Tesco won't be offering mortgages here
Tesco have ruled out the possibility of them entering the Irish mortgage market, despite offering home loans in the UK. A spokesperson for the retailer…
Month: August 2012
Mortgage arrears on the rise at Permanent TSB
The number of people in arrears on their mortgages with Permanent TSB has increased by almost 2% in the first half of 2012. The bank…
Burlington Hotel placed up for sale
The Irish Times reports today that Dublin's Burlington Hotel, bought by property developer Bernard McNamara at the peak of the property boom in 2007 for…
Garden design for transforming small spaces
A modest sized but very plain and simple looking rear garden in sub-urban Dublin was the starting point here. Apart from the lawn area there…
Property tax to be taken from people's wages
The forthcoming property tax will be taken from people’s wages, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has admitted. Taking the controversial payments at source from PAYE…
Further cut in ECB rates expected next week
A further cut in European Central Bank rates has been predicted for Thursday week in what would be a huge boost to tracker mortgage holders.…
Property tax based on house valuation to be in force by middle of next year
A PROPERTY tax based on house valuation is set to be in force by the middle of next year as part of the Troika bailout…
Eight out of 10 people refused mortgages, insists PIBA survey
A new survey has claimed that as many as eight out of 10 people looking for a mortgage are turned away by banks. The survey…
IPAV insist value-based property tax would be "crazy"
A leading auctioneers group have insisted that a value-based property tax would be “crazy”. Speculation grew at the weekend that the government would charge people…
Bank of Ireland increase mortgage rate by 0.5%
Thousands of homeowners are set to be hit with higher mortgage repayments each month after Bank of Ireland and its subsidiary ICS announced it was…