22 Oct PTsb – catching us off guard with well thought out new offerings If you weren't in the industry since before 2008 you could be for thinking that we only see bad banking decisions and negativity on a o... Continue reading
22 Oct What happens when you are in banks for a meeting… We often find ourselves (usually to our detriment) involved with meetings where a person brings us along to meet with the bank. Somethi... 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
01 Oct Today with Sean O’Rourke: talking property 27th September 2013 We spoke to Sean O'Rourke about the increased prices in Dublin and what they do or don't mean, in our opinion it's a case of a symptom ... 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
AIB experiment proving there are no answers (at least no easy answers) Something that was disclosed to me in an interview with Brendan O'Connor, AIB's Head of Financial Solutions Group (they side of the com... 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