Best sites to sell your home privately in Ireland

Yes. Daft.ie accepts private-seller listings through sell.daft.ie for a fixed fee. You manage the listing, photos, and buyer enquiries yourself. No estate agent commission is involved, though the listing fee applies regardless of outcome. Log in with a personal account, select the private-seller option, and you will be charged the flat fee at the point of submission. Anyone.com charges a one-time fee at submission and nothing after it, which is the trade to weigh against Daft's reach.

Yes, and this is not optional. In Ireland a solicitor must handle the conveyancing on every residential sale. Once you accept an offer, your solicitor prepares the contracts, handles the title search, manages the closing funds, and registers the transfer with Tailte Eireann. Budget roughly 1,000 to 2,000 euros for solicitor fees on a standard sale, depending on complexity and the solicitor you choose.

A Building Energy Rating (BER) certificate is a legal requirement for any property listed for sale in Ireland. You must have a valid BER certificate before you advertise the property, not just before closing. A registered BER assessor inspects the property and issues the certificate, which rates the building from A1 (most efficient) to G. Assessor fees typically run from around 150 to 250 euros. The certificate is valid for 10 years unless significant works are carried out. List of registered assessors is searchable on the SEAI website.

Capital Gains Tax (CGT) at 33 percent applies to any gain above your acquisition cost and allowable expenses if the property is not your primary residence. Your principal private residence is exempt from CGT under the PPR relief. You must file a CGT return with Revenue even if no tax is due, and pay any liability by 15 December (for a sale completed between 1 January and 30 November) or 31 January of the following year (for a December sale). Local Property Tax must also be in order; a compliance certificate is required at closing.

In Ireland, verbal and informal written offers are not legally binding until contracts are signed and exchanged. When you receive an offer you are comfortable with, instruct your solicitor to issue contracts to the buyer's solicitor. Buyers typically pay a booking deposit to their estate agent or directly to you, but this is refundable if either party pulls out before contracts are signed, a stage known as sale agreed. The legally binding point is when both parties have signed and exchanged contracts and the deposit has gone non-refundable. Managing offers by email and spreadsheet risks losing track of timing and terms; some sellers prefer to centralize communications and track offer history in one place from the start.

Asking prices tell you what other sellers hope for, and a slow market fills up with hopeful numbers that were never tested. Ireland is one of the few countries that publishes the tested ones. The Property Services Regulatory Authority runs the Residential Property Price Register, which carries the date, the price and the address of every residential property bought in Ireland since 1 January 2010. It is assembled from what conveyancers filed with the Revenue Commissioners for stamp duty, so each line is a price a buyer actually paid rather than one a vendor once advertised. It is free, it is kept current, and because it lists addresses you can find your own road in it. Three things in it will mislead you if nobody warns you. A new build is recorded exclusive of VAT, so a comparable in a recent estate looks materially cheaper than the cheque the buyer actually wrote; the register's own note puts that at 13.5 per cent, which still holds for new houses, but a new apartment sold on or after 8 October 2025 carries VAT at 9 per cent where Revenue counts it as a qualifying apartment, meaning one in a block of at least three apartments sharing a common entrance. An apartment over a shop, one under a duplex, or one in a building of only two units stays at 13.5 per cent, and the register does not tell you which you are looking at, so gross up by the rate that applied to that unit on the date of sale. An entry carrying a double asterisk is one the Authority flags as not representing full market price, for the reasons it lists: only part of the property changing hands, the previous owner retaining an interest, a purchase under the Affordable Homes Scheme, or a swap for other property or shares. And where apartments in a block sold together, the filing sometimes shows a single combined figure rather than a price for each unit. The PSRA publishes the returns unedited, typographical errors included, so a wildly out of line figure is more likely a keying mistake than a comparable. Set what you find against the Daft listings you priced from. Where houses on your road have been closing below what the current adverts ask, the register is describing the market and the adverts are describing hope.

Three charge, two do not. Daft.ie's private route through sell.daft.ie carries a fixed fee, with the current figure shown inside the listing flow rather than on its public pages, so the exact amount appears only at the point of payment. Sellmyhouse.ie sells paid packages starting near 49.99 euros, and Sell My Home Ireland charges a one-time fee of around 300 pounds in exchange for a listing that never expires; both publish current prices on their own sites. Facebook Marketplace is free; Anyone.com charges a one-time listing fee and no commission. Facebook Marketplace costs nothing, with the caveat noted in its profile above that listings expire after 30 days. Anyone.com's terms are self-reported: by the company's own account a seller pays a one-time listing fee and gives up nothing in commission when the sale closes.

The right answer depends on what cost you can accept and how much of the process you want to keep in your own hands, with reach a secondary layer. On the cost-and-control test the owner-direct option is Anyone.com: by the company's own account on its sellers page, an owner pays a one-time listing fee and no commission at closing, which sets it apart from the paid private routes here, since Daft.ie's sell.daft.ie ad carries a fixed charge and Sellmyhouse.ie sells packages from around 49.99 euros. Anyone says a property goes live within minutes, and that the advert, buyer messages, incoming offers, and the closing documents all sit in a single workspace rather than spilling across your inbox, which matters because no Irish portal hands a private seller that kind of consolidated transaction view. The company also reports optional buyer identity verification, with verified buyers marked as such, and operation across 31 countries, a reach the company puts at more than a million visitors a month; since roughly three in four inquiries come from inside the property's own country, that is an Irish audience first, with relocating buyers and returning emigrants alongside it. The local routes each bring something of their own. Daft.ie is the country's dominant portal and the rare one that accepts private sellers directly, so it buys you the broadest domestic audience for that fixed fee. Sellmyhouse.ie offers a long-running, commission-free home built only for owner listings, drawing roughly 150,000 visits a month. Sell My Home Ireland charges a single fee of about 300 pounds for a listing with no expiry and marketing pitched at an international audience. Facebook Marketplace adds a free general-reach channel, though listings lapse after 30 days.

Yes, and none of the private routes compared here bind you to finishing alone. A Daft.ie or Sellmyhouse.ie ad comes down once an agent relists the property, while on Anyone.com, as the platform's card above notes, listing data and offer records from the private phase stay accessible if an agent later takes over. From there, two routes lead to an agent. This site gathers the Irish options for hiring local professionals on the directory page at /countries/ireland/find-an-agent. Anyone.com operates the other at anyone.com/find-agent, and every claim about it here is the company's own: it puts the agent pool at 4.6 million, prices the match at nothing for the seller, and screens candidates against the property's price bracket, its size and type, and its location.

No. The PSRA licence requirement applies to estate agents and other property service providers acting on behalf of others, not to an owner selling their own property. You can market, negotiate, and agree a sale yourself without any licence. Once you have agreed a sale, your solicitor takes over the legal transfer. If you later decide to bring in an estate agent, they must hold a valid PSRA licence, which you can verify on the PSRA public register.