Mortgages

What have you done with your ECB interest rate windfall of up to €8000 in two years?

At the end of February last, the ECB announced that they were leaving interest rates at their historical low of 1%. I [...]

FLAC provides an advice leaflet on mortgage arrears

FLAC, the Free Legal Advice Centres, has provided an advice and information leaflet for those who may be facing difficulties with their [...]

Deceptive spam – the Irish 419 scam?

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve started to get  a huge amount of spam e-mail that when I first saw it, [...]

Mortgage companies, Insurance companies and re-build costs – what’s going on?

You’ll have read three posts already today (here, here and here) about how insurance companies and mortgage providers are trying to force [...]

Another mortgage company looking to overstate re-build costs for insurance

Here’s a comment posted recently by a ValueIreland.com reader which is linked to todays topic – rebuild costs for the purposes of [...]

Rebuild costs – mortgage company overstating rebuild costs

Following on from this mornings post about home insurance premiums and re-build costs, here’s one e-mail that I received from a ValueIreland.com [...]

More on home insurance re-building costs

I’ve written in the past about the re-building costs of houses in 2009 and the impact that it should have on home [...]

Should I fix my mortgage rate now?

ECB interest rates have dropped to a historic low of 1% as of this week. Anyone on a tracker or variable rate [...]

Mortgage rate drops again – where’s your extra cash?

This week saw the ECB rate drop again. Falling by 0.25%, it’s now at its lowest level ever at 1% only. If [...]

Mortgage interest relief removed after 7 years

Talking to my dad over the weekend gone by, we were discussing the impact of the most recent budget on ourselves personally. [...]