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I mapped 40k government auctions, and colored each cell on the map by bidding intensity - this map shows the price increase relative to the starting bid; red is hotter, blue is cooler.

Texas and the Midwest are the hottest, maybe literally right now as well as for auctions. St. Anthony, ID is the current outlier, with the average lot finishing at ~50x its starting bid. In general, auctions on the East Coast are far less competitive.

Source: The Govauctions.app auction database, including listings from GSA, GovDeals, PublicSurplus and more.

Tools: SVG and Javascript

Interactive version of the map with an alternate view for number of bids, at https://govauctions.app/research/bid-intensity-map 

I saw these coking / chemical processing facilities being sold off in Bakersfield, CA for $500k each, and couldn't understand how the auction works; never seen anything like it. I'm presuming you aren't buying the land; is the buyer expected to deconstruct and transport the entire facility?

Some research and data from my site that I thought might be interesting (I run govauctions.app, which aggregates listings from government auction sites).

I mapped ~36k government auctions, and colored each cell on the map by bidding intensity - the average bids each lot gets, as well as price increase relative to the starting bid.

Texas and the Midwest are the hottest, maybe literally right now as well as for auctions. Great Bend, KS is the outlier, with the average lot finishing at ~44x its starting bid. The east coast is far less competitive, in general.

There's an interactive version of the map at https://govauctions.app/research/bid-intensity-map and a bunch more other articles and data in the research section of the site if you find this interesting.

Link: govauctions.app/research/open-dataset

I run a site that aggregates government auctions (govauctions.app), and I make the US federal auction data from GSA available for free.

You can see things like sold prices, locations, bid counts and so on. It's available in a csv, JSON or via a public github repo.

Hope you find it useful; let me know if you do anything interesting with it.

Over the weekend, I pulled some data from my website (govauctions.app) to find the cheapest homes you can buy from the government.

The outliers (a $3,000 house in Flint, MI) are often in quite a state of disrepair, but there are lots of...lots...which are in reasonable condition across many US states, over 300 in total.

Link to the interactive map: https://govauctions.app/research/cheapest-homes-in-america

Disclosure: this is my own data — I run govauctions.app, a search engine that aggregates government surplus auctions.

Each dot is one real completed lot, plotted by what it sold for (x) against how many people bid (y), colored by how contested it was. You can watch demand sort itself out: a coral floor of cheap stuff that sells to whoever bothered, rising into a green cloud of valuable lots people actually fight over; ~40% of lots close with no bid at all. The lone dot on the far right is a $250,000 former school in Florida that drew exactly one bidder.

Tool: JavaScript + SVG. Source: govauctions.app's archive of completed auctions, limited to GovDeals/GSA/MiBid where bid counts are reliable (~70,700 lots).

Interactive version — hover any dot, filter by category — plus full methodology: https://govauctions.app/research/what-the-government-cant-give-away

Doing double Rising Road to desleep and attack my sleep scam opponent is I think the best feeling I've had playing Ranked in months. Also I got to bring my buddy out of retirement!