Oct

7

- Rate of decrease in asking prices accelerates in Q3 when compared to Q2 2009- Asking Prices in Dublin fall back to late 2004 levels, declining 5.73% in Q3
Summary of Asking Price Changes Q3 2009
*        National -4.27%*        Dublin -5.73%Ex.*        Dublin -3.4%*        New Homes -3.56%*        Second Hand – 4.39%*        Dublin Asking prices now down 27.7% since […]

Jul

7

After 7 rate drops (adding up to 3.25%) in less than a year, it had been widely predicted that ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet would announce that rates would remain unchanged this month.
The latest indictations are that the ECB will probably leave rates as they are for the immediate future.
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Over recent weeks, […]

Feb

24

Joint selling agents PV Byrne and Kelly Walsh will be taking bookings onsite this weekend at the Meadowvale scheme in Arklow, Co Wicklow, where prices have been reduced by at least €100,000 on each unit.
Eighteen houses have been released for sale in this phase, and reservations have been taken on about 50 per cent of […]

Feb

11

AIB announced yesterday that they are introducing a one year fixed rate of 2.49%. The new rate is just 0.49pc above the European Central Bank rate of 2pc. Buyers will be able to borrow up to 92pc of the value of the home.
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Jan

10

According to the ESRI, which is now firmly in the bear’s camp, prices are likely to end 2009 at the same level as the last half of 2003. This means anyone who bought from 2004 on is very likely to have a home worth less than they paid for it.
With the economy set to decline […]

Jan

8

You must now get a BER cert to sell or rent a home. But how do you find one of the people qualified to do the  job - and how much  will they charge? asks Anne Dempsey .
AS WELL as “brrrr….” these cold winter days, people have become aware of BER — the Building Energy […]

Jan

8

There will be a drop in the supply of houses new to the market in 2009, but sellers are still having to cut prices - again
THE DUBLIN property market has opened with price cuts at all levels of the market, as sellers digest news of the country’s deteriorating finances and economists’ gloomy forecasts.
Estate agents are […]

Jan

6

Subprime lenders charge up to 2pc more than mainstream banks and building societies.
Leading subprime lender Start conducted a survey of its customers and found that half of those who took out subprime loans with it in 2005 have now moved to mainstream lenders like AIB and Ulster Bank.
A further 42pc of those who took out […]

Dec

16

THE number of people falling into arrears on their mortgage payments has jumped by almost a quarter as the downturn deepens. Almost 14,000 people are now struggling to meet their monthly repayments on homeloans, figures released by the Financial Regulator yesterday show. The majority of people with a mortgage arrears problem — defined as someone […]

Dec

10

GE Money has announced plans to stop offering residential mortgages in Ireland in a move that will see 80 workers laid off. The company says its remaining business in Ireland will also be significantly reduced. It says it will try to redeploy as many affected employees as possible to other areas of its business. […]


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