70,000 set to be affected as Permanent TSB increase standard variable rate
Thousands of homeowners who have mortgages with Permanent TSB are set to see their repayments rise from the end of next month after the bank…
Month: April 2014
Increase reported in number of people holiday at home in Ireland
More Irish people holidayed at home last year, resulting in half a million extra nights' accommodation being booked at hotels, B&Bs and guest houses. The…
Hotel owner praised for cancelling sale of family farm
The owner of a rural hotel has earned praise locally after he cancelled the auction of a family farm that was due to take place…
Permanent TSB reporting strong interest in its tracker portability mortgage product
Permanent TSB has reported strong interest from customers in its tracker portability mortgage product, which will go live from Monday next. The new product will…
Irish commercial property up 7% in the first quarter of 2014
Returns from the Irish commercial property market in the first quarter of this year were the strongest since 2006. Overall returns rose by 7.2 per…
Just 2% of mortgage-to-rent scheme application are approved
A scheme to allow people with unsustainable mortgages give up ownership of their homes and rent them instead has seen less than 2% of applications…
Investment opportunities at Galway auction
Galway-based estate agents O’Donnellan and Joyce will place 46 properties under the hammer in an all-day auction on Friday May 9th at the Harbour Hotel.…
€15m fund to renovate vacant houses
The Government has announced funding of €15m for a scheme to bring almost 1,000 vacant local authority housing units back into use. The initiative will…
Clever design and skilful landscaping transform a Rathfarnham garden
At the very outset of this project, the priorities were firmly established and several appeared much more obvious than others. For starters, the existing garden…
NAMA may be used to control rising property prices
The Minister for Finance said he has asked the National Asset Management Agency to see if it can use land it controls to temper rising property prices, particularly in…