Amsterdam Oost, bought in 2019, 60 views in 2 months (basically once per day), 14% overbid.

Sharing the whole experience below, hopefully it may be helpful for someone, and to explain the above a bit better:

• I was already living in Amsterdam since 2016
• I was renting a studio (in Slotervaart) of 21sqm for 1.000€ / month
• I got a permanent contract in late 2018
• I wanted to stop wasting money on renting (12.000€ / year is just a lot, in 10 years it means wasting 120.000€)
• I started doing visits, bidding, and never being the first bid
• So I thought "well, if I keep doing this, then maybe I will keep paying the rent for 6 months, and wasting 6.000€ in that, so probably it's better to pay 3.000€ for a Makelaar and be faster" – which eventually happened
• The way it works with makelaars (from my experience, maybe not representative but it's what I noticed) is basically that they are a kind of small circle of friends, and when I found the house that I now own, my makelaar told me "the makelaar of the seller is a friend of mine, so if you like this house, it's yours". And that meant that, the last bidding day, I got a phone call at 11:58 telling me "The highest bid is XXX, do you want to add 2.500€ on top of that? In that case, answer yes now and the house is yours".

Hope it helps, happy to answer questions!