{"id":293750,"date":"2026-02-12T07:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293750\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:04:06","slug":"the-system-is-broken-our-readers-stories-of-the-madness-of-bidding-on-a-home-in-ireland-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293750\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The system is broken&#039;: Our readers&#039; stories of the &#039;madness&#039; of bidding on a home in Ireland &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxOT1J3eXlSM0pNQzRpWGVtUWFOeHNBNlFaUVFqWjVyRjI2c081N1VrYjFHbkQwUVJfYl9YaTlnYnJkN0VfcElMYjZtXzhvUHFVQ0xfdmxaZDJjN2ZIQ3V4Y0QxY0ZmbldNMDNUcE1xUThFXzEwU3pCdk80S1h3alB3LVJlNk9DS2pPek5J?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;The system is broken&#8217;: Our readers&#8217; stories of the &#8216;madness&#8217; of bidding on a home in Ireland<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNZi1iU3I0ZEotY3k4S0piQW43dTVaZFhqOF8yUUc5RVZmOWJSRnRHbzBIUUk1aVJRaTJMcndJZ1d6TmZfT054REdoOGY2bUNCZHRLMU03SVVKNl9kTGtGSnFLQ0tNSlRZd2N1QWZjVFZtckxzX0QxNVJlZVlGd2hyWFM1WDlJem04WkFCVFlhcGF6cWd1dHc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Behind the Story: Auction fever and Starmer&#8217;s woes<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivAFBVV95cUxNenp3ZDBlMnVLcmZsMHRocnd5cWlxOWNxOU5NNWViTW50d3dCaml6WG9LRG11Zk5uY3A5dmFleEgzemwyYXlhdEoyb0hKVENQSHhlSExMbnpOQi1rU1VXNG9hNTlqbzEwN1ZxZHdJcGlEZkI1V2lFT3J1eUt2UV81ODZIOUd2NkFra3ZpYlFMNm80TUZ4eGxGX29SRnpDcTc0T1M3N0NnTU03QzlpbjBjcWp4Y082aHZsNC1iQw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">When one-third of Irish homebuyers expect to be ripped off, it\u2019s a big problem<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiogFBVV95cUxNa2p6cjFzRzBncFJOR0tFSlV5QmpPWmpUNU1Ya2xkVTJQT0RNa01QU29NTWhyWEQ5aDVZRHE1NE9YeEJKX1pIQ3p2U2NjbHJTWXBVNkxrN3RncXNqVmhXbHEtVllmYWxfVUdOMWZFUWdHdEIxMkg0R0k4VlR6TURBNWNveDdYZXE0Y01NdHZBRl9BLVdacTlnNTZEZ2FkbWo0MVE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aspects of homebuying \u2018archaic\u2019, Housing Minister says<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BreakingNews.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxOX2luMndUaGdHRGRmc1pqQXVHeGxhRTRpNlJGS1V3VnV6SWhHSDVyZXR3QW9YY2c5TGp2TFRxYWdNUDhCVFRyakpoMUo1MEx0RXhCVTNvaVpETDhvWEk1cC16TC12VXRJNEU5S2RJWXdlQWc3UGhGazJ5d0VPS2duQkpGNA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Open auctions lead to overbidding, says ESRI<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Midwest Radio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;The system is broken&#8217;: Our readers&#8217; stories of the &#8216;madness&#8217; of bidding on a home in Ireland&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalBehind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,615,25744,3014,3662,61,60,11259,42415],"class_list":["post-293750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dublin","tag-esri","tag-homes","tag-housing-crisis","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-the-morning-lead","tag-your-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}