Is this rent fair? How to read the MoveIn price score
What the 0 to 100 AI price score actually means, how it's calculated from real market data, and how to use it to find genuinely good-value rentals.
When you're renting in Ireland, the hardest question to answer is also the most important one: is this price actually fair, or am I being overcharged because the market is desperate?
Every other Irish portal leaves you to guess. MoveIn answers it directly. Every active listing gets an AI price score from 0 to 100, shown right on the card, telling you how that asking rent compares to the real market for that exact type of home in that exact area.
Here's how to read it.
What the three bands mean
The score maps to one of three bands, split at the market quartiles:
- Below market (85–100) — The rent is among the cheapest 25% for comparable homes in the area. Genuinely good value. These go fast.
- Market average (50–84) — In the broad middle for similar homes. A reasonable, market-appropriate rent — most listings live here.
- Above market (0–49) — Among the priciest 25% for the area. You're paying over the going rate; worth asking why (is it the location, the finish, the furniture?).
The bands describe the price against real market data, nothing more — and the colour tells you the direction at a glance (green is a good deal, amber is dear). If a listing has no badge at all, it simply means we don't yet have enough market data for that specific combination to score it fairly — not that it's good or bad.
How the score is calculated
This isn't a vibe or a marketing gimmick. It's maths against real data.
- We build a market picture for every county × property type × bedroom count — for example, "two-bed apartments in Galway city." That picture comes from current and recent listings plus public market data, summarised as the average, median, and the 25th and 75th percentile rents.
- When a listing is published, we compare its asking rent against that distribution: