U.S Housing Giants Continue Losses Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are known to be “too big to fail”....at least that’s what the U.S had said up until the 2008 financial crisi... Continue reading
The Housing Markets most Pressing Issue Ireland's “most pressing issue”... The lack of housing. Economist Philip O'Sullivan is reported as saying that tens of thousands mor... Continue reading
18 Jan First time buyers who don’t buy new homes First time buyers have been asking 'what about those of us who are not buying a new home? Why don't we get any help like the people usi... Continue reading
Ireland AM feature Irish Mortgage Brokers, 4th January 2017 Mark Cagney had Karl Deeter from Irish Mortgage Brokers on to talk about the launch of the 'help to buy' scheme, how it would work and ... Continue reading
30 Mar VAT cuts in construction, who would get the benefit and why? VAT is an end user tax, the 'cost' to businesses is zero. That fact is often overlooked in all debates about VAT, a business has input ... 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
31 Aug One of us isn’t a first time buyer, so can we get 90%? Something that comes up with regular frequency is a question about 'being a first time buyer'. The simple version is 'one of us bought ... Continue reading
27 Aug RTE Talking Money – AirBnB (making a house pay), 17th August 2015 With Revenue set to receive the names of over 9,000 AirBnB 'hosts' we looked at the implications of this as well as other ways to make ... Continue reading
19 Aug Talking Money: Downsizing your home, 3rd August 2015 Last week on Drivetime's 'Talking Money' we discussed the idea of 'downsizing' your home and what it means, how to do it, and the thing... Continue reading
Irish Mortgage Brokers at the inaugural Euromoney Conference The EuroMoney conference was held for the firs time in Dublin last week and opened by the Minister of Finance Michael Noonan. It had a ... Continue reading