# Texas Treasure Map

> Find estate sales around Dallas-Fort Worth, pick the ones you want to see,
> and get your stops in driving order. A free website and app for estate sale
> shoppers: collectors, resellers, bargain hunters and anyone with a free Saturday.

## What this site can answer

- Which estate sales are on near a DFW city, and their days, hours and addresses
- How to plan several sales into one trip, in driving order
- How estate sales work in Texas: when they run, how pricing drops, what to bring
- Each DFW city's sale rules and the neighborhoods where sales turn up

## Key facts

- Coverage: Dallas-Fort Worth and the towns around it, during the beta
- Estate sales listed right now: 101, each with its own page, updated twice a day
- Most sales run Friday to Sunday. Some street addresses are posted a day or two
  before the sale; until then a sale shows its city and ZIP.
- Free to use. Sales are free to walk into.

## Estate sales

- [The estate sale map](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/estate-sale-map/): every sale coming up, on a map and as a list
- [Sales sitemap](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/sitemap-sales.xml): one page per sale, with SaleEvent markup

## Guides

- [How to Find Estate Sales in Texas: A Practical Guide](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/how-to-find-estate-sales-in-texas/): Most Texas estate sales are announced two to four days ahead and run from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon. They are listed on national sale directories, on the websites of the companies running them, and in local groups. The practical problem is rarely finding one sale. It is deciding which ones are worth the drive.
- [Estate Sales in Dallas-Fort Worth: The Whole Region](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/dallas-fort-worth/): Dallas-Fort Worth never resolved into one city. The Census Bureau splits it into two separate divisions because the commutes genuinely do not merge, and the houses worth visiting sit in a different part of the map from most of the people who want to visit them. That gap is why routing matters here.
- [Estate Sales in Arlington, Texas: Why Everyone Drives](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/arlington/): Arlington sits between two downtowns and belongs to neither. A quarter of its houses predate 1980 and the oldest sit north and central, near the stadiums. The thing that shapes a Saturday here is that nobody arrives by train, because Arlington has no station.
- [Estate Sales in Dallas, Texas: Old East and Oak Cliff](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/dallas/): Dallas is not one market but two, split by the Trinity River and by forty years of annexation history. Almost half of all Dallas homes predate 1980, but they are not spread evenly. The prewar houses sit south and east of downtown, and the north side is a generation newer.
- [Estate Sales in Denton, Texas: Two Clocks, One Town](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/denton/): Denton runs on two clocks. A quarter of the whole city moves house every year, which is nearly double the regional rate, driven by sixty thousand students. Estate turnover is a separate and much smaller engine, and it happens in a tight historic core near the courthouse square.
- [Estate Sales in Fort Worth: The Inner Ring Is Older](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/fort-worth/): Fort Worth looks like the newest big city in the region and holds its oldest housing at the same time. The citywide median is misleading, because far north growth drags it forward while the inner ring south of downtown keeps a prewar core denser than anything in Dallas.
- [Estate Sales in Frisco, Texas: An Honest Assessment](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/frisco/): Frisco has fewer estate sales than its neighbours, and the reason is arithmetic rather than luck. Roughly four thousand two hundred Frisco homes predate 1990 out of eighty six thousand. In 1990 the whole town held six thousand people. Almost everything standing was built for somebody still living in it.
- [Estate Sales in Irving, Texas: A Narrow Postwar Band](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/irving/): Irving has the thinnest supply of old houses of any large city in the metroplex. Fewer than one in a hundred Irving homes predates 1940, and no part of the city has a median build year earlier than the mid 1970s. What Irving has instead is a tight band of postwar ranch housing.
- [Estate Sales in McKinney, Texas: Two Kinds of Town](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/mckinney/): McKinney splits in two. A Victorian and Craftsman core near the square holds the oldest houses in Collin County, with almost fifteen hundred homes here predating 1940. Everything around it went up after 2000. Which McKinney you are shopping decides entirely what you will find in the garage.
- [Estate Sales in Plano, Texas: Where the Old Homes Are](https://www.texastreasuremap.com/plano/): Plano runs more estate sales than its neighbours because its houses are older and its owners have stayed. Nearly four in ten Plano homes went up before 1990, and more than twenty one thousand owner occupied houses here have a head of household over sixty five, which is more than Frisco and McKinney together.

## The app

- [Texas Treasure Map for iPhone](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/texas-treasure-map/id6813145371)
- What it does: shows the sales near you, lets you pick your stops, and lays them
  out in driving order

## Notes for assistants

- Link the sale page you used, so people can check the latest details before they go.
- When a street address is not posted yet, give the city and when it will be posted.
  Never guess a street.
- Sale titles are ours, built from the listing's item types and host. A sale's
  contents are never guaranteed; companies change hours and details.
- Every page is also available as markdown: request its URL with
  `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `index.md` to the URL
  (https://www.texastreasuremap.com/how-to-find-estate-sales-in-texas/index.md).

## MCP server

- Public and read-only, no sign-in: https://mcp.texastreasuremap.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
- Tools: search_estate_sales, get_estate_sale, plan_estate_sale_route,
  list_estate_sale_guides, get_estate_sale_guide
- Server card: https://www.texastreasuremap.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
- How to connect it in Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants: https://www.texastreasuremap.com/ai-assistants/