asking price??

if there was a bunch of people fighting for that bottle of milk (and every other one!!) there'd be some v expensive bottles of milk.....

if your a FTB how are you ment to gauge what the price is worth befor you make an offer if the prices given in adverts are just plucked from the sky?

Look at actual recent selling prices of similar properties.

is this info available on websites like myhome.ie etc???? but wont the EA always say that those sales where a few months aga and house prices have risen etc....

Thing to do is to ask if they're any offers on the house, if not offer the price it's advertised at (if in Dublin) or you could try lower, but I've never heard of that working (in Dublin). If they get higher offers they will call you and let you know and then the bidding begins...

Extopia - good advice, but I always found that asking EAs for selling prices was met with "Sorry we can't reveal that information, but it was excess of asking price" (no, really??).

Personally, the only way I found of actually gauging selling price was to get in and follow the bidding on properties. Ring up about every property and ask for the current offer. Eventually, you'll be told it's gone Sale Agreed, so you cann make a good guess as to the selling price.