Solicitor fees likely to rise. At present any practising solicitor is required to have professional indemnity insurance up to a value of €2.5 million (per claim) this... Continue reading
Precious Metals: Is Silver the Golden opportunity? Gold prices broke the $1,000 mark again and have been hovering around that mark for some time (today's spot price is $991.91), this is ... Continue reading
When will we get a real picture on repossessions in Ireland? The mood has definitely changed in the markets and across the world in the last year, we have gone from being on the precipice of total... Continue reading
Who owns geography? #dublinbikesfail I read an interesting blog post about a company called Fusio who made an iPhone application letting people know where the new bike sche... Continue reading
Moving paper or ‘selling your mortgage’. In the USA and Canada they sometimes refer to a process of 'moving paper' which is where a person sells their mortgage - the actual deb... Continue reading
NAMA uncovered Yesterday the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) legislation was brought out in the Dail (that's the Irish Government buildings fo... Continue reading
Bank margins after NAMA The current debate is raging over NAMA and the pricing of loans, much of it centres on the value of the properties in question and abou... Continue reading
A phonecall with Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute Sometimes when I'm having a rough day I decide to reach out to some of the people that I see on TV or read about in the press and talk ... Continue reading
Fast Track Repossessions, what does it mean? There has been an interesting development in the area of repossessions in recent weeks in which a property can be taken back (repossess... Continue reading