The Geography of Points 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 two thousand decided auctions and a clear picture emerges: points 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. As of writing, these numbers are showing London just ahead, but the top of the table is close: London and Paris are nearly tied, and a few weeks of fresh closes could swap the lead.
• London with 212. The deepest auction city in the world right now, split between Marriott Moments (149), Qatar's O2 concert hospitality (28), and Hilton (19).
• Paris with 204, almost all of it Accor (196), including its Roland-Garros draws and city-break stays. See the Accor ALL Rewards program.
• Shanghai with 134, almost entirely Marriott Moments' Asia-Pacific inventory.
• New York with 110, a genuine mix: Wyndham (70), Delta (19), and Qatar (15).
• Los Angeles with 104, nearly all Marriott.
• Berlin with 102, all Marriott, heavy on concerts and entertainment.
• East Rutherford, New Jersey with 51. That is MetLife Stadium, which is to say the World Cup.
• Miami with 44, Arlington, Texas with 37, and Vancouver with 26. World Cup host cities, all three.
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.
| Country | Closes | Bids per auction |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 797 | ~22 |
| United Kingdom | 273 | 7.2 |
| France | 226 | 7.5 |
| China | 140 | 15.1 |
| Germany | 112 | 4.4 |
| Mexico | 55 | ~26 |
| Canada | 52 | 16.0 |
| Monaco | 7 | ~41 (range 12 to 75) |
The headline is the gap between the United States and everywhere else in the developed world: an American auction draws about three 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. France and the UK each clear hundreds of closes but at a quarter of the American intensity, and Germany is quieter still. Monaco is the outlier at the top: only seven closes, but Formula 1 demand pushes the average past forty 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 2,000 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 3.3 bids, while Marriott's sports inventory overall averaged 30. 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:
Median: 50,000 points
700 verified closes · median 50,000 points · updated monthly
The reverse logic applies too. If you are bidding on US World Cup inventory this summer, expect company. East Rutherford is the most contested square mile in the archive. 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. The World Cup auctions live right now are the most contested of the lot:
About this data
Delta and World of Hyatt remove their auctions at close, so we cannot verify the winning bid afterward. Their figures here are last-observed floors, meaning the true closing price can only be higher.
• Figures are trusted closes from the PointAuctions.com closed-auction archive as of June 13, 2026, covering auctions that closed from March through June 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 is the largest of the two last-observed programs 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 46 closes with no resolvable city are excluded from the city and country counts. A single city can be geocoded under more than one regional label, so we aggregate by city.