# vulture-funds - Thursday 2 September, 2021
# Ireland's Housing Crisis
# Ireland's Housing Crisis
Eoin Hayes returned to Ireland after years abroad, set up his own business and now rents. He says he cannot get near the property ladder.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 15 June, 2021
# Emergency Legislation
# Emergency Legislation
Judge Edmund Honohon questioned why a sunset clause was not set out in the emergency legislation.
# vulture-funds - Saturday 22 May, 2021
# Birdbrained
# Birdbrained
Don’t get in a flap about this.
# vulture-funds - Wednesday 19 May, 2021
# Housing
# Housing
The opposition, however, doesn’t agree and the plans have been described as a “too little, too late”.
# vulture-funds - Friday 14 May, 2021
# Housing Ireland
# Housing Ireland
Dr Lorcan Sirr and Orla Hegarty say that to understand the current housing crisis, you must first learn of the history of housing provision in Ireland.
# vulture-funds - Thursday 26 November, 2020
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
The Tánaiste said if people borrow money, they have a responsibility to pay it back.
# vulture-funds - Thursday 19 March, 2020
# Central Bank
# Central Bank
The Central Bank said this evening that there was no impediment to providing the three-month payment breaks.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 2 July, 2019
# Mortgage Sale
# Mortgage Sale
90% of the loans due to be sold are family homes – about 3,200 accounts.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 21 May, 2019
# Cabot Financial
# Cabot Financial
Taoiseach has said it is now time for to review the tax treatment of vulture funds.
# vulture-funds - Friday 19 April, 2019
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
In an interview with TheJournal.ie this week, the Taoiseach said he understood the intent behind Sinn Féin’s No Consent No Sale Bill.
# vulture-funds - Saturday 13 April, 2019
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
The Central Bank is aware that a regulated entity has written to a number of buy-to-let borrowers in arrears.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 9 April, 2019
# Housing
# Housing
Corporate investors known as so-called ‘cuckoo funds’ have spent over €1.1 billion on nearly 3,000 residential properties in Ireland last year
# vulture-funds - Wednesday 3 April, 2019
# Banks
# Banks
The minister said the Sinn Fein Bill to give mortgage holders the power to block the sale of their loans to vulture funds is unconstitutional.
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
Officials were quizzed about their assertions the Bill is unconstitutional and would result in higher mortgage interest rates.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 2 April, 2019
# Homeowners' Rights
# Homeowners' Rights
Sinn Féin’s No Consent, No Sale Bill aims to puts the code on a statutory footing.
# vulture-funds - Wednesday 27 March, 2019
# Housing
# Housing
The report states that “landlords have become faceless corporations wreaking havoc with tenants”.
# vulture-funds - Saturday 23 March, 2019
# Tax Loophole
# Tax Loophole
Edmund Honohan has said there are many similarities to be drawn with the Apple case being taken.
# vulture-funds - Sunday 3 March, 2019
Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness told the Taoiseach that people are crying out for help.
# vulture-funds - Thursday 31 January, 2019
# Great Irish Sell Off
# Great Irish Sell Off
The Bill puts into law what already exists at the moment as a voluntary Central Bank code
# vulture-funds - Thursday 24 January, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
A proposed new EU Directive aims to develop a secondary market for non-performing loans and poses a serious threat to the rights of borrowers and consumers, writes Matt Carthy.
# vulture-funds - Friday 11 January, 2019
# Fair Mortgage Bill
# Fair Mortgage Bill
Edmund Honohan urged the Fianna Fáil leader to support a piece of legislation he wrote that is currently before the Dáil.
# vulture-funds - Thursday 20 December, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
Unregulated loan owners hold 17% of all mortgages in arrears over 720 days.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
# Mortgage Sell-off
# Mortgage Sell-off
Last week, PTSB bank bosses confirmed that the ‘special purpose vehicle’ which more than 6,000 of its mortgages have been transferred to will be exempt from tax.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 13 November, 2018
# Mortgage Arrears
# Mortgage Arrears
Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said there will be no change to the code of conduct, as it is working effectively.
# vulture-funds - Friday 7 September, 2018
# Mortgage Crisis
# Mortgage Crisis
Tens of thousands of people are still feeling the effects of the mortgage crisis ten years later.
# vulture-funds - Thursday 6 September, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
Last month, PTSB sold its controversial Project Glas loan portfolio to an affiliate of the so-called vulture fund Lone Star for around €1.3 billion.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty said a full committee session should be dedicated to the loan book sale.
# vulture-funds - Saturday 18 August, 2018
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
‘Mary’ has been out of work since her cancer diagnosis. She had no idea her mortgage was to be sold to a vulture fund.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
# Where's Paschal?
# Where's Paschal?
Questions have been mounting as to where Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is in the midst of this summer’s vulture fund sell off.
# vulture-funds - Monday 6 August, 2018
# Interview
# Interview
In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Shane Ross also says the government needs to have more of a say in State-owned banks.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 31 July, 2018
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
A total of 7,400 are owner-occupier mortgages, while 3,300 are buy-to-let properties.
# vulture-funds - Thursday 10 May, 2018
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
Around 3,600 of the mortgages are private dwellings that have fallen in arrears.
# vulture-funds - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
# People Power
# People Power
The IFA has been contacted by around 200 farmers impacted by the issue so far this year.
# vulture-funds - Thursday 15 March, 2018
Councillors have said the direction from the Department of Housing is an attempt to undermine local democracy.
# vulture-funds - Monday 12 March, 2018
# Receivers
# Receivers
Housing charity Threshold says numerous renters had contacted it over problems with vulture funds and receivers.
# vulture-funds - Friday 9 March, 2018
# Permanent TSB
# Permanent TSB
The protesters accuse the bank of putting the lives of people in almost 20,000 households in jeopardy.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
# Rents And Mortgages
# Rents And Mortgages
The utilisation of State land for affordable rental properties and the regulation of vulture funds is to be debated in the Dáil.
# vulture-funds - Tuesday 27 February, 2018
# Mortgage Arrears
# Mortgage Arrears
The Central Bank is to review their code of conduct for how financial institutions deal with those in mortgage arrears.
# vulture-funds - 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.
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