Our Government is Operating with Faulty Information on Rents Karl Deeter: Ireland’s just had its knuckles rapped by the European Union for its use of rent control in pressure zones The European Union has been critical of Ireland’s use of rent control in rent pressure zones, a regulation that now covers more than half of […]
House prices have been rising and are showing no signs of coming under control, at least in terms of the price inflation rate emulating the general rate of inflation. We hear about demand-pull inflation all the time. It’s easy to understand: you have a relatively fixed supply (in this case housing) and as demand for […]
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
With less than 1 per cent of tenancies resulting in formal complaints, why are landlords seen as the ‘bad guys’? When it comes to landlords, the most common assumption is that if he/she is a small-time landlord, he/she will not do a good job of managing a property. The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) doesn’t provide […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
(this article is taken from Karl Deeter’s original article in the Sunday Business Post 4th September 2016) Property prices are on an upward spiral, and no one, including the government, can stop them An explanation is not an endorsement, so the cries of ‘unfair’ when I try to explain that there is a very high […]
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This article originally appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 7th of July 2015 It seems to be a fait accompli that the banks will drop mortgage rates because the Minister of Finance told them to do so. Thus far talk of any pitfalls are being avoided in the belief that subsidising a certain […]
Also filed in Accountancy, Banking, Economics, Fixed Rates, Mortgages, Property, Wealth
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Tagged fixed mortgages, irish loan rates, irish mortgages, michael noonan, mortgage rates, standard variable rates
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Monday, September 8, 2014
There is a lot of talk that we have a ‘property bubble forming’, with virtually no supply, a growing population and a trend towards smaller households as things like separation and divorce become more common, it simply lacks ‘bubble’ qualifications. But it does have ‘boom’ written all over it, we have had many such booms […]
This originally appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 6th of July 2014 Most of the “move your tracker” options are window dressing when you look at the potential impact on the credit market. Banks are allowing a person to ‘move their tracker’, which shows that you can shift it around, but they wouldn’t […]
Thursday, January 16, 2014
We were asked to do a review of the newspapers on RTE’s Morning Edition with Keelin Shanley.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
We were asked to do the newspaper review on RTE’s Morning Edition
