Potential purchasers struggling to get deposits together
A working couple in their early 30s, Aoife and her husband James should be ideal mortgage customers for Irish banks keen to lend into Europe's…
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Irish housing market starved of supply, IBF finds
Ireland has an illiquid housing market starved of supply though there are some encouraging new figures showing the germ of a real recovery, according to…
Mortgage lending on the rise but a lack of stock is holding back sales
One of the biggest complaints about the property market in recent years has been the availability of mortgage finance from our lenders. After the over-zealous…
ECB leave interest rates unchanged
The European Central Bank has left its interest rate unchanged today, as had been expected. In July the ECB said it would keep rates at…
Are new homes needed in the capital?
There are many reasons why house sales are not at a level which they were in the past. Many of these are financial but a…
Abbey seeing signs of improvement in property market
Housebuilder Abbey has reported pre-tax profits of €10.9m for the year to the end of April, down from profits of €12.1m the previous year.…
Bottom of housing market not yet reached, insist Davy's
The collapse in the Irish property market is not over with prices expected to fall by up to 70% from the house price bubble peak…