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 […]
Also filed in Advisors.ie In the Press, Capital Gains Tax, Debt, Income Tax, Investment, Property, Property tax, Sunday Business Post, Wealth
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Tagged irish property prices, property prices ireland, rising house prices#
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This article originally appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 24th of January. Jacking up rents quickly is a process that can’t occur now since new legislation was pushed through last December. But the question is: who jacks up rents and why? Empirically, the market is full of amateur landlords, but are they the […]
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, Advisors.ie In the Press, Banking, Economics, Fixed Rates, 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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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 […]
This article first appeared in the Sun on Sunday on the 28th of July 2013 As it is the month of Ramadan I thought it would be worth talking about Islam, and to make it relevant the way that Islamic Finance or ‘Sharia compliant finance’ works. It may seem strange at first (and this may […]
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Tagged christians history of money, haram, history of banking, Islamic finance, jews and banking, muslims and interest, pbuh, riba, sharia compliant finance
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This week we looked at using debt settlement arrangements to solve over indebtedness with mortgages instead of personal insolvency and how best to do it.
We were asked to contribute as part of an independent panel at the Fianna Fail ard fheis, we were one of three independent experts offering opinion on the topic.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
This week ‘The Insider’ looked at the pro’s and cons of ‘handing back the keys’.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
On this segment we discussed the ‘working poor’ and how it occurs due to taxation, wage cuts, debt and rising costs.
