07 Mar Insolvency Service Ireland putting regulation first? The Insolvency Service of Ireland are already starting in on audits of regulated providers to ensure they have the proper procedures in... Continue reading
06 Mar Getting through the heavy lifting of debt mediation, one result at a time We had another successful outcome with a lender and thought that it might be worth describing in terms of how it came about and how it ... Continue reading
Primetime: Tanya Sillem looks at the rental market Tanya Sillem of PrimeTime looked at the rental market and how many people are facing difficult increases in rental prices. Lorcan Sirr ... Continue reading
28 Feb RTE The Late Debate, on housing 26th February 2014 The Late Debate had a piece on housing featuring Labour TD Dominic Hannigan, Dr. Mary Murphy from NUIM and Karl Deeter. Continue reading
19 Feb We don’t have recourse to the FSO, wholesale repossessions & other IBRC myths The hype-machine is in full throttle on the sale of the former INBS loans. The fear being that some large evil hedge-fund is out there ... Continue reading
14 Feb Protection of Residential Mortgage Account Holders Bill 2014 Normally I expect a better outing from Fianna Fail - in particular where Michael McGrath is concerned. Their new bill for protecting mo... Continue reading
11 Feb NAMA can’t ‘opt in’ to regulation Something that has been circulating of late is that if NAMA buy the Irish Nationwide (subsumed into IBRC) loan book that they will foll... Continue reading
11 Feb Could the new AIB split mortgage be illegal? In the Sunday Business Post yesterday an article appeared which explained the new AIB split mortgage deal. We sought details of this fr... Continue reading
04 Feb The 2,000 Irish evictions you dont’ hear about There may be close to 2,000 evictions that won't be in the papers. There will be no pictures of people being forced from the home their... Continue reading
21 Jan Rent control, a misguided policy that just won’t go away The idea of rent control is always a compelling one, that by decree you simply say 'the price can't rise' and then it doesn't. That thi... Continue reading