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© Irish Independent |
10 Sep '10 |
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Soaring home loan rates push cost of living to two-year high
There are 237,000 people in the variable-rate category and with all lenders, including AIB, Bank of Ireland, EBS and Irish Nationwide, pushing up rates in recent months, some householders have had to - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
06 Sep '10 |
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Thousands of debtors' properties frozen by lenders
The Irish Independent has learnt that 4,159 properties have been frozen by means of a judgment mortgage this year alone, more than double the amount of judgment mortgages registered in 2007. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
06 Sep '10 |
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Mortgages in difficulty
In an interim report in July, a Government-appointed expert group on mortgage arrears and personal debt made some recommendations to help to improve the position of families in arrears. It will comple - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
05 Sep '10 |
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Will you fix in future?
Ronnie O’Toole, chief economist of National Irish Bank, said he thought the ECB would keep interest rates on hold until the final quarter of 2011, adding that increases would be slow when they came. H - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
05 Sep '10 |
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The big mortgage questions
Karl Deeter, of Irish Mortgage Brokers, said banks were keen to see savings of at least 10 per cent of the purchase price for a deposit. He said that mortgage applicants also needed to show savings to - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
05 Sep '10 |
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Keeping up with mortgage moves
For potential buyers, less cash in their pocket reduces their buying power and makes it harder to get a foot on the property ladder. Here, we consider five of the main trends in the mortgage market, a - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
03 Sep '10 |
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Charlie Weston: Joke is on homeowners as tracker loans haunt banks
Broker body PIBA (the Professional Insurance Brokers Association) said the gap was widening between tracker repayment levels and other mortgage rates. Just because the ECB again left its key rate on h - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
02 Sep '10 |
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One in 20 mortgages now in arrears - up almost 40 per cent in one year
According to Ronan O’Driscoll, a director with property agents Savills, one of the more worrying aspects of the statistics is the number of people falling into long-term arrears. While more than 1,000 - Subscribe |
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© Irish Mortgage Broker blog |
02 Sep '10 |
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Mortgage Arrears for the first half of 2010
When property markets reach clearing prices you have better odds of economic recovery, but we are not allowing this to happen, and it means that people who do buy today are paying too much because all - Subscribe |
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© Irish Examiner |
02 Sep '10 |
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Call for banks to reverse rate hikes amid surge in mortgage arrears
Irish Mortgage Corporation, Frank Conway: Lenders need to be cognoscente that mortgage holders have an upper limit as to how much they can afford their mortgage repayments increasing and balance those - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
29 Aug '10 |
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Banks shut doors to new homes
But speaking in the spanking new offices of the well-known company, the message from this young finance director is clear: despite their repeated assertions to the contrary, AIB and Bank of Ireland ar - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
27 Aug '10 |
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Editorial: Tracker mortgages
TRACKER MORTGAGES account for an estimated 50 per cent of home loans although they are no longer offered to borrowers because they have become increasingly unprofitable for lenders since the economic - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
23 Aug '10 |
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Irish mortgage lending falls 40%
Mortgage lending fell by 40 per cent in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest IBF/PwC Mortgage Market Profile published today. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
23 Aug '10 |
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Transparency urged on tracker rates
Banks should fully disclose to customers the impact of switching from a tracker mortgage, the Financial Regulator said today. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
14 Aug '10 |
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Broad welcome for new arrears proposals
"We would like to see that arrears would begin to be counted only after the first 30 days from the missed payment has elapsed," PIBA mortgage services director Rachel Doyle. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
12 Aug '10 |
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Regulator to change code on mortgage arrears
THE ONE-YEAR moratorium on house repossessions which the State’s banks agreed to last year will not be automatically rolled over under proposals to be unveiled by the Financial Regulator tomorrow. - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
12 Aug '10 |
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Fifth lender piles on pain with mortgage rate hike
A FIFTH lender, KBC Bank, announced a hike in mortgage rates for existing and new customers yesterday -- leaving just one more mortgage lender now expected to hit homeowners with a rate rise. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
11 Aug '10 |
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Feeling the burden of mortgage rate increases
Homeowners with variable mortgages are facing a fresh round of mortgage-rate hikes as banks seek to offset losses elsewhere. And with possible ECB rises, those on trackers aren't in a much better pos - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
04 Aug '10 |
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Three more lenders to follow BoI with rate hike
THREE more lenders are set to follow Bank of Ireland with hikes in mortgage rates, the Irish Independent has learnt. Bank of Ireland said yesterday it was to hit homeowners on standard variable rates - Subscribe |
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© The Property Week |
02 Aug '10 |
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Rent or To Buy? repoort
The ‘Rent or Buy?’ report was prepared by Dr. Peter Stafford (Independent economist recently taken on by the Society of Chartered Surveyors), Karl Deeter (of Irish Mortgage Brokers) and Frank Quinn (o - Subscribe |
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