# mortgages - Thursday 17 May, 2018
# Bubble Bubble
# Bubble Bubble
Incomes are not rising to match lending.
# mortgages - Thursday 10 May, 2018
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
Around 3,600 of the mortgages are private dwellings that have fallen in arrears.
# Us Mortgage Crisis
# Us Mortgage Crisis
The bank has been fined by the US Justice Department over its role in the subprime mortgage crisis.
# mortgages - Monday 9 April, 2018
# The Banks
# The Banks
We take a dive into the figures available for the cases brought against homeowners in the courts over the past few years.
# mortgages - Wednesday 4 April, 2018
# Buy To Rent
# Buy To Rent
Fianna Fáil has called for the products to be looked at.
# mortgages - Monday 26 March, 2018
# Property Ladder
# Property Ladder
The highest increases in prices to date in 2018 have occurred in towns.
# mortgages - Thursday 22 March, 2018
# Vultures
# Vultures
Executives blamed the European regulator for the classification of these loans as non-performing.
# mortgages - Saturday 24 February, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
The bank recently announced it is to sell off a €3.7 billion portfolio of non-performing loans, including mortgages 14,000 private dwelling homes.
# Vultures
# Vultures
With tens of thousands of mortgage holders potentially facing vulture funds, we spoke to some people who’ve been through it already.
# mortgages - Friday 23 February, 2018
# Vulture Fears
# Vulture Fears
Ulster Bank said today that it would be looking to offload around 7,000 mortgages on top of PTSB’s proposed 18,000.
# mortgages - Thursday 22 February, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty said the bank has been asked to appear before the Oireachtas Finance Committee next week.
# mortgages - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
PTSB, which is 75% State owned, has been defending its plan to sell off a book of non-performing loans.
# Mortgage Arrears
# Mortgage Arrears
Master Honohan asked if it’s a “sick joke” that people writing to the Taoiseach were told to seek help from Abhaile.
# mortgages - Monday 19 February, 2018
# Fire Sale
# Fire Sale
The bank, which is 75% owned by the State, plans to sell off a loan book worth €4 billion.
# mortgages - Monday 12 February, 2018
# Pentire
# Pentire
Pentire Property Finance is a subsidiary of US investment giant CarVal.
# mortgages - Friday 9 February, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
A new report from the Central Bank has said that people began to do this in their droves in 2011.
# Moral Hazard
# Moral Hazard
The Dunne Judgement from July 2011 stated that banks could no longer foreclose until new legislation was brought in on the issue.
# mortgages - Tuesday 23 January, 2018
# Compensation
# Compensation
About 10,000 account holders were impacted by the scandal.
# Mortgages
# Mortgages
It will allow buyers to get mortgages for homes up to €320,000 in Dublin.
# mortgages - Tuesday 16 January, 2018
# Tracker Scandal
# Tracker Scandal
Paschal Donohoe was speaking to the Finance Committee today about the tracker mortgage scandal.
# mortgages - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
# Property
# Property
The Central Bank’s mortgage rules are pivotal to the story of residential property in 2017, writes economist Ronan Lyons.
# mortgages - Sunday 24 December, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
More than 30,000 accounts have been in arrears for more than two years.
# mortgages - Thursday 14 December, 2017
# Gaffs
# Gaffs
The number of mortgages behind on payments has dropped since the depths of the recession.
# mortgages - Thursday 16 November, 2017
# Compensation
# Compensation
KBC estimates up to 1,661 of its customers may have been impacted.
# mortgages - Wednesday 25 October, 2017
# Mortgage Distress
# Mortgage Distress
The head of the insolvency service said banks are challenging proposals “on as many fronts as possible”.
# mortgages - Wednesday 27 September, 2017
# Mortgage To Rent
# Mortgage To Rent
Under the scheme, a mortgage holder will surrender their property and rent it back.
# mortgages - Friday 22 September, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
A new poll suggests that nearly half of Irish people expect to still be paying off a property loan when they reach retirement age.
# mortgages - Friday 15 September, 2017
# Competitive
# Competitive
The bank said that it was cutting its standard variable rate (SVR) by 0.25%.
# mortgages - Saturday 19 August, 2017
# Home Repossession
# Home Repossession
We lost our home but our story is not unique and we are far from alone, writes Carly Bailey.
# mortgages - Sunday 16 July, 2017
# Mortgages
# Mortgages
Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibin raised a number of examples that he said fall outside the remit of processes the government put in place to protect people.
# mortgages - Thursday 8 June, 2017
# Abhaile
# Abhaile
Figures released to TheJournal.ie demonstrate the “massive” scale of the mortgage arrears problem, according to one expert.
# mortgages - Thursday 25 May, 2017
# Start Saving
# Start Saving
According to the Central Bank, the average first time buyer received a mortgage of €185,939 last year.
# mortgages - Tuesday 11 April, 2017
# Central Bank
# Central Bank
Research shows that many consumers who have switched mortgages had a positive experience, and can save “significant sums of money”.
# mortgages - Thursday 6 April, 2017
# Opinion
# Opinion
The numbers don’t stack up on claims that the scheme is a primary influence on an entire market, writes Karl Deeter.
# mortgages - Monday 23 January, 2017
# Approved
# Approved
A representative group also wants lending rules relaxed,
# mortgages - Monday 9 January, 2017
# Great Irish Sell Off
# Great Irish Sell Off
Housing has become the biggest issue for hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland.
# mortgages - Thursday 5 January, 2017
# Property Ladder
# Property Ladder
The Help-To-Buy scheme opened for applications on Tuesday.
# mortgages - Saturday 31 December, 2016
# Preview 2017
# Preview 2017
Economist Ronan Lyons gives us his take on what to expect.
# mortgages - Tuesday 20 December, 2016
# Mortgages
# Mortgages
Philip Lane was being questioned over how many people have been overcharged on their mortgages.
# mortgages - Saturday 17 December, 2016
# Michael McGrath
# Michael McGrath
Reports suggest the final bill for the banks and other lenders could run to over €1 billion.
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