12 Sep

The calls for 'more split mortgages' are commonplace, what is often lacking is a deeper understanding of the flaws inherent. For instan...

10 Sep

The panel on this weeks Savage Sunday was Tony Williams, Kate Shanahan and Karl Deeter. The topics were Priory Hall, in particular KBC ...

10 Sep

(this article originally appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 8th of September 2013) The term 'strategic default' lacks a defini...

06 Sep

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...

20 Aug

We obtained a copy of the Kilkenny Trust 'trust document', our sources say it's a copy and paste job at best with some additional non-i...

19 Aug

The banks are constantly issuing threatening letters, we have posted many of them here. We have seen it all at this stage, couples in t...

19 Aug

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...

19 Aug

One of the things the whole strategic default issue lacks is any set definition. There are words that get used with motives embedded in...

14 Aug

Something that was a strong point of (supposed) fact in the meeting at Kilkenny was that mortgage loans now are not called 'mortgage lo...

14 Aug

That strategic defaulters do or don't is just a sideshow about quantifying their numbers, for several years we have been dealing with t...

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