Over the last weekend, I rifled through over 370,000 completed auctions on govauctions.app, to see if I could find any fun and unintuitive patterns. About six potentially profitable patterns are supported by the data.

A subset of the data is available for download at the bottom of the post if you're interested in poking around. Let me know what you think.

So, Github Actions is currently at two nines of uptime?

98.33 according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

are you sure its actually two nines and not zero?

Real estate specifically is very hard to "value" sight unseen from a bidding perspective. The post I shared - with the information on what to look out for as well as possible additional costs - is part of helping people to understand what to bid.

Correct, there are about 3,000 real estate listings right now on the main site: https://govauctions.app/feed?category=real-estate

Yes, sorry, the map UI could be better. You can zoom in to the state level, which hopefully will help a little with not losing context.

You still go back to the complete map when you navigate back out of a listing, so it doesn't really help much. The state-level zoom helps a little but it's not enough to distinguish markers in the same city, for example.

Looks like they deliberately broke the browser's "Open in new tab" function, which could have solved this problem.

Also please don't break the back button

The data are from HUD, Fannie Mae HomePath, and Freddie Mac HomeSteps. There's a methodology section towards the bottom of the page.

Apologies, clicking on the dot should also take you to the listing.

Appreciate it, but no need - happy you found it interesting. If you end up buying one of these, let me know!

Over the weekend, I pulled some data from my website to find the cheapest homes you can buy from the US federal 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.

Indeed, I recently added an API with a free tier (https://govauctions.app/developers) If the free cap is too low for you to get an understanding of what you can do with it, let me know.

Let me look at adding fallback JS.

Wonderful! I’ll check that out.

For context regarding JS, this is what the site looks like on my phone (iOS 14): https://imgur.com/a/K0OGEma . While Reynard (browser) does make it work mostly, the sort by selection doesn’t - a minor complaint to an otherwise much better experience for accessing gov auctions.

Oh boy ok thank you for the screenshot :-) I'll see what I can do.