Fall off in Residential mortgage borrowing, precursor to a property crash? Latest figures from the Central Bank show that residential mortgage borrowing in the first half of the year has slowed by up to 25%, co... Continue reading
House prices 2007, Current Housing Market Summary It has been well documented that house prices deflated somewhat in the first half of 2007. The thriving rental market is being driven p... Continue reading
Booming rental market brings good news for buy to let investors The fact that the Irish rental market is currently experiencing the highest levels of year-on-year growth it has seen in the last five ... Continue reading
Section 50 Tax Relief Explained Many of us have heard of Section 23 incentives, but not as many of us are familiar with Section 50 tax relief. This is a ‘section 23 ty... Continue reading
First Time Buyers reaping the reward of a property crash. You might think that being a first time buyer now would be a risky situation to be in, however in this article I think it will point ou... Continue reading
Affordable Housing, a practical alternative… Affordable housing is a term commonly thought to have been synonymous with ‘social housing'. It is possible that this common misconcept... Continue reading
Consumer Spending Fuels the Economy Recent speculation in relation to the immediate future of the Irish economy has been largely pessimistic in content. This is mainly due... Continue reading
Why buy an Investment Property? Capital Appreciation Potential Property has always been an excellent long term investment and although there are no guarantees to futur... Continue reading
Ways to cope with raising rates… There have been eight consecutive interest rate hikes and that is making loans, to say the least, very damn expensive! However, that do... Continue reading
Stagnation in the Irish Property and Mortgage Market As I write this news has just flashed saying that the Dollar has weakened on the basis of new woes in the sub-prime market in the USA a... Continue reading