# arrears - Tuesday 23 June, 2020
# Covid19
# Covid19
The lowest number of mortgage arrears since 2010 was recorded in the first quarter of the year.
# arrears - Tuesday 8 October, 2019
# Sold
# Sold
There are 2,800 home loans and 375 buy-to-let loans included in the portfolio.
# arrears - Tuesday 21 May, 2019
# Cabot Financial
# Cabot Financial
Taoiseach has said it is now time for to review the tax treatment of vulture funds.
# arrears - Friday 19 April, 2019
# Arrears
# Arrears
An Oireachtas committee yesterday heard legislation is needed to ensure banks cannot sell mortgages to vulture funds without a customer’s consent.
# arrears - Saturday 13 April, 2019
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
The Central Bank is aware that a regulated entity has written to a number of buy-to-let borrowers in arrears.
# arrears - Tuesday 26 February, 2019
# Repossessions
# Repossessions
The Bill aims to broaden the matters a judge needs to take into account when considering repossessions.
# arrears - Saturday 2 February, 2019
# Abhaile
# Abhaile
Changes to the funding structure of the government’s mortgage arrears assistance scheme mean solicitors will have to show why they need a barrister for each case.
# arrears - Monday 28 January, 2019
# Abhaile
# Abhaile
Just 30% of those who engaged with Abhaile’s financial advice have a solution in place or are on track for one.
# arrears - Sunday 13 January, 2019
# Dragging Their Heels
# Dragging Their Heels
People who are working every day with customers in arrears say lenders are still refusing to cooperate in any significant way.
# arrears - Friday 11 January, 2019
# Fair Mortgage Bill
# Fair Mortgage Bill
Edmund Honohan urged the Fianna Fáil leader to support a piece of legislation he wrote that is currently before the Dáil.
# arrears - Friday 28 December, 2018
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
Varadkar says he tried to remove split mortgage-holders from recent loan book sales but failed to do so.
# arrears - Sunday 23 December, 2018
# Security
# Security
KBC Ireland said it is taking additional measures to ensure the safety of its staff.
# arrears - Saturday 22 December, 2018
# Social Housing
# Social Housing
Dublin City Council tenants paid a total of €78.3 million in rent last year.
# arrears - Thursday 20 December, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
Unregulated loan owners hold 17% of all mortgages in arrears over 720 days.
# arrears - Saturday 24 November, 2018
# Great Irish Sell Off
# Great Irish Sell Off
The Central Bank said no sanctions have been put in place since the Code of Conduct on
Mortgage Arrears commencement in 2009.
# Arrears
# Arrears
There has been a slowdown in the number of cases being issued, but it is unclear where exactly the situation stands now.
# arrears - Saturday 17 November, 2018
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Brendan Burgess claims there is “no tsunami” of arrears cases now.
# arrears - Monday 29 October, 2018
# Concrete
# Concrete
Just a month before the government announced a redress scheme for the thousands of impacted homeowners, Karl Murtagh was told his mortgage had been sold.
# arrears - Tuesday 11 September, 2018
# Arrears
# Arrears
Minister Charlie Flanagan today praised the success of the Abhaile legal advice scheme, but did not indicate it would be extended to provide full representation.
# arrears - Friday 31 August, 2018
# Arrears
# Arrears
The vulture fund that bought the loans has confirmed it is not currently putting forward cases for this scheme.
# arrears - Saturday 18 August, 2018
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
‘Mary’ has been out of work since her cancer diagnosis. She had no idea her mortgage was to be sold to a vulture fund.
# arrears - Monday 13 August, 2018
# Arrears
# Arrears
The portfolio, worth €1.4 billion, is to be sold to Cerberus Capital Management LP.
# arrears - Sunday 29 July, 2018
# Repossessions
# Repossessions
The numbers are down on recent years but there still has been almost 300 cases initiated in the High Court.
# arrears - Tuesday 10 July, 2018
# Housing Crisis
# Housing Crisis
The bill, written by the Master of the High Court Edmund Honohan, was introduced in the Dáil today.
# arrears - Wednesday 20 June, 2018
# Debt
# Debt
The number of accounts in arrears over 720 days has fallen but these cases still account for 41% of all accounts in arrears.
# arrears - Friday 8 June, 2018
# Arrears
# Arrears
This week Edmund Honohan again highlighted the need for a legal aid system in repossession cases.
# arrears - Thursday 17 May, 2018
# Mortgage Arrears
# Mortgage Arrears
Hall told the Finance Committee that a narrative has been fostered that people in long-term arrears are “messers”.
# arrears - Thursday 22 March, 2018
# Vultures
# Vultures
Executives blamed the European regulator for the classification of these loans as non-performing.
# arrears - Saturday 24 February, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
The bank recently announced it is to sell off a €3.7 billion portfolio of non-performing loans, including mortgages 14,000 private dwelling homes.
# arrears - Friday 23 February, 2018
# Vulture Fears
# Vulture Fears
Ulster Bank said today that it would be looking to offload around 7,000 mortgages on top of PTSB’s proposed 18,000.
# arrears - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
# Mortgage Arrears
# Mortgage Arrears
Master Honohan asked if it’s a “sick joke” that people writing to the Taoiseach were told to seek help from Abhaile.
# arrears - Tuesday 20 February, 2018
# New Laws
# New Laws
The bill would give greater powers to the government’s Abhaile scheme and provide stronger protections for people who are in debt.
# arrears - Monday 25 December, 2017
# Arrears
# Arrears
Legal and financial experts say there are ways they can help – especially if people come to them at an early stage.
# arrears - Sunday 24 December, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
More than 30,000 accounts have been in arrears for more than two years.
# arrears - Saturday 9 December, 2017
# Abhaile
# Abhaile
Edmund Honohan criticised the government for failing to deliver systems it had promised to help keep people in their homes.
# arrears - Sunday 26 November, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
Ten percent of home mortgage accounts in this country are in arrears.
# arrears - Saturday 11 November, 2017
# Dear Leo
# Dear Leo
Edmund Honohan: ‘What kind of a way is that for a bank to approach its customers?’
# arrears - Friday 8 September, 2017
# Arrears
# Arrears
He fears such action would destroy his business, the High Court has heard.
# arrears - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
# Extortion
# Extortion
The man’s food and rent bills have fallen into arrears by almost €2,000.
# arrears - Wednesday 2 August, 2017
# Insolvency
# Insolvency
€588 million worth of insolvency applications were made between April and June this year.
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