The rich will prosper when the rules make sure they do.

We have been critics of the Central Bank mortgage lending caps, believing instead that a rule similar to section 149 of the Consumer Credit Act could be used on underwriting to ensure that banks can’t find any way to loosen standards rather than employing ‘hard caps’.

What’s more, it has kept many people out, caused a chaotic 4th quarter and ensures that well off people are unaffected while those most harmed are the less well off. Our submission to CP87 was ignored in its entirety but that doesn’t matter because the results speak for themselves.

Mortgage lending is still mainly going to first time buyers, 57% of draw-downs were to first time buyers, but then look at the income multiple and you see that this is nearly five times average earnings.

What does that mean? For a start, that people on high wages with high savings were doing a lot of the lending, of course that’s fine because it was always a case that they had access to credit.

The issue is more …

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Irish Times mention Irish Mortgage Brokers in article about renting

We were quoted in a this piece by Aoife Valentine of the Irish Times which was an interesting article about the situation renters face.

When discussing the rising age of first time buyers she quoted us as we mentioned that “this is something that’s become very obvious to mortgage broker Karl Deeter.

“When I started working in lending in around 2003, people in their 20s were borrowing. Nowadays, your typical applicant is no longer 24 to35, they’re 30 to 40,” he says.

New mortgage lending rules issued by the Central Bank in January say that first-time buyers may borrow only 3-and-a-half times their gross annual income, and they must save a 10 per cent deposit on the first €220,000 of the value of the property and a 20 per cent deposit on any higher value.

Deeter believes these rules are now having an effect on who gets on the property ladder.

“What the deposit rules have done is keep people in the rental sector when they otherwise would have been …

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Podcast: Who lends the most to those with the least? Barry Clarke discusses in episode 00002

A thing that people usually miss out on when they don’t deal with a broker is the ‘unwritten’ criteria of banks or the market segmentation they seek. Anybody with a lot of money can get a loan almost anywhere, but if you aren’t in the Howard Hughes end of the market then you can find yourself refused by one lender and welcome by another but have no idea why.

In this episode Barry Clarke talks about why one lender in particular (and this is going to change soon) is doing the most for people who have the least.

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Podcast: Mistakes that first time buyers make with Joanne Daly, episode 00001

Joanne Daly has been a broker for 13 years and in this piece she speaks to Karl Deeter about the errors that first time buyers make prior to making their mortgage application, thankfully most of what she mentions is easily rectified!

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