14 Oct

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...

08 Oct

Joanne Daly has been a broker for 13 years and in this piece she speaks to Karl Deeter about the errors that first time buyers make pri...

31 Aug

Something that comes up with regular frequency is a question about 'being a first time buyer'. The simple version is 'one of us bought ...

19 Aug

The Central Bank rules on curtailing mortgage lending have had an interesting effect, first is that we are seeing more loans draw down ...

02 Feb

Last week on the Sean O'Rourke Show Karl Deeter and Ronan Lyons (Trinity College & Daft.ie) had a good robust debate about lending ...

Chris Donoghue interviewed Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers regarding the rule changes that were brought in by the Central Bank an...

28 Jan

Anton had Karl Deeter on to discuss the proposed mortgage loan caps that were being discussed by the Central Bank. Our view is that som...

20 Jan

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 ...

12 Jan

We have commented several times since last year that the trend for mortgage rates in 2015 will be to see them drop. With spreads of c. ...

05 Dec

We submitted a paper to the Central Bank on the mortgage cap proposal they have put out for consultation. Our view is that apart from b...

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