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@sjb In the example I had bidding online, you could do something like that. Not sure if there is much benefit though. If a house only has your low bid on it and nothing else for a while then they might just accept it. If there are two people bidding, the person who has been outbid (your...

@waggles Average asking was €698,372 Keep in mind that we were looking for 3 bed houses with garden/parking so apartments would be lower.

@vinyamo No worries. Happy to get it out of my head and written down somewhere!

@steveh I did get the impression that some people just don't know what they are doing. If you aren't Irish and this is your first purchase you might not know how the system works. I always saw it as a sign of a good estate agent if they ask.

@intofarlands We actually went to see that twice. It has a sort of basement level that got me very excited until my partner pointed out that the roof was about 6ft and would shrink quite a lot when some floors and insulation would go in. The whole place needed to be gutted. Wonky floors in some...

@madria The 49 houses in the list range from asking prices of 550k up to 825k. Our max budget was 850k but we didn't want to go near that so we looked at a very big range.

@walt74 See my updated original post. I updated my data for the past few months and it heavily points toward increases. Only 20% went for under now.

@swedish close to 60%/40% Updated data in the original post.

Commented on a few posts over the year about my experience and people found it useful so here is the final updated version and what we can learn from it. By the end of the year I could estimate the value of a house and even advised some friends that were selling and guessed the correct price...

@gabbyrose4 I have been tracking all the houses we have been interested in over the past year. I have then been checking on the register what they finally sell for. Between 05/22 and 05/23: The largest amount over the asking price I have tracked is 105k. Some of these were clearly underpriced...