The headline statistic is that buyers will pay almost €5,000 extra to live close to a primary school, but the report is full of more interesting and at times conflicting findings.
It is worth pointing out that the study defines 'close to' as within 200m of a school, these property prices are compared to houses 500m or more away from a school.
Buyers will pay €25,540 extra to be close to a primary school in south county Dublin, and only €2,725 extra to be close to a secondary school.
The amount that is paid to be close to a primary school is between 9.3 and 9.5 times what you will pay to be next to a secondary school in every part of Dublin.
Waterford puts the lowest premium on being next to a primary school, amounting to only €1,435.
The average premium across Munster is only €1,904.
In urban areas people will pay 2.1 percent more to be next to a post-primary school, but rural dwellers will only pay 0.1 percent extra - a number so small that it is questionable whether it can be classed as an influencing factor.
The study contradicts conventional wisdom that being next to a 'good school' (one that sees a high rate of its students continue on to third-level education) will mean higher property prices - this data says that people put the same premium on being next to any school, regardless of the school's performance.
Being near a fee-paying school is valued 0.1 percent higher than being next to a non fee-paying school.
The data regarding how the religious ethos of a school affects the value that people put on living close to it makes for interesting reading.
Families will put a 2.6 percent premium on being next to a Catholic primary school, a 2.4 percent premium to being next to a non-religious primary school, and 2.3 percent on being next to a primary school with a different religious ethos.
For secondary schools these results are inverted; buyers will pay a 2.2 percent premium to be next to a school with a religious ethos that is not Catholic, 1.9 percent to be next to a Catholic school, and only 1.8 percent to live near a non-religious post-primary school.
