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To see the newest listings on Facebook Marketplace, search for an item, open Sort by and choose Date listed. Results then run newest first instead of Suggested, on the app and on desktop. On desktop you can bookmark the result. The sort only reorders what is listed when you look, so set your radius and filters too.
You open Marketplace to catch something new and get a feed of listings you saw yesterday. That is not you missing a setting so much as Marketplace's default order. This guide shows how to see newest listings on Facebook Marketplace on the app and desktop, how to read a listing's age, and why newest-first still misses things.
Outpost Alerts puts the problem well: "Marketplace opens on whatever Facebook thinks you want to see, not on what was listed a minute ago" (Outpost Alerts, page dated 15 Sep 2026).
Search for an item, open Sort by and choose Date listed. The default is Suggested; the other option is Distance. Sorting applies to search results, so type a search term rather than browsing a category tile.
Check the sort each time: a new search can land you back on Suggested.
On desktop, the sort is written into the page address, so you can bookmark it. Outpost's guide gives the pattern:
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/sydney/search?query=road%20bike&sortBy=creation_time_descend&daysSinceListed=1
| Part | What it does |
|---|---|
sydney |
Your location; copy it from your own address bar |
query=road%20bike |
The search term, spaces as %20 |
sortBy=creation_time_descend |
Newest first, the same as Date listed |
daysSinceListed=1 |
Only roughly the last day |
Make one bookmark per search. Facebook can change these parameters without notice, so if a bookmark shows Suggested again, redo the search and copy the new address.
Open the listing and look under the title and price for a line such as "Listed 3 hours ago in Austin, TX." Search tiles usually leave the age out.
Facebook shows buyers a relative age, not a date. As Outpost's listed-date guide says, "Facebook shows only a relative age, never an exact date" (Outpost Alerts, page dated 16 Oct 2026). The label gets coarser as the listing ages:
| The line says | What you know |
|---|---|
| Listed a few minutes ago | Age to the minute |
| Listed N hours ago | Age to the hour |
| Listed N days ago | Age to the day |
| Listed over a week ago | At least seven days, nothing finer |
"Over a week ago" covers an item posted last Thursday and one posted in spring. For pricing, the useful fact is that nobody has bought it at that price for a week. Ask the seller how long it has been up; the answer often comes with the reason it has not sold.
Because the sort only reorders what exists when you look. Anything listed and sold between two looks never reaches you, and three settings hide listings even when you do look.
If searches return oddly few results, that is usually a Marketplace fault rather than a setting; see why Facebook Marketplace search is broken.
A saved search, or an alert tool, does the looking between your visits and tells you when something new matches. Facebook can notify you about saved searches, with limits covered in Facebook Marketplace saved search notifications.
An alert tool turns a buy box into a running search. In Crawlbench, each search has a Listed in the last setting (24 hours, 2 days or 7 days), and alerts cover new listings at most two days old. Each listing shows Posted, the time Marketplace gives, and Found, when Crawlbench first saw it. A listing already on Marketplace when you turn a search on shows on Home but sends no alert, so alerts are for what is genuinely new. Every alert also carries a price check against similar listings nearby.
For how that compares with refreshing by hand, read Crawlbench vs refreshing Marketplace manually.
Sort by Date listed after every search, set a radius you will actually drive, bookmark the desktop link, and read the listed line on each listing. Then decide whether you want to keep looking yourself or have a search look for you.
To try a search that checks for you, start a free Day Pass: free for 24 hours, no credit card, one search, with the price check and the assistant. Crawlbench covers Facebook Marketplace in 52 countries and is not affiliated with Meta.
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