18 Jan A picture speaks 256,000 words The Surveyors Journal did an excellent info-graphic on how much it costs to build a house (with no land cost factored in) It's fairly ... Continue reading
18 Jan Contracts, not silly rules, are the better form of rent regulation Something often forgotten are the lessons from history, in recent debates about spiralling rents and other such issues, the one thing t... Continue reading
06 Jan Why people will still invest in property in 2016 We plan to go through the maths soon of why the tax breaks that ended in 2014 were a bigger driver of a slow down in the market than th... Continue reading
25 Nov How criticism is meant to sound In Ireland we are often publicly coy about saying what we mean, in particular as a person departs or dies the tendency is to wax lyrica... Continue reading
25 Nov The rich will prosper when the rules make sure they do. We have been critics of the Central Bank mortgage lending caps, believing instead that a rule similar to section 149 of the Consumer Cr... Continue reading
12 Nov Newstalk: Pat Kenny & Karl Deeter discuss ‘rent certainty’ and construction Pat Kenny had Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers on his show to discuss 'rent certainty' and some aspects of construction as well as... Continue reading
04 Nov Drivetime RTE: Karl Deeter on pan-European Mortgages In this piece on RTE's flagship evening show 'Drivetime' Karl spoke about how mortgages being 'cross boarder' may not result in better ... Continue reading
15 Oct Tenants don’t actually want ‘rent certainty’ This post is written by Karl Deeter in a personal capacity. I help to manage about 20 tenancies in different buildings, and lately we ... Continue reading
17 Sep Can one person in a married couple take out a mortgage? This is a question we regularly get, and it's a tricky answer because it's both 'yes' and 'no'. If the property is a homeloan the answe... Continue reading
01 Sep Morning Ireland airs our idea to help the homeless We were really pleased that Morning Ireland covered our joint idea with Fr. Peter McVerry on a way to help reduce pressure in the rente... Continue reading