Watch what you say (on social media) the banks are listening Something that has been a trend for quite some time is that various people are looking at your social media, not with a view to laughin... Continue reading
18 Nov Don’t pay the investment mortgage, just pay us Something that is often overlooked when people hear mortgage statistics is the various shenanigans that are going on underneath the hea... Continue reading
RTE News at 6: Department of Finance met to try and fix property market RTE obtained documents which showed the Department of Finance met with industry in order to suggest ways in which the property market c... Continue reading
08 Oct Why don’t more buy to let investors sell their properties? We did some research with Marie Hunt of CBRE and Brian Lucey of Trinity College on 'buy to let' investors looking at their behaviour (i... Continue reading
07 Oct The Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013, a brief look under the hood This is a piece of legislation currently at Bill stage, I can't help but think they didn't get anybody involved in the actual mortgage ... Continue reading
13 Sep How much did ECB rate cuts help borrowers in Ireland? About €6,000 actually. There is normally some mention of how a rate cut saves a borrower €x amount on their monthly mortgage, but how much has it done so sinc... Continue reading
13 Sep Some Irish mortgage statistics worth considering We all know the headline arrears figures and that they are a disaster. Take a look at some of the other figures which don't make it in... Continue reading
Arrears solution for a strategic defaulter: here’s a new plan you can ignore We make no secret of dealing with strategic defaulters, depending on the client we don't necessarily say that they are in that category... Continue reading
12 Sep Lickety split-mortgages: are they really a solution? #splitfail The calls for 'more split mortgages' are commonplace, what is often lacking is a deeper understanding of the flaws inherent. For instan... Continue reading
10 Sep Let’s take the emotion out of strategic default (this article originally appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 8th of September 2013) The term 'strategic default' lacks a defini... Continue reading