The BuyerEdge Blog

11 March 2026  |  6 min read

How Much Should I Bid on a House in Ireland?

A data-driven guide to setting your opening offer on an Irish property. Learn how to use closed-sale transaction data from the Property Price Register — not asking prices — to determine what a home is actually worth before you bid.

11 March 2026  |  7 min read

How Much Over Asking Price Do Houses Go For in Ireland?

Data from the Property Price Register shows what Irish homes actually sell for relative to asking prices. Learn which areas and property types consistently go above asking — and by how much.

11 March 2026  |  8 min read

Property Bidding Strategy Ireland: A Data-Driven Guide

A practical, step-by-step guide to bidding on property in Ireland. Learn how to structure your opening offer, handle sealed bids, set a walk-away price, and avoid emotional overbidding — all grounded in Property Price Register data.

11 March 2026  |  6 min read

How to Know If a House Is Overpriced in Ireland

Learn how to check whether an Irish property's asking price is fair by comparing it against verified closed-sale data from the Property Price Register. Spot overpriced listings before you bid.

11 March 2026  |  7 min read

What Will This House Sell For? How to Estimate Sale Price in Ireland

Learn how to estimate what an Irish property will actually sell for using Property Price Register data. Why asking prices, agent valuations, and online estimates can mislead — and what to use instead.

22 February 2026  |  14 min read

The Ultimate Guide to Bidding on Property in Ireland (2026 Edition)

How the house bidding process works in Ireland, step by step — from viewing to sealed bids, negotiation leverage, and how to avoid overpaying. Data-backed property bidding strategy using the Property Price Register.

20 February 2026  |  5 min read

Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Back in the Irish Market. What That Means for Individual Buyers.

International institutional investors — sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, and REITs — are returning to the Irish residential market in 2026. For individual buyers competing in the same submarkets, the competitive landscape has materially changed.

20 February 2026  |  5 min read

The Hidden Cost of Waiting: What 15 Years of PPR Data Shows About Timing the Irish Market

With housing declared a national emergency and prices 52% above pre-Covid levels, many buyers are waiting for a correction. The Property Price Register tells a different story — one that quantifies the cost of waiting in a market structurally incapable of sustained price decline.

19 February 2026  |  7 min read

Dublin Median Property Price Breaks €500,000: What the Transaction Data Shows

Analysis of Property Price Register data as Dublin's median residential price crosses €500,000 for the first time — the structural drivers, geographic concentration, affordability implications, and what it means for buyers entering the market in 2025.

19 February 2026  |  5 min read

At the Limit: What Overpaying Costs When You're Already at Your Mortgage Ceiling

Dublin's median residential property now requires a household income of €112,500 to finance under Central Bank rules — well above Dublin's median household income. For buyers who reach that threshold, the financial consequences of a poorly calibrated offer are not a minor inconvenience. They are carried for the life of the mortgage.

20 February 2025  |  6 min read

Ireland Has No Bid Register. Here's Why That Is Costing Buyers Tens of Thousands.

Irish property buyers have no legal mechanism to verify whether a competing bid is genuine. Estate agents are not required to maintain or publish bid logs. This is not a flaw — it is the operating structure of the Irish residential sales market, and it systematically extracts value from buyers.

14 February 2025  |  5 min read

Daft.ie Shows Asking Prices. The PPR Shows Reality. Irish Buyers Are Using the Wrong Data.

Ireland's dominant property portals — Daft.ie and MyHome.ie — display listing prices set by vendors and their agents. This is not market data. A systematic analysis of how the information gap structurally disadvantages buyers and why the Property Price Register is the only reliable basis for offer decisions.

28 January 2025  |  9 min read

The Cost of Reactive Bidding: Why Irish Buyers Who Define a Ceiling Before Bidding Outperform

The anchoring effect of asking prices, the psychology of competitive escalation in Irish property negotiations, and the statistical case for entering any negotiation with a pre-defined, data-grounded maximum bid.

15 January 2025  |  10 min read

How BuyerEdge Calculates Your Bid Strategy: The Full Statistical Methodology

A deep-dive into the quantitative framework behind every BuyerEdge report — from Property Price Register sourcing to time-adjustment, size-filtering, IQR-based offer bands, statistical ceiling derivation, and confidence scoring.