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 four bands mean
The score maps to one of four verdicts:
- Great value (85–100) — The rent is in the bottom 25% for comparable homes. Genuinely good value. These go fast.
- Fair price (70–84) — Below the local median. A reasonable, market-appropriate rent.
- Above market (50–69) — Between the median and the top quartile. You're paying a premium; worth asking why (is it the location, the finish, the furniture?).
- Overpriced (0–49) — In the top 25% for the area. You're paying well over the going rate for what you get.
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: