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Majority of voters want to see review of Central Bank lending rules

A Newstalk/Red C poll released today has found that a majority of Irish voters want to see a review of Central Bank rules. 77% of Irish voters either slightly or strongly agree that “Mortgage regulations should be reviewed to make it easier for buyers to…

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Should landlords be offered tax breaks to accept rent allowance tenants?

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Landlords should be offered tax breaks to encourage them to accept rent allowance tenants. That’s the view of property expert Karl Deeter, who said State intervention may be required to help people secure homes. Due to the demand in the rental market at present it…

Irish Mortgage Brokers launch new service BankruptcyAdvice.ie

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Irish Mortgage Brokers have launched a new bankruptcy offering, BankruptcyAdvice.ie, to compliment the existing personal insolvency solutions that they offer. The Pearse Street-based firm have teamed up with one of Ireland’s most experienced solicitors, Anthony Joyce Solicitors, in the joint venture. BankruptcyAdvice.ie is a service…

Rent does not cover mortgage for almost half of all landlords

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Almost half of landlords of houses and apartments do not receive enough rent to cover the interest on their mortgages. The finding is as a result of an academic study of survey of 493 buy-to-let investors. It found 49% of respondents do not receive…

Insolvency practitioners must charge 23% VAT rate

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The Insolvency Service of Ireland has confirmed that a VAT rate of 23% will be applied to the fees paid to insolvency practitioners. The service, which will regulate the work of Personal Insolvency Practitioners (PIPS), was established in March. The Independent Mortgage Advisers Federation…

Is the mortgage crisis worse than we thought?

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MABS (the Money Advice and Budgeting Service) a publicly funded group who are given €18,500,000 a year to help the indebted, have produced research which indicates that when it comes to people with mortgage difficulty that the people affected are mainly those with children and…

How are Irish property investors faring?

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There are plenty of headlines about arrears, about buy to let investors who will now be chased down as part of the new Central Bank 'targeting' scheme and about people in various stages of financial difficulty, but what do we really know about the people…

More than a third of those in mortgage arrears may be strategically withholding payments

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A leading academic has claimed that more than a third of mortgage holders who are in arrears may be deliberately not paying even though they can afford to do so. Professor of Finance at NUI Maynooth, Gregory Connor, said that 35% or close to 40,000…

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Good riddance to unwanted rubbish…

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Article by Karl Deeter, Irish Mortgage Brokers Somebody has been filling my bins with their rubbish. This happens regularly in Dublin and I'm told that it isn't uncommon in Galway and Cork as well. Different places have different ways that other people can take…

New taxes could damage both the market and a whole host of those simply struggling to survive

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Most people would be in agreement that a healthy economy requires a healthy property market. After all, one of the major things that fuelled the Celtic Tiger was the housing and construction boom. Obviously we don’t want to get back to a stage where there…