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Our NEWS section is the most comprehensive publication on the business of property in Ireland, keeping our trade readers fully informed on all developments in the property business and among their competitors.

It gathers together in one place all reports on the market, and goes into much greater detail than does the consumer press on trade issues of interest to estate agents, developers and other property professionals. It summarises property stories from the media, and provides handy links to the full stories. Occasional indepth features and opinion pieces for a fully developed online property magazine. It also acts as a searchable archive of all property matters down the years.

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© Irish Independent 10 Feb '25

New mortgage start-up, Núa, puts pressure on traditional lenders with interest rate cut

Núa Money, which started mortgage lending here only last year, is dropping its rates by up to 0.75 percentage points. Núa is a mortgages start-up backed by the Allen beef barons of Wexford. -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 10 Jan '25

First-time buyer mortgage approvals hit record levels in November

First-time buyer mortgage approvals hit a record last November, new figures from Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) showed, with the average value approved rising more than 8 per cent. -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 12 Dec '24

ESRI again highlights regulator’s role in fanning house prices

Kieran McQuinn, a former Central Bank economist, has been warning that average loan-to-income ratios – a key measure of a borrower’s ability to repay the loan – have been rising. He has describe -  Subscribe
© Irish Independent 05 Dec '24

First-time buyers get record number of mortgage approvals – despite property prices rising 10pc a year

Lenders have granted the highest level of approvals for first-time buyers since the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) started recording the approvals in 2011. The financial institution -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 18 Oct '24

ECB’s latest rate reduction will help borrowers but egg on house prices

John McCartney of BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland said the latest move will “add somewhat to the heat as it may encourage those who are not maxed-out on their loan-to-value and loan-to-income limits -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 17 Oct '24

Pepper starts to cut variable rates after two ECB reductions

Pepper Advantage, the mortgage services provider used by a number of investment funds for Irish loans acquired after the financial crash, has started to cut variable rates months after the European Ce -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 27 Sep '24

Increase in mortgage approvals continues in August as switching activity picks up

First-time buyers (FTBs) continued to dominate the market, representing 61.5 per cent of total approvals in the period. “In fact, August 2024 saw the highest FTB August values and volumes since the -  Subscribe
© Irish Independent 26 Sep '24

People using Help-to-Buy scheme earn more and buy bigger homes than other first-time buyers

Those availing of the Help-To-Buy scheme also tend to have smaller deposits and be younger than other new buyers, according to a research paper by two Central Bank economists. -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 26 Sep '24

Bank of Ireland: Many Irish homebuyers paying a minimum of 10% above asking price amid ‘intense competition’

“Our analysis shows competition for homes intensified during the summer with close to 40 per cent of transactions now being settled at a minimum 10 per cent premium over the original asking price,†-  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 26 Sep '24

One in eight home buyers using gifts or inheritances to get on property ladder, research shows

Banking and Payments Federation: “Looking forward, housing output is expected to increase in the second half of the year with the annual number of completions due to be at or above the levels observ -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 26 Sep '24

AIB cuts interest rate on green rate mortgage

Green mortgages can be applied to properties that have a BER rating of A1 to B3, and can also be applied to self-build properties with more than five years left on the mortgage term. -  Subscribe
© Business Post 14 Aug '24

ECB will cut rates six times by end of 2025, analysts predict

ECB officials have left little doubt that more rate cuts will follow, though they’ve refused to commit to a particular schedule, citing an uncertain economic backdrop -  Subscribe
© Irish Independent 15 Jul '24

PTSB could compete ‘more aggressively’ in mortgage market if regulator revised risk level, say Barclays analysts

Analysts recently released a report that examined various areas of the Irish banking sector. These included analysis of PTSB, research into who can compete for mortgage market share in Ireland, and -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 09 Jul '24

ICS Mortgages cuts rates for buy-to-let borrowers

ICS Mortgages has announced rate cuts for its buy-to-let mortgage products in anticipation of further interest rate reductions at European Central Bank (ECB) level. The nonbank lender, owned by Dil -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 03 Jul '24

Revolut plans Irish mortgages launch in first half of 2025

The market has received a fresh injection of competition this year, with ICS Mortgages lowering rates and easing lending restrictions, and Moco, owned by Austrian bank Bawag, making inroads into the m -  Subscribe
© The Property Week 20 Jun '24

Report on the Availability, Composition and Flow of Finance for Residential Development

DOWNLOAD HERE > The Department of Finance overview of the funding landscape: "there is reasonable access to finance for viable development. However, viability remains a challenge in certain segments, -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 14 Jun '24

First-time buyers looking further afield for homes amid stiff competition, BPFI research says

Some 26,000 first-time buyer mortgages were drawn down in 2023 with a total value of €7.2 billion. This represented a 1.6 per cent increase in the number of home loan drawdowns to the highest level -  Subscribe
© The Irish Times 30 May '24

Irish mortgages start-up Nua to go live with initial brokers within weeks

The company, co-founded in late 2021 by bond market veterans Fergal O’Leary and Mark Watson, is understood to be close to finalising a wholesale funding line from a major international bank. It is -  Subscribe
© Irish Examiner 01 May '24

MoCo Austrian parent firm amasses €1bn in Irish commercial property loans

The €1.15 billion in loans means that 23 per cent of the bank’s commercial real estate lending is located here. Nearly all of the bank’s Irish lending relates to deals with commercial real est -  Subscribe
© Irish Independent 12 Apr '24

Bank of Ireland's new mortgage product could force buyers into more debt, broker says

The move by Bank of Ireland to give mortgage discounts to ­homeowners as long as they have some form of energy rating would force large numbers of buyers to take on more debt, Michael Dowling said. -  Subscribe
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