What actually happens at Florida auctions
Most platforms stop at the listing. We follow every tracked auction through to its outcome - who won, at what price, or whether it evaporated - and feed that back into bid strategy.
Only 36% of tracked auctions are won by a bidder like you
Across 14,045 auction outcomes we captured (2023-01-03 - 2026-09-01), 49% went back to the plaintiff - the bank taking its own collateral - and 15% were canceled before the gavel. Knowing which auctions are actually winnable is the difference between a strategy and a lottery ticket.
Outcome breakdown
What the winning bid actually costs
Third-party sales only - the auctions you can actually win. Plaintiff buybacks bid ~$100 and would drag any average to the floor, so they are excluded here. Medians, never means. Every figure carries its sample.
| County | Outcomes tracked | 3rd-party sales | Median winning bid | Median bid / market value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Dade | 3,505 | 2,026 | $257,000 (n=1,996) | 95% (n=1,938) |
| Broward | 3,011 | 1,282 | $188,800 (n=1,273) | 71% (n=1,207) |
| Palm Beach | 1,684 | 729 | $141,300 (n=725) | 73% (n=626) |
| Orange | 4,050 | 562 | $188,550 (n=544) | 78% (n=466) |
| Duval | 188 | 55 | - (n=23) | - (n=0) |
| Pasco | 153 | 52 | - (n=26) | - (n=0) |
| Hillsborough | 211 | 47 | - (n=22) | - (n=0) |
| Polk | 141 | 46 | - (n=26) | - (n=0) |
| Marion | 96 | 30 | - (n=14) | - (n=0) |
Read the ratio as: the median winner paid this share of the property's market value. Miami-Dade bidders compete the hardest (95% of market value); the spread across counties is the edge. Each median appears only where at least 30 rows carry the figure it is computed from; where a county clears the sales bar but a figure does not, we leave that number blank and show its count instead.
Coverage of the outcome dataset
Orange (4,050) · Miami Dade (3,505) · Broward (3,011) · Palm Beach (1,684) · Hillsborough (211) · Duval (188) · Pasco (153) · Polk (141) · Volusia (102) · Marion (96) · Pinellas (95) · Charlotte (94) · Escambia (85) · St. Lucie (76) · Sarasota (61) · Manatee (59) · Flagler (51) · Bay (50) · Clay (42) · Lee (41) · Walton (41) · Leon (38) · Santa Rosa (30) · Alachua (22) · Martin (22) · Seminole (22) · Indian River (17) · Nassau (14) · Jackson (12) · Baker (10) · Okeechobee (9) · Putnam (7) · Washington (5) · Gulf (1)
34 counties carry at least one captured outcome; 9 have enough third-party sales (30+) for a median we are willing to publish (4,829 sales). The rest are listed for honesty, not decoration - we do not print a median off a handful of rows.
Why this matters for your bidding
- ✓A canceled auction you prepared for costs you a morning and a deposit hold - our alerts flag instability before you drive.
- ✓The bid/market ratio per county tells you what winning actually costs there - and where the room is.
- ✓Every outcome we capture makes the win-price prediction sharper - this dataset compounds and cannot be copied overnight.
Month-by-month reports
The same dataset, closed out one calendar month at a time. The newest month stays provisional until its results are posted - we publish the rates once they settle, not before.
August 2026July 2026June 2026May 2026April 2026March 2026February 2026January 2026December 2025November 2025October 2025September 2025
Dataset: 14,045 outcomes across 34 counties, 2023-01-03 to 2026-09-01. 7,196 carry both a final price and a market value. Refreshed with every capture cycle.