Primetime: A discussion on rent controls 3rd March 2014 We took part in a studio debate on PrimeTime with Claire Byrne about rent control. In favour there was Labour Senator and Chairperson o... Continue reading
28 Feb RTE The Late Debate, on housing 26th February 2014 The Late Debate had a piece on housing featuring Labour TD Dominic Hannigan, Dr. Mary Murphy from NUIM and Karl Deeter. Continue reading
19 Feb We don’t have recourse to the FSO, wholesale repossessions & other IBRC myths The hype-machine is in full throttle on the sale of the former INBS loans. The fear being that some large evil hedge-fund is out there ... Continue reading
14 Feb Protection of Residential Mortgage Account Holders Bill 2014 Normally I expect a better outing from Fianna Fail - in particular where Michael McGrath is concerned. Their new bill for protecting mo... Continue reading
Morning Edition, Newspaper review 12th February 2014 We were on RTE's Morning Edition, our contribution was (oddly enough) about dogs and how to resolve the problem with what are described... Continue reading
11 Feb NAMA can’t ‘opt in’ to regulation Something that has been circulating of late is that if NAMA buy the Irish Nationwide (subsumed into IBRC) loan book that they will foll... Continue reading
11 Feb Could the new AIB split mortgage be illegal? In the Sunday Business Post yesterday an article appeared which explained the new AIB split mortgage deal. We sought details of this fr... Continue reading
How does a mortgage holder get a writedown when banks sell their loan? Tonight on RTE's Primetime they are going to cover the dilemma some IBRC mortgage holders (residential mortgage holders from both Irish... Continue reading
06 Feb An unusual mortgage approval That banks are lending enough is evidenced in gross lending contraction, that they simply 'aren't lending' is factually incorrect. We e... Continue reading
06 Feb Details of the new AIB debt write-down scheme The information available at present is limited and the only thing we were able to obtain in terms of hard fact is that people on track... Continue reading