By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Also posted in General, Mortgages & Money, Property News, The First Time Buyer, The Seller
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Tagged Director of Public Affairs, Felix O'Regan, First Time Buyers, IBF, Irish Banking Federation, Irish Banking Federation/PwC Mortgage market profile, mortgages, mover-purchasers
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Mortgages to the value of €331m were issued during the first quarter of this year, new figures show. This compares to €999m worth of mortgages issued in the last quarter of 2012 and €450m worth in the first quarter of last year. The Irish Banking Federation/PwC Mortgage market profile shows that 2,068 new mortgages were [...]
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This year could be a bumper one for applications for tax refunds as people look to claw back money from the taxman in the wake of the household charge and the local property tax (LPT), according to Taxback.com. In the first quarter of this year, tax refund inquiries are up approximately 10pc on the same [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Also posted in General, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Tagged appeals, approved, banks, Central Bank, Cork South-West, Labour, Michael McCarthy, Michael Noonan, Minister for Finance, Mortgage, mortgage appeals, Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process, refused
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Labour TD for Cork South-West, Michael McCarthy, has said there is a need to publicise the number of mortgage appeals that are being approved or refused by State-owned banks. Mr McCarthy said: “People have a right to know if State-owned banks are turning over a healthy number of appeals or if they are refusing them. [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Also posted in General, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, The Seller
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Tagged AIB, Bank of Ireland, banks, Danske Bank, EBS, ECB, European Central Bank, fixed rate, homeowners, KBC Bank, Mortgage, mortgages, Permanent TSB, property market, tracker mortgage, Ulster Bank, variable rate
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Homeowners will now be able to move house without having to give up their low interest tracker mortgages. Trackers are linked to the rate set by the European Central Bank, which currently has an historically low rate of 0.5%. With 375,000 homeowners currently on tracker mortgages, many are reluctant to move for fear of losing [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Also posted in Commercial, General, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, Property Picks, The Seller
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Tagged 46 Wellington Road, advertising agency, Auction, D4, DNG, Dublin, Dublin 4, Leo Burnett, Wellington Road
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A house in Dublin 4 has sold for €500,000 above its €1.6m guide price. 46 Wellington Road sold yesterday for €2.1m – making it the highest price paid for a home at auction this year. The Ballsbridge house was bought yesterday by a family which plans to restore it to a family home. Both the [...]
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Over 845,000 Local Property Tax (LPT) returns have been filed to date, according to new data released by the Revenue Commissioners. Their latest information shows that as of yesterday 845,427 homeowners had filed returns. That is roughly half of the estimated 1.6 million homes liable for the property tax. The number paying the tax has [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Also posted in Commercial, General, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, Property Picks, The Investor
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Tagged DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, Eyre Square, Galway, Kieran Wallace, KPMG, Odeon
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The Irish Times reports that a consortium headed by the wealthy Galway developers Brian and Luke Comer has bought a substantial redevelopment site fronting on to Eyre Square in Galway for slightly over €13 million. Aidan Gavin of DTZ Sherry FitzGerald handled the sale of almost two acres known as the Odeon site for receivers Kieran Wallace and Patrick Horkan of KPMG. The [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Also posted in Commercial, General, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, Property Picks, The First Time Buyer, The Investor, The Overseas Investor, The Seller
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Tagged Colm O’Donnellan, County Galway, Galway, Galway City, Longford, Mayo, O’Donnellan & Joyce, Roscommon
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O’Donnellan & Joyce will hold the biggest property auction ever held in the west of Ireland when 32 properties go under the auction hammer tomorrow. According to Colm O’Donnellan of O’Donnellan & Joyce there has been tremendous interest both locally, nationally, and internationally in relation to this forthcoming auction, as there is such a [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Also posted in Commercial, General, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, Property Picks, The Investor, The Seller
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Tagged Allsop Space, Auction, Brittas Bay, Dublin 7, McDaniels Pub, Millbrook, North Circular Road, reserve, Riverside Suites Hotel, Shelbourne Hotel, Sligo, Wicklow
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Just over €12.1m was raised at today’s Allsop Space auction in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin. A total of 125 lots were registered for the second auction of the year with 96 selling on the day for a sum total of €12,105,500. Two further lots sold prior to auction. The biggest sale of the day [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Also posted in Commercial, General, Mortgages & Money, Property News, Property Picks, The Investor, The Overseas Investor
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Tagged Castle Hume Leisure, Fermanagh, G8, G8 summit, Lough Erne Resort
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The venue for the G8 world leaders summit next month, the five-star Lough Erne Resort in Fermanagh, is back on the market with a price tag of £10 million. The resort had initially been put up for sale last year on the instructions of the joint administrators appointed to parent company Castle Hume Leisure in May 2011. However, last [...]
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Revenue has developed an interactive online property tax valuation guide, available here . The gu...
The SCS, the largest construction and property industry body in the country, publishes the guide ...
