Motorly Market Index

Method and limitations

• Price and fuel statistics use a bounded sample of active adverts with asking prices above €500. The median is the middle asking price after sorting, or the average of the two middle prices for an even sample.
• Third-party adverts must have been observed in the last 14 days. Active first-party Motorly adverts may have older or missing observation dates.
• One car may be advertised more than once. Advert counts are not counts of unique vehicles, and the sample is not a random or complete survey of Ireland.
• Inventory totals are estimates. New-listing counts scale the share of recently first-observed adverts to that estimated inventory; first observed does not necessarily mean first advertised.
• New-listing activity compares estimated new adverts with a reference of one twenty-sixth of estimated inventory, using a 15% band either side. It is a heuristic, not an observed increase or decrease over time.
• An advert has left the market when it stops being observed on the monitored sources; the headline counts the last 30 days. An advert seen again later, or a car still on sale on another monitored site, is not counted. Leaving the market does not confirm a sale, its price or the reason the advert ended.
• Listing turnover compares adverts that left the market in 30 days with estimated inventory: high above 15%, moderate above 5%, otherwise low.
• Fuel shares describe advertised stock in the sample. They do not measure registrations or national EV adoption.
• When citing this page, retain the snapshot date (7 November 2026), sample size (12,000 active adverts), asking-price basis and estimation limits.

Questions or corrections: john@motorly.ie. Individual price-badge methodology.