# Mortgage
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March 2024
Cost of Living
Increase in early mortgage arrears 'driven primarily by non-banks' and a ‘cause for concern’
26 Mar
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This year
2024
Voices
Financial analyst: House affordability should be the government's focus, not just house prices
Mark Coan
2 Feb
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Last year
2023
High Court
Couple sue Pepper Finance over 'excessive' interest rate on mortgage sold on by bank
7 Nov 2023
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THE MORNING LEAD
'I am broken mentally, physically and financially': What readers want to see in Budget 2024
8 Oct 2023
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Voices
Analysis: 'A number of variable mortgage holders are now looking vulnerable to rate hikes'
Mark Coan
29 May 2023
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Insurance
Insurers to offer cancer survivors the right to be forgotten under revised industry code
Updated
3 Apr 2023
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BOI
Bank of Ireland increases on fixed mortgage rates to take effect from today
31 Mar 2023
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Finance committee
Homeowners with €6,000 owed on mortgage given repossession orders, committee told
8 Mar 2023
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Voices
Opinion: 'Telling my child she'd missed a school place broke my heart'
Margaret Lynch
Updated
16 Jan 2023
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All time
first time buyers
Central Bank gives green light to shared equity scheme but warns it could increase house prices
Updated
25 Nov 2021
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Mortgages
Significant decline in buy-to-lets as Covid-19 continues to impact housing market
9 Mar 2021
14.0k
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property ladder
Over 5,200 mortgages approved in October, with surge driven by first-time buyers
1 Dec 2020
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property ladder
'A lot of people are stuck in a rip-off rental trap': New minister promises affordable housing scheme
30 Jun 2020
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covid19
Call for banks to reverse 'de-facto ban' on mortgage approval for wage subsidy recipients
30 Jun 2020
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covid19
Almost 4,000 mortgage accounts fell into arrears in Q1 of this year, figures from the Central Bank show
23 Jun 2020
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payment deferral
Internal bank documents reveal AIB mortgage break did require savings before meeting with minister
27 Mar 2020
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personal insolvency
High Court approves debt write down of millions of euro for two Tipperary women
11 Mar 2020
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property ladder
First-time buyers made up most of the 12,000 mortgages drawn down in last quarter of 2019
29 Jan 2020
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Courts
Man who used fake documents to apply for €270k mortgage given a suspended sentence
5 Dec 2019
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crackdown
New Central Bank rules to stop brokers accepting free golf trips and sports tickets from banks
25 Sep 2019
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Will the help-to-buy scheme be extended or scrapped? Minister won't rule it in or out until Budget 2020
16 Jul 2019
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homeoptions
'It's a no-brainer': New not-for-profit company aims to keep distressed borrowers in their homes
9 Jul 2019
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rebuilding ireland
Families still 'in limbo' despite Minister's assurance home loan scheme funding 'will be honoured'
21 Jun 2019
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Vulture funds
Taoiseach says he didn’t realise his mortgage could be sold on by his bank when he took it out in 2003
19 Apr 2019
116k
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Financial Services Ombudsman
Couple received €40,000 after insurer tried to reject storm damage claim
28 Mar 2019
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Department of Finance
Mortgage interest rates will rise, says research, 'making repayment difficult' for some Irish households
12 Mar 2019
43.5k
54
Tracker Mortgage
Banks pay out €647 million to victims of tracker mortgage scandal
4 Feb 2019
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34
Voices
Opinion: Sound the alarm - a proposed EU directive on bad loans will give vulture funds a free rein
Matt Carthy
24 Jan 2019
18.9k
60
Security
Union says KBC staff 'extremely upset and stressed' by recent incidents
23 Dec 2018
25.8k
91
Central Bank
Warning people will be stuck in rental market as regulator leaves mortgage rules unchanged
28 Nov 2018
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Voices
How I Spend My Money: A sales worker on €70,000 saving €1,000 a month for a mortgage
TheJournal.ie reader
18 Nov 2018
85.6k
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FACTCHECK
FactCheck: Has the number of cases taken by banks over arrears halved in two years?
17 Nov 2018
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