What next lenders? Here are some ideas about where we feel banks will go next in terms of the lending market, these are only opinions, whether or not we s... Continue reading
Save or get a mortgage? The current market probably confounds many consumers, should you be saving in order to have a bigger deposit in the belief that the pro... Continue reading
Peer to peer lending, maybe there is an alternative to banks? Have you ever lent a friend a tenner? If so you already understand ‘peer to peer‘ lending, this is where one person lends money to anot... Continue reading
Text message lending, an untapped market in Ireland? There is an untapped market in Ireland for text message lending, a type of lending that is common in Finland and Sweden. Recent article... Continue reading
Euribor, the distant cousin of the ECB base rate We have written in the past about tracker mortgages becoming an endangered species. It seems that now we are witnessing the demise of t... Continue reading
Calling the bottom, a time to put your money where your mouth is Perhaps the best way to show your sincerity is to show your hand, and by that I mean giving the people who are influenced by you an ins... Continue reading
The next movement of the ECB The ECB has always had inflation, or more accurately the ‘control of inflation’ as its only guiding light. The ECB raised rates by 0.25... Continue reading
Irish Mortgage Brokers: Not the subject of Primetime report. Primetime did a special last night on a company called MoneyZone who are part of Irish Mortgage Corporation, today I got an email askin... Continue reading
First time buyers didn’t, don’t, and won’t ever have it easy. Recently the credit crunch has taken a whole new turn, and the way it is affecting the Irish mortgage market is of interest to anybody ... Continue reading
I don’t know where ‘Oil’ be this time next year. Where is oil going? We have seen predictions of $200 per barrel from Goldman Sachs analyst Arjun Murti (he was the guy who was right ab... Continue reading