08 Oct

We did some research with Marie Hunt of CBRE and Brian Lucey of Trinity College on 'buy to let' investors looking at their behaviour (i...

07 Oct

This is a piece of legislation currently at Bill stage, I can't help but think they didn't get anybody involved in the actual mortgage ...

Diarmaid Ferriter is smarter than I ever hope to be, I love hearing him fill in for George Hook and read almost anything I ever come ac...

17 Sep

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

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

15 Aug

Robert Kitchen of NUIM did a great post on people talking up the market. He stated that "What the data shows is that housing unit sales...

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...

12 Aug

The 'Coleman at Large' show featured Donal O'Donovan (formerly of the IMF), Regina Breheny (Irish Venture Capital Association) and Karl...

08 Aug

When I heard that Dublin City Council was considering a tax on undeveloped sites I nearly choked on my coffee. The introduction of the ...

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