03 Oct

Mortgage rates are rising, but at the time of writing they are higher in Germany than in Ireland, that isn't the strange bit though. W...

01 Jun

Many commentators are talking about the end of negative interest rates in nominal terms and it's true, interest rates are rising but in...

18 May

What is happening with interest rates? Interest rates rise and fall, we have been in a secular-ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) enviro...

30 May

This was an interesting piece by Louise McBride in the Sunday Independent. The assumptions were based on a fairly hefty mortgage figure...

UTV hosted a conversation about the new Mortgage Bill that went through the Dail last night. The conversation was hosted by Claire Broc...

11 Mar

The Irish Times mentioned Irish Mortgage Brokers in their story by Arthur Beesley and Eoin Burke-Kennedy on the rate cut by the ECB fro...

01 Feb

We were never advocates or in agreement with the 'make government force mortgage rates down' campaign (albeit on very friendly terms wi...

25 Mar

We have been asked a few times about fixed mortgage rates and why they are lower than standard variable rates at the moment. This has ...

27 Jun

Keelin Shanley was sitting in for Sean O'Rourke on the Today Show on RTE Radio 1. She had Brian Lucey and Karl Deeter on the show to di...

It has been a while since I posted on the yield curve, the main reason was that I lost my daily treasury letter from Bank of Scotland w...

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