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• The real problem is ministers don’t actually believe there is a housing crisis

  10th May 2021

  If the Government can’t come up with a radical housing solution, the Coalition parties will find themselves redundant. It is telling that what lit a […]

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• Financial advice from a bank is never ‘free’

  4th May 2021

  Banks are targeting disgruntled savers with investment products but they can be an expensive choice. With deposit rates on the floor, and markets continuing to […]

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• Calls for cashback mortgages probe before State uses money to back Ulster Bank loans sale

  28th April 2021

  The Government has placed its State-owned Permanent TSB as well as AIB, which owns the EBS mortgage lender, in the lead positions to buy large […]

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• Irish banking sinks deeper into crisis as KBC follows Ulster out the door

  19th April 2021

  Commentators sound alarm bells as the ‘two big boys’ look set to control 70% of the Irish mortgage market The shock decision by KBC Bank, […]

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• The plan to tackle Ireland’s housing crisis has failed

  6th April 2021

  At a webinar on housing last month, chief executive of Cairn Homes Michael Stanley produced what he described as a “mind-blowing statistic”. It related to […]

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• Davy and tracker scandal reveal toxic culture at heart of Irish financial system

  31st March 2021

  Whatever you might think about the property market, the construction industry behind it has been transformed by the crash. Developers, builders and others are now […]

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