RTE News at 6: Department of Finance met to try and fix property market RTE obtained documents which showed the Department of Finance met with industry in order to suggest ways in which the property market c... Continue reading
AIB experiment proving there are no answers (at least no easy answers) Something that was disclosed to me in an interview with Brendan O'Connor, AIB's Head of Financial Solutions Group (they side of the com... Continue reading
13 Sep Some Irish mortgage statistics worth considering We all know the headline arrears figures and that they are a disaster. Take a look at some of the other figures which don't make it in... Continue reading
12 Sep Lickety split-mortgages: are they really a solution? #splitfail The calls for 'more split mortgages' are commonplace, what is often lacking is a deeper understanding of the flaws inherent. For instan... Continue reading
10 Sep Let’s take the emotion out of strategic default (this article originally appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 8th of September 2013) The term 'strategic default' lacks a defini... Continue reading
06 Sep 2fm with Colm Hayes: Mortgage Defaults We spoke to Colm Hayes on 2fm about the issue of non-engagement by some borrowers, it is important to stress that this is not the 'aver... Continue reading
06 Sep Ray Darcy Show Today FM on loan defaults with Anton Savage We discussed mortgage defaults with the Ray Darcy Show which was presented by Anton Savage Continue reading
06 Sep RTE Radio 1: Ireland AM – AIB claims of ‘strategic default’ We were asked to speak on Morning Ireland about AIB's claim that there are significant numbers of strategic defaulters. While they don'... Continue reading
19 Aug What banking insiders think of what banks are going to do We got a comment on our site from an ex-banker who heard a radio segment where we were talking about banks and repossessions. We got in... Continue reading
19 Aug Spin me right round’ – some thoughts on IBF data In statistics there are two key components, the first is the actual 'data' the second is the 'inference' or what the data actually mean... Continue reading