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31 Jan '12 |
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Multinationals still favour bigger cities despite IDA grants of ?450m for job growth
New figures show that most multinationals just visit Dublin when they are considering opening up new operations here and are loathe to create jobs outside of the big cities. - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '12 |
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O'Connell Street, Sligo: 'It used to be wonderful. Now it's a jungle'
?There?s no kerb appeal. It?s ugly. Those bollards are ugly. The pavements haven?t been extended even though the traffic has gone down to one-way. There?s nowhere to sit out and have a coffee. They to - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '12 |
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AIB fraud case against property tycoon halts
Accused of conning the bank into paying £740 million for high-profile properties by fraudulently claiming Achilleas Kallakis was in control of a billion-pound property empire. - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '12 |
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Landmark London cinema sold to hotel chain after Nama agreement
Estimated by some quarters to be a £100 million deal, it is likely to have proven highly lucrative for Real Estate Resolutions, a property company run by former Ballymore Properties executive Tim Farr - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '12 |
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Ulster Bank seeks to repossess ?1m house
ULSTER BANK has asked a judge to direct that Wexford accountant Alan Hynes, and his wife, Noreen, hand back a ?1 million investment property they bought in Blackrock, Co Dublin, four years ago. - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '12 |
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House of former Anglo chief Drumm is for sale at ?1.65m
The Irish Times has learned that a ?for sale? sign will be erected outside the 480sq m (5,167sq ft) property today on the instruction of Kathleen Dwyer, the Boston lawyer appointed to liquidate the as - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '12 |
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Sky to create 800 Dublin jobs
The new customer service centre will open in August in Burlington Plaza in Dublin's city centre. The broadcasting group said the centre will enable it to serve its Irish customers from one dedicated - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Slow progress on property taxes
With a property tax now inevitable and Mr Lyons having done much of the spadework, the Government should stop delaying and just get on with it. - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Property expert calls for ?625 tax on land instead of homes
"Three-quarters of Irish people's wealth is tied up in property, and yet it is untaxed. Those who argue for a wealth tax should support a site tax as it is effectively a tax on wealth." - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Gap widens between variable and tracker mortgages
MORTGAGE holders who have a variable interest rate are paying far more than those on a tracker mortgage, and the problem is getting worse, the Central Bank said yesterday. - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Greed put paid to many dreams
Sir -- Upon reading articles regarding the new lives of developers such as Sean Dunne, Derek Quinlan and so many more, I cannot but question the rationale behind the formation of Nama. - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Priory Hall fiasco 'tip of the iceberg'
"The building industry has been allowed to self-certify on a national basis. The result is that up to half of the existing housing stock has never been adequately inspected during construction," he - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Ex-boss of Custom House Capital to go under spotlight
HARRY Cassidy, the former chief executive of Custom House Capital, is expected to be a key witness in the garda investigation into the collapse of the investment house. - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Ballymore boss Mulryan going for gold as Olympic city booms
WHEN Ballymore's loans from Ireland's broken banks were first taken into Nama in 2010, they amounted to a staggering ?1.55bn. Less than two years on, Sean Mulryan's property group is understood to - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Gene Kerrigan: Everyone's fighting their corner but us
Over the past week, however, while robust citizens like Johnny Ronan have been fighting their corner, I've had to listen to feeble, ineffectual, spineless whimpering from the Government. - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Treasury and Nama: the end of the affair
Barrett's candid contribution to That'll Never Work: Success Stories from Private Irish Business -- a book replete with hubris and devoid of irony, published on the brink of the global economic cras - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Nama 'wants to look tough for taxpayer'
THE National Asset Management Agency has been accused of trying to target playboy developer Johnny Ronan because it wants to "look tough on behalf of the taxpayer". - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Ronan links to bidder damaged ?900m deal
Prior to its decision to press ahead with the appointment of Ernst & Young to upwards of 35 properties in Treasury's Irish portfolio, Nama received proposals through the group on behalf of Australian - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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O'Connell Street, Ireland - main streets of Ireland
What?s happening on O?Connell Street in Dungarvan is being replicated around the country. ?the street could end up vacant if the older traders leave. Rentals will plummet, and pop-up shops and fly-by - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '12 |
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Figures reveal how bank borrowing spree fuelled property bubble
Statistics on the website of the Central Statistics Office show how household credit levels, including mortgages, grew during the bubble years. It wasn?t noticed until later that during the bubble yea - Subscribe |
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