Naturally past economic cycles don't tell us exactly what will happen in the future, but as Mark Twain once said 'history doesn't repea...

It was announced yesterday that First Active is going to close operations in Ireland. This will start with 750 job losses coming into e...

Our firm has seen a rise in what we describe as the Contract/Valuation trap, so we will tell you what it is and how to avoid it as well...

I was asked by a colleague in the UK to provide an overview of the Irish mortgage market, he has often advised the Bank of England in t...

Our firm are witnessing a conundrum in the market which is causing both clients and the broker a huge amount of heartache. It is that ...

If the State can't organise a bailout effectively then what hope have they of running a bank? A simple and yet profound question: if th...

Today the Irish Times had an article about an American University opening a college here, in Dungarvan Co. Waterford. It occured to me ...

I had an interesting conversation with an Estate Agent recently who has been in the industry for over thirty years and he said that he ...

Often companies and economists make forecasts and predictions about the direction of the economy, so it is interesting that two of the ...

The ECB generally maintain that they are there to control inflation, normally we interpret this as ensuring that prices don't get out o...

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