are

The ten states with the most indexed event sales:

1. California: 8,050 listings
2. Texas: 6,527
3. Florida: 5,006
4. New York: 4,221
5. Illinois: 3,995
6. Michigan: 3,932
7. Ohio: 3,573
8. New Jersey: 2,722
9. Pennsylvania: 2,715
10. Georgia: 2,630

The city-level ranking tells a different story. Texas cities take five of the top ten spots:

1. Houston, TX: 482 listings
2. Dallas, TX: 436
3. San Antonio, TX: 434
4. Los Angeles, CA: 374
5. Chicago, IL: 369
6. Indianapolis, IN: 319
7. Austin, TX: 317
8. Las Vegas, NV: 308
9. Nashville, TN: 295
10. Fort Worth, TX: 294

Estate sale country versus yard sale country

The type of sale you find depends heavily on where you are. Among states with at least 500 indexed event sales, these lean hardest toward estate sales:

• Alabama: 67.6 percent of event listings are estate sales
• Georgia: 59.7 percent
• Texas: 57.7 percent
• Tennessee: 56.3 percent
• Arizona: 54.2 percent

And these lean hardest toward yard and garage sales:

• Pennsylvania: 71.2 percent of event listings are yard sales
• Ohio: 70.6 percent
• Oklahoma: 70.3 percent
• Indiana: 69.9 percent
• Wisconsin: 66.2 percent

The pattern is hard to miss: the South and Southwest run on professionally organized estate sales, while the Midwest and Northeast run on homeowner-driven yard sales. If you are a professional organizer deciding where the market already accepts paid help, or a reseller planning a sourcing trip, this split matters more than raw volume.

The rhythm of a sale season

Our index went live in spring 2026, so the seasonal window we can speak to honestly is April through early July. Within that window, weekly volume was remarkably steady and large: from mid May through late June, between 6,792 and 11,926 US event sales started every single week. The biggest week in the index was June 22 through June 28, with 11,926 sale starts.

The busiest single days were all Saturdays, with one telling exception:

• Saturday, June 27: 3,456 sales started
• Saturday, May 16: 3,438
• Friday, June 26: 3,406
• Saturday, May 30: 3,069
• Saturday, June 6: 2,969

A Friday nearly topping the list is not a fluke. Estate sales overwhelmingly open on Fridays, and there are enough of them to put a weekday within fifty starts of the busiest Saturday of the summer. We cover the full day-of-week breakdown in a companion study on when sales actually happen.

Why this data exists

Secondary sales are one of the last large consumer markets with almost no public data. Nobody publishes how many estate sales happen in a given week, which states lean professional versus do-it-yourself, or how big the flea market circuit is relative to everything else. The numbers above are a first cut at fixing that, and we plan to update them as the index grows and as a full year of seasonality accumulates.

Methodology

All figures come from the FindA.Sale listings index, counted July 2026. The index aggregates publicly listed sales from multiple listing sources plus sales posted directly on FindA.Sale, spanning estate sales, yard and garage sales, auctions, flea market events, and permanent resale venues. Event-sale analysis covers the 76,476 US listings typed as estate, yard, auction, or flea market; permanent resale and consignment venues (8,789 listings) and non-US listings are counted separately. State and city figures use the location on each listing. Weekly and daily start counts cover sales with start dates from April through early July 2026, the window our index has observed; the index launched in spring 2026, so early-window counts partly reflect coverage ramp-up as sources were added. These figures describe listings we index, not a census of every sale in America, and duplicate listings across sources are removed where detected. Population-adjusted rankings were omitted because we only publish numbers we can compute directly from the index.