On May 26, Heritage Auctions, the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer, surpassed 2 million online bidder-members on its industry-leading platform (HA.com), where collectors buy and sell across more than 50 categories, from fine art to rare coins, sports and entertainment, luxury items and more.
“Surpassing 2 million bidder-members underscores the unmatched reach and influence of Heritage Auctions,” says Steve Ivy, CEO of Heritage Auctions. “For consignors, this means unprecedented access to a vast, engaged and global audience actively competing for the world’s most sought-after treasures. Our platform – backed by over 7 million previously sold lots – offers a proven path to achieving the strongest possible results.”
HA.com, the most visited website for fine arts and collectibles, offers exclusive tools like the Make Offer to Owner program, allowing members to bid on previously sold lots. Other features include tracking personal collections, registering ownership of past auction items, and creating customized Want Lists, enhancing the experience for collectors worldwide.
HA.com offers copious resources for new and seasoned collectors via its newsroom and newsletters, its semi-monthly magazine, Intelligent Collector, and its How-To, Trusts & Estates and Meet-the-Experts features, which walk prospective clients through the process of buying or selling with Heritage.
Heritage’s success can be credited in large part to significant growth across most of its more than 50 categories, led by Comics and Comic Art, Sports and Hollywood/Entertainment. The company that has long prided itself as “America’s Auction House” continued its national growth in 2024, expanding its office in West Palm Beach. But Heritage’s global record continued apace, too, with showrooms and offices opening in Tokyo and Munich.
Heritage Auctions set numerous records in 2024, led by the most successful Sports auction ever held over the summer, a $61.9 million grand slam, followed just a few months later by the record-setting Entertainment event that strutted down the Yellow Brick Road to a $38.6 million finish. Yet in 2024, no record loomed larger than the one set by the auction house itself: Last year, Heritage reached $1,867,023,603 in total sales, the highest ever for the 49-year-old company in the wake of three successive record-setting years.
“We’ve added half a million bidder-members in just a few years, with significant growth in key markets across Europe, Asia and Latin America,” Ivy says. “This milestone reflects Heritage’s evolution as the premier destination for collectors and consignors, driven by our commitment to innovation and accessibility.”
Heritage Auctions’ global reach and cutting-edge platform continue to set the standard for the industry, solidifying HA.com as the trusted hub for collectors seeking extraordinary opportunities.
About Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions is the largest fine art and collectibles auction house founded in the United States, and the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer. Heritage maintains offices in New York, Dallas, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Palm Beach, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Munich, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Heritage also enjoys the highest Online traffic and dollar volume of any auction house on earth (source: SimilarWeb and Hiscox Report). The Internet’s most popular auction-house website, HA.com, has more than 2 million registered bidder-members and searchable free archives of more than 7,000,000 past auction records with prices realized, descriptions and enlargeable photos. Reproduction rights routinely granted to media for photo credit.
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