01 Feb DECLG has ‘No Clue’ on housing alludes DIT Housing Lecturer Lorcan Sirr, a housing lecturer at Dublin Institute of Technology in Bolton Street has been very critical of the Department of Environm... Continue reading
01 Feb Mortgage rates falling and set to head even lower We were never advocates or in agreement with the 'make government force mortgage rates down' campaign (albeit on very friendly terms wi... Continue reading
22 Jan Pepper spice up mortgage competition We are delighted to see a new mortgage lender entering the Irish mortgage market to provide homeloans (rather than to merely service ot... Continue reading
22 Jan Newstalk 106: Pat Kenny talks to Irish Mortgage Brokers The Pat Kenny show on Newstalk 106FM had Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers and Carol Tallon of BuyersBrokers on to discuss the prop... Continue reading
18 Jan A picture speaks 256,000 words The Surveyors Journal did an excellent info-graphic on how much it costs to build a house (with no land cost factored in) It's fairly ... Continue reading
18 Jan Contracts, not silly rules, are the better form of rent regulation Something often forgotten are the lessons from history, in recent debates about spiralling rents and other such issues, the one thing t... Continue reading
14 Jan Behavioural economics and pensions There was a fascinating paper published by the pensions institute in 2010 entitled 'spend more today' and it was about ways to encourag... Continue reading
06 Jan Why people will still invest in property in 2016 We plan to go through the maths soon of why the tax breaks that ended in 2014 were a bigger driver of a slow down in the market than th... Continue reading
05 Jan The big switch The time is coming near where One Big Switch say they will be shaking up the mortgage market in Ireland by using the power of group per... Continue reading
25 Nov How criticism is meant to sound In Ireland we are often publicly coy about saying what we mean, in particular as a person departs or dies the tendency is to wax lyrica... Continue reading