Standard and Poor on the Irish property market? Irrelevant

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our email newsletter or our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Standard and Poors is a credit rating agency – they were in the news recently as they said that the Irish housing market had reached the bottom: THE REPUBLIC’S house-price fall has levelled off...

Would you like to save energy around the house?

If you would like to figure out how to save money on your energy bill, the ESB have a useful online tool: http://www.esbenergywizard.ie/ The ESB carried out 20,000 Home Energy surveys, and using what they learned about houses in Ireland and how people live today to design the wizard. It gathers...

Dealing with a mortgage in arrears

The latest figures from the Central Bank of Ireland (28 February 2011) show a 5.7% of Mortgage Accounts in Arrears for more than 90 days. If you are one of the unfortunates with this problem – the PDFs below will provide some information and advice on dealing with your problem mortgage. Mortgage...

Make money by renting your stuff

Do you have an unused set of golf clubs, a bouncy castle or a trailer? Did you ever consider that it might actually be useful to someone else and a source of revenue for you? The phenomenon of  ‘peer-to-peer renting’ is relatively new and has taken off with some new online services making it...

Ghost Estates of the Irish Property Bubble

20,000 completed empty houses and nearly 20,000 unfinished houses. The map say it all: Link: http://ghostestates.com/main.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap Google...

Questions to ask before you get a mortgage in the recession

Thinking of buying a house? Things have changed out there (!) and getting a mortgage could be a little more difficult than a few years ago. But the Sunday Business Post has some good advice… Before you take the plunge and buy a property, it is vital you take all mortgage options into...