# vulture-funds - Thursday 31 January, 2019
The Bill puts into law what already exists at the moment as a voluntary Central Bank code
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# vulture-funds - Thursday 24 January, 2019
A proposed new EU Directive aims to develop a secondary market for non-performing loans and poses a serious threat to the rights of borrowers and consumers, writes Matt Carthy.
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# vulture-funds - Friday 11 January, 2019
Edmund Honohan urged the Fianna Fáil leader to support a piece of legislation he wrote that is currently before the Dáil.
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# vulture-funds - Thursday 20 December, 2018
Unregulated loan owners hold 17% of all mortgages in arrears over 720 days.
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# vulture-funds - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
Last week, PTSB bank bosses confirmed that the ‘special purpose vehicle’ which more than 6,000 of its mortgages have been transferred to will be exempt from tax.
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# vulture-funds - Tuesday 13 November, 2018
Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said there will be no change to the code of conduct, as it is working effectively.
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# vulture-funds - Friday 7 September, 2018
Tens of thousands of people are still feeling the effects of the mortgage crisis ten years later.
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# vulture-funds - Thursday 6 September, 2018
Last month, PTSB sold its controversial Project Glas loan portfolio to an affiliate of the so-called vulture fund Lone Star for around €1.3 billion.
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# vulture-funds - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty said a full committee session should be dedicated to the loan book sale.
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# vulture-funds - Saturday 18 August, 2018
‘Mary’ has been out of work since her cancer diagnosis. She had no idea her mortgage was to be sold to a vulture fund.
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# vulture-funds - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
Questions have been mounting as to where Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is in the midst of this summer’s vulture fund sell off.
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# vulture-funds - Monday 6 August, 2018
In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Shane Ross also says the government needs to have more of a say in State-owned banks.
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# vulture-funds - Tuesday 31 July, 2018
A total of 7,400 are owner-occupier mortgages, while 3,300 are buy-to-let properties.
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# vulture-funds - Thursday 10 May, 2018
Around 3,600 of the mortgages are private dwellings that have fallen in arrears.
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# vulture-funds - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
The IFA has been contacted by around 200 farmers impacted by the issue so far this year.
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# vulture-funds - Thursday 15 March, 2018
Councillors have said the direction from the Department of Housing is an attempt to undermine local democracy.
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# vulture-funds - Monday 12 March, 2018
Housing charity Threshold says numerous renters had contacted it over problems with vulture funds and receivers.
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# vulture-funds - Friday 9 March, 2018
The protesters accuse the bank of putting the lives of people in almost 20,000 households in jeopardy.
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# vulture-funds - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
The utilisation of State land for affordable rental properties and the regulation of vulture funds is to be debated in the Dáil.
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# vulture-funds - Tuesday 27 February, 2018
The Central Bank is to review their code of conduct for how financial institutions deal with those in mortgage arrears.
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# vulture-funds - Saturday 24 February, 2018
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.
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With tens of thousands of mortgage holders potentially facing vulture funds, we spoke to some people who’ve been through it already.
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# vulture-funds - Friday 23 February, 2018
Ulster Bank said today that it would be looking to offload around 7,000 mortgages on top of PTSB’s proposed 18,000.
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# vulture-funds - Thursday 22 February, 2018
Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty said the bank has been asked to appear before the Oireachtas Finance Committee next week.
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# vulture-funds - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
PTSB, which is 75% State owned, has been defending its plan to sell off a book of non-performing loans.
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# vulture-funds - Tuesday 20 February, 2018
The proposed sell-off has become the subject of a political battle in recent days.
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# vulture-funds - Thursday 15 February, 2018
PTSB, which is 75% owned by the State, states it is selling off non-performing loans.
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# vulture-funds - Monday 12 February, 2018
Pentire Property Finance is a subsidiary of US investment giant CarVal.
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# vulture-funds - Thursday 18 January, 2018
The Central Bank’s governor Philip Lane confirmed 13,000 impacted customers are still waiting to get their money back.
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# vulture-funds - Sunday 7 January, 2018
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice talks rural crime, drink-driving and hits out against the Independent Alliance
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# vulture-funds - Saturday 19 August, 2017
We lost our home but our story is not unique and we are far from alone, writes Carly Bailey.
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# vulture-funds - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
Members of the Dublin Tenants’ Association will today picket outside the offices of Ires Reit.
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# vulture-funds - Wednesday 28 June, 2017
Speaking about his new Housing Co-op Bill, Norris said people appear to have forgotten that “eviction” is a dirty word in Ireland.
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# vulture-funds - Sunday 9 April, 2017
The IFA says if vulture funds come after farmers they’ll have to get to them through them first.
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# vulture-funds - Friday 10 February, 2017
The inviolability of the family home is enshrined in our Constitution, writes solicitor Jody Cantillon.
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# vulture-funds - Wednesday 25 January, 2017
The management contract was “terminated” by a division of the Department of Justice today.
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# vulture-funds - Monday 16 January, 2017
AAA-PBP is kicking off the first day of the Dáil session tomorrow with its Anti-Eviction Bill.
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# vulture-funds - Thursday 12 January, 2017
Housing Minister Simon Coveney said he is looking to get involved in the case.
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# vulture-funds - Monday 9 January, 2017
Housing has become the biggest issue for hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland.
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# vulture-funds - Sunday 8 January, 2017
New research has shown companies pay just €250 in tax a year.
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