Civil servants in the Department of Finance are frequently surfing the web to check property prices, according to new figures which show that MyHome.ie is the most popular non-news website amongst staff. A list of the top 50 websites visited by computers in Government Buildings, where the country’s economy is managed by both the Department [...]
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22nd May 2013
Positive start to the year for sales in Meath
The number of property transactions in Meath last year rose by over 23% compared to 2011 according to new analysis by MyHome.ie. There were 795 house sales in the county in 2012, up from the 610 transactions in 2011. However the Meath property market has bucked the trend somewhat in that last year’s level of [...]
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13th May 2013
57% of property owners unhappy with Property Tax assessment
A new survey has found that 57% of property owners are unhappy with the assessment they have received from Revenue for the new local property tax. In addition forty two per cent of respondents said they intend to go with a figure lower than the valuation band advised by Revenue. The deadline for payment of [...]
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10th May 2013
Rumours of property tax increase will be worrying for many
Around one million people have still to pay the new local property tax and already rumours are spreading that the charge could be set to rise next year. Figures released yesterday by the Revenue Commissioners show that to date 637,466 homeowners have made an LPT return. The remainder of the 1.6 million homeowners liable for [...]
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3rd May 2013
Tracker mortgages are now so valuable they may be affecting the market
Yesterday’s ECB rate cut will be a welcome boost for the 400,000 or so homeowners who will see their mortgage repayments fall by 0.25%. However, the latest intervention by the European Central Bank to try and drive economic growth has only driven a bigger wedge between those who have trackers and those who have not. [...]
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26th April 2013
Could the property tax leave us in a Big Brother world?
The new property tax is almost upon us and no matter what your feeling on the subject is, it certainly looks like there is no way to avoid it. Whether you meet next month’s deadline to return your assessment to the Revenue Commissioners or not, they insist they will start deducting the payments from anyone [...]
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12th April 2013
Is the mortgage crisis worse than we thought?
MABS (the Money Advice and Budgeting Service) a publicly funded group who are given €18,500,000 a year to help the indebted, have produced research which indicates that when it comes to people with mortgage difficulty that the people affected are mainly those with children and are aged from 41 to 65. They also found that [...]
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5th April 2013
Is your property tax estimate accurate?
By now most people will have received letters from the Revenue Commissioners detailing what they are expected to pay towards the new property tax. Of course, these letters are just estimates and people have the right to lower or higher the valuation of their home to meet its current market value. This has caused a [...]
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22nd March 2013
How are Irish property investors faring?
There are plenty of headlines about arrears, about buy to let investors who will now be chased down as part of the new Central Bank ‘targeting’ scheme and about people in various stages of financial difficulty, but what do we really know about the people behind the numbers? Today is your chance to help change [...]
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15th March 2013
Confusion over property tax valuations
The big talk on everyone’s lips at present is in relation to the new property tax. Letters for the new tax started being sent out by the Revenue Commissioners at the start of this week with the estimated 1.6m householders liable for the new charge expected to receive one inside the next three weeks. The [...]
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no way has it bottomed out as the next budget will crucify us even further. Overspending in heal...
