03 Mar Economic factors affecting the Irish property market (part II) Unemployment The causes of these dramatic price movements in such a short period are numerous as mentioned in the introduction but une... Continue reading
02 Mar Economic Factors affecting Irish Property Market (part I) Background: The Irish residential property market has gone from a period of spectacular growth, to a dramatic crash and lately to reco... Continue reading
08 Feb We know what to do but will we do it? This article first appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 7th of February 2016 Below is some well-intentioned advice on what coul... Continue reading
03 Feb Independent Newspaper mentions Irish Mortgage Brokers In an article today about mortgages by John Cradden of the Irish Independent we were quoted extensively regarding our thoughts on loans... Continue reading
18 Jan Contracts, not silly rules, are the better form of rent regulation Something often forgotten are the lessons from history, in recent debates about spiralling rents and other such issues, the one thing t... Continue reading
14 Jan Behavioural economics and pensions There was a fascinating paper published by the pensions institute in 2010 entitled 'spend more today' and it was about ways to encourag... 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
05 Jan The big switch The time is coming near where One Big Switch say they will be shaking up the mortgage market in Ireland by using the power of group per... Continue reading
10 Nov Pre-emptive insolvency, the time is now. A headline today caught our attention, it was about an injunction to have an insolvency solution honoured. Personal insolvency is a le... Continue reading
09 Nov Newstalk Sunday Show: A discussion on the ‘Tsunami of repossessions’ that hasn’t arrived On Newstalk's 'The Sunday Show' Shane Coleman spoke to Karl Deeter (of Irish Mortgage Brokers) and David Hall of the IMHO. It was to c... Continue reading