14 Sep The unaffordability index of Irish housing 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... Continue reading
01 Sep 2016 Mortgage lending rules submission by Irish Mortgage Brokers We sent our research and thoughts on the lending rules to the Central Bank as part of their industry consultation process regarding the... Continue reading
14 Mar Newstalk have Irish Mortgage Brokers on to discuss Central Bank rules We were speaking on Newstalk about Central Bank rules and the impact they are having on different parts of the market. Some of the nota... Continue reading
07 Mar Bigger deposits equal less savings. An often overlooked aspect of finance is that mortgages are actually a brand of savings, as perverse as that may sound, you have to con... Continue reading
09 Feb Irish Times article featuring Irish Mortgage Brokers Conor Pope from the Irish Times had an interesting article on lending restrictions and did a good piece on it in today's paper. In the ... Continue reading
01 Feb Irish Mortgage Brokers mentioned in the Independent In an article by Sinead Ryan in the Independent we were quoted on several matters: With all the talk of celebrating the Rising in 20... Continue reading
25 Nov The rich will prosper when the rules make sure they do. We have been critics of the Central Bank mortgage lending caps, believing instead that a rule similar to section 149 of the Consumer Cr... Continue reading
17 Nov Irish Times mention Irish Mortgage Brokers in article about renting We were quoted in a this piece by Aoife Valentine of the Irish Times which was an interesting article about the situation renters face.... Continue reading
14 Oct Podcast: Who lends the most to those with the least? Barry Clarke discusses in episode 00002 A thing that people usually miss out on when they don't deal with a broker is the 'unwritten' criteria of banks or the market segmentat... Continue reading