30 Jul

As we track the Irish mortgage market, the soaring prices are blamed much on the shortage in supply alongside a growing demand. The la...

29 Jan

Antoin Murphy was and remains one of the most fascinating economic historians in Ireland, his work on John Law is internationally recog...

06 Mar

It bothers me when people promote long-term renting as a better choice than home ownership because it belies some basic facts. When I ...

18 Jan

First time buyers have been asking 'what about those of us who are not buying a new home? Why don't we get any help like the people usi...

Mark Cagney had Karl Deeter from Irish Mortgage Brokers on to talk about the launch of the 'help to buy' scheme, how it would work and ...

04 Jan

Yesterday Revenue announced the details of the new ‘help to buy’ scheme. It is designed to make buying a home more realistic for first ...

20 Dec

A lot of people come to us for general financial advice and something we are asked about more regularly are PCP contracts. This is wher...

29 Sep

We were featured in today's Irish Times on an article by Barry McCall asking 'why do we have housing shortages'. Our contribution is a...

14 Sep

This picture speaks a thousand words and in many cases tens of thousands of earnings that a person would have to have in order to affor...

01 Sep

We sent our research and thoughts on the lending rules to the Central Bank as part of their industry consultation process regarding the...

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