Every number in this post was pulled from FlipWire's live sales database on the morning of Friday, October 30, 2026 — the same database the member reports run on. The board will keep moving all weekend as late sales post, so treat these as a stamped snapshot, not a final count. Snapshot first: 1,375 scored sales run Friday October 30 through Sunday November 1, across roughly 1,008 cities.
The board, by kind
| Kind | Sales this weekend | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Estate sales | 617 | 45% |
| Yard sales | 495 | 36% |
| Garage sales | 260 | 19% |
| Auctions | 3 | <1% |
The yard and garage share is the story of the week. On Thursday, FlipWire's nationwide newsletter counted 679 scored sales for this same weekend. The jump to 1,375 is mostly one change: yard scanning went nationwide on October 30, and the first full pass is still sweeping metros in. Estate volume is steady; the yard board is what grew.
Where the weekend is busiest
Ranked by scored sales starting in the window, by city: San Antonio leads with 12, then Columbia at 10, then a five-way tie at 9 — Phoenix, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, and Murrieta. Pensacola, Las Vegas, Charlotte, and Lowell sit at 8. No single region owns the board: the top ten stretch from Texas to California to Florida to New England, which is what a national board is supposed to look like.
Most of the weekend starts early: 953 of the 1,375 sales open on Friday, 385 open Saturday, and 40 open Sunday. Sunday is a discount day, not a starting day — a fact worth building your weekend around.
The top of the scoreboard
Scores this weekend spread the way they should. 71 sales score 90 or higher — about 1 in 19. Another 232 land in the 80s, 294 in the 70s, and 778 score under 70. Of the 71 top sales, 61 are estate sales. If everything scored 90, the score would mean nothing; the top band is small because it's supposed to be the shortlist, not the phone book.
The photo signal underneath those top scores is stark. 55 of the 71 sales scoring 90+ published 250 or more photos, and the median top-band sale published 393 photos. That repeats the pattern from Thursday's board — deep photo sets are the single loudest signal that a house is full. (Photo totals are published on estate listings; Marketplace yard postings don't publish a total, so photo statistics here describe the estate side.)
What the houses are full of
Categories are tagged from each listing's own text. By number of sales tagging them, furniture (558) and home goods (557) appear in more than a third of the whole board, then clothing (346), tools (330), collectibles (255), watches and jewelry (214), vintage (195), toys (195), electronics (174), and coins and collectibles (169).
By published photos, the ranking sharpens: furniture accounts for 63,924 photos across its tagged sales, collectibles 44,051, home goods 36,205, vintage 32,466, tools 28,368, antiques 27,836, and art 26,136. Read together: this is a furniture-and-collectibles weekend. If your categories are tools or electronics, the board still holds hundreds of tagged sales — they're just outnumbered, which usually means less competition in the driveway, not less inventory.
How much of the board you can actually navigate to
Of the 1,375 weekend sales, 239 already publish a full street address. The other 1,136 sit at city or ZIP precision — not because the data is missing, but because their companies haven't released the address yet. The release runs on the companies' schedule, typically 24–48 hours before the first day, which is why the board sharpens so much between Thursday and Friday: the address drop converts a map of ZIPs into a map of driveways. By Saturday morning, nearly everything on this board that intends to publish an address has published it — the Friday recheck is built into how members are told to plan.
The yard board inside the number
The 755 yard and garage sales deserve a footnote of their own, because they're the segment that changed this week. They run across 501 cities — nearly half the cities on the whole board have at least one yard or garage sale in the window — and they were the last segment to reach full national coverage, which went live the morning this data was pulled. Yard postings skew late and local: a meaningful share of any weekend's yard board doesn't exist on Thursday morning, because the sellers haven't posted yet. The 755 is the count as of Friday morning; by Saturday it will be higher, and the gap between the two numbers is exactly what as-they-post alerts exist to catch.
One more calibration: 778 sales scoring under 70 is not a quality problem. That band is mostly thin listings — brief postings, few signals, or genuinely small sales — and a ranked board that put everything in the middle would be useless. The spread is the product: 71 sales you'd anchor a route on, a few hundred worth building around, and a long tail there for the specialists and the lucky.
What we'd do with this
- Saturday morning belongs to the 90+ band. 71 sales nationwide is a shortlist nobody can drive in full — your ZIP's slice of it is the route anchor.
- Friday starters are still Saturday sales. Most of the board opened Friday and runs through the weekend; a Friday start date doesn't mean you missed it — it means Saturday is its second day and Sunday is its discount day.
- Follow the photos. When two sales tie on score, the tiebreaker data favors all weekend is the deeper photo set.
One last comparison that puts the weekend in scale: this single three-day window holds 1,375 scored sales against 3,134 records in the entire database — nearly 44% of everything we're tracking starts in the next three days. That's not an anomaly; that's the shape of this business every single week, which is why a ranked board beats a raw list.
Counts pulled October 30, 2026 from 3,134 total sales records. Your local slice — ranked, mapped, and updated as addresses drop — is the free Thursday report for your ZIP.