01 Nov Central Bank: solving the mortgage crisis by making it worse Yesterday was the proposed deadline for debt mediation firms to make their submissions to the Central Bank. The guidelines had only com... Continue reading
31 Oct Debt chronicles: There can be no solution for some people A while ago we decided to document some of the things we encounter as debt managers in order to give a taste of the experience from wit... Continue reading
RTE Prime Time: Property Trusts and freeman philosophy We were asked to take part in the Prime Time show about private property trusts and freemen philosophy. They are separate things but in... Continue reading
22 Oct What happens when you are in banks for a meeting… We often find ourselves (usually to our detriment) involved with meetings where a person brings us along to meet with the bank. Somethi... Continue reading
RTE News at 6: Department of Finance met to try and fix property market RTE obtained documents which showed the Department of Finance met with industry in order to suggest ways in which the property market c... Continue reading
08 Oct Why don’t more buy to let investors sell their properties? 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... Continue reading
07 Oct The Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013, a brief look under the hood 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 ... Continue reading
Arrears solution for a strategic defaulter: here’s a new plan you can ignore We make no secret of dealing with strategic defaulters, depending on the client we don't necessarily say that they are in that category... Continue reading
12 Sep Lickety split-mortgages: are they really a solution? #splitfail The calls for 'more split mortgages' are commonplace, what is often lacking is a deeper understanding of the flaws inherent. For instan... Continue reading
10 Sep Savage Sunday: Today FM 8th September 2013 The panel on this weeks Savage Sunday was Tony Williams, Kate Shanahan and Karl Deeter. The topics were Priory Hall, in particular KBC ... Continue reading