22 Jul RTE Talking Money: The cost of raising kids This week on RTE's 'Talking Money' we looked at the cost of raising a child. Everybody who ever had kids knows it's expensive, but did ... Continue reading
Loan to Value ratio – a video which explains what you need to know about it The 'loan to value' ratio is a key concept in mortgage lending, it is also extremely simple which makes the concept very easy to unders... Continue reading
17 Jul RTE Talking Money on Life Insurance Back in June (sorry for the delay, we had the recording but didn't post it!) we did a piece on life insurance and both how and why it m... Continue reading
17 Jul Talking Money – Switch your mortgage to save This week on 'Talking Money' Karl Deeter and Jill Kerby were discussing 'switching' with Cormac on RTE's Drivetime. It was coincidental... Continue reading
20 Mar Answer: The Central Bank don’t deal with mortgage complaints is why… We should probably pose the question, 'Why haven't the Central Bank dealt with any complaints about abuses of the Code of Conduct on Mo... Continue reading
02 Feb RTE Sean O’Rourke Show: Karl Deeter & Ronan Lyons on Central Bank rules Last week on the Sean O'Rourke Show Karl Deeter and Ronan Lyons (Trinity College & Daft.ie) had a good robust debate about lending ... Continue reading
20 Jan The problem of over-saving Just when we thought we heard it all in terms of the strange scenarios you encounter in credit, up pop's something new, the problem of ... Continue reading
11 Dec Rule 72, unlike rule 34 in every way You'll have to forgive the meme reference of 'Rule 34', because 'Rule 72' is a financial mathematics tool that helps you decide how lon... Continue reading
08 Dec RTE Morning Ireland: ask Irish Mortgage Brokers about homelessness We were asked by Morning Ireland to discuss homelessness and to iterate our view that the removal of bedsits which were a source of hou... Continue reading
08 Dec Irish Mortgage Brokers Oireachtas appearance discussed on RTE Radio 1 Our appearance at the Oireachtas finance committee was discussed on RTE Radio 1 on the day, it was about the proposal for mortgage lend... Continue reading