Estate Sale & Garage Sale Finder — US Listings by City

Estate Sale & Garage Sale Finder returns upcoming public sales listed on EstateSales.NET for any US city: sale title, type (estate sale, moving sale, online auction and others), start and end dates, city, state, ZIP code, distance from the city and a photo, one row per sale. It is built for resellers, antique dealers, pickers, estate-liquidation researchers and local-event apps, and it costs about USD 15 per 1,000 sales on the Free tier.

Give it a city and state, and it reads that city's public EstateSales.NET page for you; no sign-in, no browser.

What does the estate sale finder return?

Each dataset row is one unique public sale.

Field	What it contains
saleId, title	EstateSales.NET sale ID and the public sale title
saleType	Source type name, for example EstateSales, MovingSales, OnlineOnlyAuctions or ByAppointment
startDate, endDate	Sale start and end time (ISO 8601, UTC)
city, state, postalCode	Public sale location; often null for online-only auctions
distanceMiles	Distance from the searched city, as reported by the source
streetAddress	Street address only when includeSourceAddress is true and the source already shows it
sourceUrl, imageUrl	Sale page link and first photo
fetchedAt	UTC extraction time

Fields the source does not show are null; hidden addresses are never inferred. A SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store reports the outcome (DATA, EMPTY, BLOCKED, FAILED or REJECTED), pages read, source records found and warnings.

How do I find estate sales near a city?

Add one or more city and state pairs to locations. Each pair becomes that city's EstateSales.NET page, which lists sales in the surrounding area, not only inside city limits. You can also paste EstateSales.NET location pages in startUrls.

Input	Default	Bounds and notes
locations	[{"city":"New York","state":"NY"}]	Up to 10 pairs; state is a two-letter code; not a ZIP-radius search
startUrls	[]	Up to 20 public estatesales.net location pages, for example https://www.estatesales.net/NY/New-York
saleTypes	["EstateSales","GarageSales","MovingSales","TagSales"]	Keeps only these source types, case-insensitive; empty list keeps every type, including auctions
maxResults	25	1–100 unique sales per run
includeSourceAddress	false	Adds the street address when the source already displays it
proxyConfiguration	direct	Optional; leave the default

Estate and moving sales in two Texas cities, with street addresses:

{
  "locations": [
    { "city": "Dallas", "state": "TX" },
    { "city": "Austin", "state": "TX" }
  ],
  "saleTypes": ["EstateSales", "MovingSales"],
  "maxResults": 40,
  "includeSourceAddress": true
}

Every sale type, including online auctions, from a pasted page:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.estatesales.net/NY/New-York" }],
  "saleTypes": [],
  "maxResults": 20
}

Output example

[
  {
    "saleId": "5128239",
    "title": "Carrie'd Away Moving Sale",
    "saleType": "MovingSales",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.estatesales.net/NJ/Morristown/07960/5128239",
    "city": "Morristown",
    "state": "NJ",
    "postalCode": "07960",
    "streetAddress": null,
    "startDate": "2026-10-25T14:00:00.000Z",
    "endDate": "2026-10-26T23:00:00.000Z",
    "distanceMiles": 23.46,
    "imageUrl": "https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/5128239/1-2/9e162f67-35bd-4773-9c2a-d85d49e6e507.jpg",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-10-26T14:20:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "saleId": "5129238",
    "title": "Rob Gawley Sale",
    "saleType": "EstateSales",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.estatesales.net/NJ/Clifton/07011/5129238",
    "city": "Clifton",
    "state": "NJ",
    "postalCode": "07011",
    "streetAddress": null,
    "startDate": "2026-10-25T14:00:00.000Z",
    "endDate": "2026-10-26T20:00:00.000Z",
    "distanceMiles": 13.89
  }
]

These rows come from the public New York page as checked on 2026-10-26 (distance rounded here; the second row is truncated). That page listed 20 sales across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania: 8 estate sales, 2 moving sales, 9 online-only auctions and 1 by-appointment sale.

When should I use this estate sale and garage sale finder?

Use it to:

• Plan a weekend route through estate sales and moving sales near one or more cities.
• Feed a local sale calendar, map or newsletter with dates, ZIP codes and photos.
• Track how many estate sales, moving sales and auctions run in a market over time.

Do not use it for:

• Complete garage sale or yard sale coverage: only sales listed on EstateSales.NET are returned, and garage or tag sales appear only when the source lists them under those types.
• Item-level inventory or prices inside each sale: the Actor returns sale-level records.
• Hidden or appointment-only addresses: they are never revealed.
• Auction lot data: use LiveAuctioneers Auction Lot Data Scraper.

How much does it cost?

You pay per sale delivered plus one start fee per run. Platform usage is included.

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold, Platinum, Diamond
Sale listing (per sale)	USD 0.015	USD 0.014	USD 0.013	USD 0.012
Actor start (per run)	USD 0.006251	USD 0.006094	USD 0.005938	USD 0.005

The start fee is charged once per started GB of allocated memory; the default 512 MB run pays one.

Worked totals on the Free tier:

• 10 sales: USD 0.006251 + 10 × USD 0.015 = about USD 0.16.
• 100 sales across several cities: USD 0.006251 + 100 × USD 0.015 = about USD 1.51.

Sales are charged only when saved, and a sale that appears on two city pages is saved and charged once. Empty, rejected or blocked runs charge no sale events.

How many sales does one city return?

Up to about 20. The Actor reads the first public page of each city, which held 20 sales in the New York check, and then applies your saleTypes filter. With the default types, that New York page yielded 10 sales, so a default run returns fewer than its maxResults of 25. To collect more, add more cities (up to 10) or clear saleTypes. Each run makes one request per city page.

If EstateSales.NET returns a human-verification page, the run reports BLOCKED with no rows. If the page structure changes, the run fails with a diagnostic instead of returning an empty success.

Use it from an AI assistant

Estate Sale & Garage Sale Finder works from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client through Apify's MCP server. Add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder to your client, then ask, for example: "Find estate sales and moving sales near Dallas, TX this week and list them by start date with ZIP codes."

Run it with the Apify API

JavaScript (apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder').call({
  locations: [{ city: 'Chicago', state: 'IL' }],
  saleTypes: [],
  maxResults: 20,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python (apify-client 3.x):

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder").call(run_input={
    "locations": [{"city": "Phoenix", "state": "AZ"}],
    "saleTypes": ["EstateSales", "MovingSales"],
    "maxResults": 20,
})
items = client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).list_items().items
print(items)

FAQ

Does it find estate sales this weekend?

It returns the upcoming and in-progress sales on each city page with their start and end dates. Filter startDate to the weekend you want; the Actor itself does not filter by date.

Does it include garage sales and yard sales?

Only those listed on EstateSales.NET. Most listings there are estate sales, moving sales and auctions. The New York check on 2026-10-26 had no GarageSales or TagSales entries.

Can I search by ZIP code?

No. Search by city and state, or paste an EstateSales.NET location page. Each row includes the sale's ZIP code and distance so you can filter afterwards.

Why are city and ZIP empty for some sales?

Online-only auctions usually publish no physical location in the public data, so those fields are null.

Will it show the street address?

Only with includeSourceAddress: true, and only when EstateSales.NET already shows the address publicly. Withheld addresses stay null.

How many cities can I search at once?

Up to 10 city and state pairs plus up to 20 pasted pages, with a combined cap of 20 pages and 100 sales per run.

Related Actors

• County Property Records API: owner and assessed values for Denton County, Los Angeles County and other public parcel layers.
• Realtor.com Agents Scraper: US real estate agent leads by city or ZIP.
• LiveAuctioneers Auction Lot Data Scraper: auction lots and prices.
• Craigslist Scraper: US local classifieds listings and prices.

Legal and data use

The Actor reads public, server-rendered sale listings only. It does not sign in, solve CAPTCHAs, reveal withheld addresses or infer private information. Follow EstateSales.NET's terms and privacy expectations, and do not republish addresses or personal details for purposes the source does not allow. This Actor is not affiliated with EstateSales.NET.

Last verified: 2026-10-26