House prices are on the move! Sherry FitzGerald said yesterday that property prices fell 4.5% in the second quarter of the year having fallen 1.9% in the first quart... Continue reading
Online Mortgages for consumers and electronic documents. The next phase of the Irish mortgage market, and certainly the Irish broker market is to overcome the intensive levels of paper creatio... Continue reading
A tale of two commissions. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belie... Continue reading
Branch distribution by banks is dead. We have seen headlines heralding the ‘death’ of brokers, however perhaps we need to look at the whole financial distribution market and... Continue reading
‘For what it’s worth’ the concept of property prices. There is an unusual disparity at the moment in the property auction market versus the rest of the market, and that primarily lies in th... Continue reading
The curse of ‘F’ words. At the moment we are seeing two ‘F’ words which are inflating rapidly, namely, Food and Fuel. In todays post we will look at the positi... Continue reading
The Credibility Crisis I have written before about what can be termed a ‘credibility crisis’ and when I used that terminology it was in reference to the colla... Continue reading
Your loss my Grain. I have spoken in length about agflation in 2008 and as much as I’d love to to consign the whole topic to history, however much like a f... Continue reading
All animals are created equal, but some are more ‘equal’ than others The title of todays post is of course from George Orwell’s book ‘Animal Farm’ and in it the Pigs used this rationale to place themselve... Continue reading
How to fix city traffic for a tenner There were articles in the papers over the weekends about Dublin City Councils plans for banning private vehicles altogether from O’Con... Continue reading