Mortgage Rescue Schemes, failed policy. Internationally mortgage rescue schemes have been an abject failure from the perspective of using the success of their mission statemen... Continue reading
10 Simple ideas the Expert Group mostly missed out on 1. Mandatory Mortgage Indemnity Guarantees (MIG’s) for all residential loans over 75% LTV - that way if the loan goes bad the shortfall... Continue reading
What are the real arrears figures? Today's figures show that there are 40,472 households in arrears, the Expert Group said that 45,000 have rescheduled their loan with a ... Continue reading
RTE 6 O’Clock News, 11th November 2010 – on Property Tax and Debt Forgiveness RTE 6 O'Clock News - 11th November 2010, Debt forgiveness from Irish Mortgage Brokers on Vimeo. Both the 6 and the 9 news followed up ... Continue reading
Let’s have some fun…. Bond Style We have been shaken, and the markets are stirred. Why not have fun in our final days? When asked what I'd do if I was on a plane that w... Continue reading
The issue with the case against ‘Reckless lending’ In operations I have two main roles, firstly is the obvious operational aspect of any company which has to do with logistics of loan su... Continue reading
Are investment property owners ‘hard pressed’? PTsb are going to take away investors tracker mortgages unless they go to capital and interest payments, that story was broken by Charl... Continue reading
Strong Currency There is an automatic assumption that a strong currency (in particular against the USD) leads to a difficult exporting position because... Continue reading
The Heirarchy in AIB (and any bank for that matter) It is simple, and it is straight forward, there is a line of people who take the pain when banks encounter problems and it goes like th... Continue reading
The importance of Land or Site Value Taxation, Fred Harrison, Karl Deeter and Stephen Reed Continue reading