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Marketplace alerts in Boston
How many listings go up for sale around Boston every day, when they go up, what things cost there, and how to hear about the one you want before it sells.
Around Boston, about 4,068 new listings a day go up on Craigslist. That is the area's whole for-sale feed, every category, read by Deal Scanner's pipeline; it does not depend on what anyone is searching for. The busiest Craigslist posting hour is 12 p.m. local time.
Deal Scanner also saw about 8 OfferUp listings a day here. The OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace numbers come from what users in this area are searching for, not the whole marketplace, so they are a floor; Facebook is not counted per town at all.
When listings go up in Boston
Good listings posted in the busy hours sell in the busy hours. A saved search on Facebook, in our use, tells you hours to days later; an alert that fires when the listing is posted is the difference.
What things cost in Boston
Median asking prices on Craigslist listings seen here in the last 3 days, for the items the pipeline saw enough of to say.
| Item | Listings | Typical price |
|---|---|---|
| Bicycles | 58 | $150 |
| Refrigerators | 35 | $400 |
| Dressers | 33 | $200 |
| Dining tables | 19 | $200 |
| Snowblowers | 19 | $500 |
| Push mowers | 17 | $125 |
| Milwaukee tools | 15 | $149 |
| DeWalt tools | 13 | $60 |
| Kayaks | 12 | $400 |
National prices and more areas on each item page.
Setting an alert for Boston
Type your town in Deal Scanner, and it picks the Craigslist area (boston.craigslist.org) and the OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace coverage for it, then applies the radius you choose. One search covers all three. Craigslist's own alerts here are email only, on Craigslist's schedule; Facebook's arrive hours to days late in our use. Deal Scanner buzzes your phone when the listing is posted and shows when it found it.
Where these numbers come from
Deal Scanner's own pipeline. For Craigslist it reads each area's whole for-sale feed, every category, no keywords, so an area's count is the area's real volume and does not depend on what anyone searches for; an area appears here once at least one person watches it. For OfferUp it reads the feed inside the radius people have set, and for Facebook Marketplace it reads each saved search, so those two are watched, not measured whole. National counts of new listings per day come from the pipeline's daily counters. Typical prices are medians of asking prices on listings seen in the last 3 days, with the obviously wrong prices (a $1 truck, a $99,999 couch) excluded. Nothing here identifies a listing, a seller or a user. Generated October 27, 2026; refreshed on a schedule, so the numbers move.
Hear about the next one first
Deal Scanner watches Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist for a search you set in Boston, on our servers, around the clock, and buzzes your phone when a listing is posted, with the time we found it on every alert and a Deal Score showing how far under the typical price near you it sits. No Facebook login. $3.99 a month for three searches, cancel anytime. It is built for everyone who checks Marketplace every day, whether flipping is your side thing, your whole job, or not the point at all.
FAQ
How many listings go up in Boston a day?
About 4,068 a day on Craigslist, counted from the area's whole for-sale feed over the last 3 days. OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace add more on top and are watched by radius and by search, so they are not in that number.
What time are listings posted in Boston?
The busiest hour is 12 p.m. local time, and most listings go up between mid-morning and early evening. The chart above has every hour.
How do I get Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace alerts for Boston?
Set a Deal Scanner search with your town, a radius and a price range. It watches Craigslist, OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace and buzzes your phone when a listing matches. Facebook's own saved-search notifications and Craigslist's email alerts are the free, slower options.