07 Nov Deise AM: Billy and Karl on people paying mortgages into their 70’s We discussed the research that showed people expect to be paying mortgages into their 70's. Continue reading
07 Nov RTE 2fm Colm Hayes Show discussing new AIB and IMHO partnership We were asked to comment on the new AIB and IMHO partnership. There are several aspects to this that we find unsatisfactory, however we... Continue reading
01 Nov Central Bank: solving the mortgage crisis by making it worse Yesterday was the proposed deadline for debt mediation firms to make their submissions to the Central Bank. The guidelines had only com... Continue reading
31 Oct Debt chronicles: There can be no solution for some people A while ago we decided to document some of the things we encounter as debt managers in order to give a taste of the experience from wit... Continue reading
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