The Geography of Point Auctions: London Lists the Most, America Bids the Hardest

Every listing we track is geocoded down to its city, which means the closed-auction archive has a geography. Map three thousand decided auctions and a clear picture emerges: point auctions concentrate in a handful of world cities, and how hard people bid depends a great deal on which side of the Atlantic the experience is on.

The auction capitals

Decided auctions in our archive, by city. London was only just ahead of Paris when we first ran this cut; a summer of Marriott Moments inventory has since opened a clear gap, and London now leads by more than a hundred closes.

• London with 415. The deepest auction city in the world right now, split between Marriott Moments (319), Qatar's O2 concert hospitality (45), Hilton (29), and Accor (17).

• Paris with 266, mostly Accor (215), including its Roland-Garros draws and city-break stays, plus 42 Marriott closes. See the Accor ALL Rewards program.

• Shanghai with 239, almost entirely Marriott Moments' Asia-Pacific inventory (236).

• New York with 169, a genuine mix: Wyndham (108), Delta (26), Qatar (19), and Hilton (10).

• Los Angeles with 146, nearly all Marriott (135).

• Berlin with 113, all but one of them Marriott, heavy on concerts and entertainment.

• Atlanta with 62, the one city where Delta (25) leads the field, and Chicago with 56, split between Marriott, United, and Delta.

• Miami with 59, East Rutherford, New Jersey with 54, Las Vegas with 47, Arlington, Texas with 41, and Vancouver with 27. East Rutherford is MetLife Stadium, which is to say the World Cup, and Miami, Arlington, and Vancouver are host cities too.

• Bangkok with 45, the quietest big city in the archive at 2.0 bids per close.

Where the bidding wars are

The same archive, cut by country. Closes are the number of decided auctions; bids per auction is the average across them.

The headline is still the gap between the United States and everywhere else: an American auction draws about two and a half times the bids of a British one. The loyalty programs running these auctions are overwhelmingly US-centric in membership, and members bid hardest close to home. The UK clears hundreds of closes at well under half the American intensity, and Germany is quieter still. France is the exception that has moved: a run of heavily contested Marriott lots in Paris has pulled its average up to 17.8, within touching distance of the US. Monaco is the outlier at the top: only eight closes, but Formula 1 demand pushes the average to about 37 bids apiece. In our tracking, thin markets built around a single marquee event behave exactly like that, few lots and ferocious bidding. For how that late-auction crowding plays out on the clock, see what the data says about late bidding. For a fuller breakdown of how each program's market behaves, see what 3,000+ closed auctions reveal about each program.

The arbitrage

If you are US-based with flexible travel, or already headed across the Atlantic, the implication is direct: comparable experiences face far thinner competition in London, Paris, and Berlin than in New York or Miami. Berlin's hundred-plus Marriott closes averaged 3.5 bids, while Marriott's sports inventory overall averaged 29.3. A concert suite in Berlin and a stadium suite in Los Angeles draw from very different bidder pools, and only one of them is crowded. The quiet end of the market is where the bargains live, which is the whole subject of our guide to uncontested auctions.

Most of the European inventory driving that gap is Marriott Moments entertainment, the concert and festival suites that stack up in London, Berlin, and Shanghai. Here is the full spread of what those verified closes actually settle at, so "thinner competition" has a price attached:

The reverse logic applies too. If you are bidding on US World Cup inventory this summer, expect company. East Rutherford is among the most contested patches of ground in the archive, at about 40 bids per close, and Miami now edges past it at about 45. Here is what recent World Cup lots have actually closed at:

Browse it yourself

The listings map shows every live auction and buy-now experience by city, and the results archive keeps every decided auction's price permanently. If a quiet city matches your travel plans, set an alert before the locals notice, or search the live marketplace by program and city. World Cup auctions, when they are live, are the most contested lots on the board:

About this data

• Figures are trusted closes from the PointAuctions.com closed-auction archive as of September 3, 2026, covering auctions that closed from February through September 2026, and are not restated as they age. The price chart and recent-closes block above read the live verified-close archive and refresh on their own. A trusted close is one with a real settled price: a verified winning bid, or a last-observed bid on a platform that does not let us confirm the final number after close. We count actual points bid and never convert points to dollar values.

• Delta still supplies most of the last-observed closes and lands mostly in the US totals, which makes the US-versus-everywhere bidding gap conservative if anything.

• Locations are resolved to city level only (no street addresses), and 57 closes with no resolvable city are excluded from the city counts, and 48 with no resolvable country from the country counts. A single city can be geocoded under more than one regional label, so we aggregate by city.