01 Jun Negative interest rates are both gone and here at the same time. Many commentators are talking about the end of negative interest rates in nominal terms and it's true, interest rates are rising but in... Continue reading
19 Apr Types of mortgages and lending rules Irish law has specialized sets of lending rules depending on the type of mortgage application. Types of applications are split into thr... Continue reading
12 Jun First time buyer steps explained Being able to take out a mortgage has become a major hassle for all types of home buyers, but especially first time buyers. Recently, a... Continue reading
11 Mar Drivetime RTE: Mary Wilson speaks to Karl Deeter about housing, 7th March 2016 Mary Wilson discussed current housing issues with Karl Deeter on the back of a story by Charlie Weston in the Independent about first t... 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
06 Jun RTE Drivetime: ECB rate changes analysed with Mary Wilson Mary Wilson spoke with us about the two changes in the ECB rate policy, the first being negative interest rates on overnight deposits f... Continue reading
16 May RTE Drivetime: Mary Wilson speaks to Irish Mortgage Brokers Mary Wilson spoke to Karl Deeter about some of the housing issues being faced by the country on RTE's Drivetime. The point was made tha... Continue reading
10 Jun Sunday Business Post – Deposits This story appeared in the print and online edition of the Sunday Business Post on the 9th of June 2013. Another banking win is how so... Continue reading
Paying for an Irish haircut with a Cypriot haircut We don't know the individual profile of every depositor in Cyprus but we do have some gross numbers, there are about 19,000 depositors ... Continue reading
DIRT rate increased to 33% The normal DIRT rate will increase from 30% to 33% with effect from 1st January 2013 onwards. The DIRT rate applying to deposit tracker... Continue reading