The ‘Talking Money’ book by Karl Deeter & Jill Kerby

We are delighted that Irish Life decided to sponsor our book ‘Talking Money’ which is based on the successful radio segment that has been on the RTE Radio 1 ‘Drivetime’ show with Mary Wilson for about the last year and a half.

It’s free to download, here is a link to a pdf copy, or you can get it from Irish Life’s website, and we’ll have a limited number of hard copies too.

We are really excited about this and hope you find the information in the book useful – one thing is for sure, the price is right!

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TV3 Late Review, discussion on ‘a constitutional right to housing’

In this piece we were asked to contribute to a conversation on the constitutional right to housing. Maeve Regan from The Mercy Law Resource Centre discussed the merits of the idea which was put forward by the charity she heads up, while Karl Deeter took the view that an addition to the constitution of a right to housing won’t resolve the problem and that the right already exists.

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Talking Money: Downsizing your home, 3rd August 2015

Last week on Drivetime’s ‘Talking Money’ we discussed the idea of ‘downsizing’ your home and what it means, how to do it, and the things you might want to watch out for if you are considering downsizing.

As people age larger homes often become less of a requirement, equally, selling your primary home being capital gains free can be advantageous, so we looked at the angles and figured out what you should watch for.

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RTE Talking Money: The cost of raising kids

This week on RTE’s ‘Talking Money’ we looked at the cost of raising a child. Everybody who ever had kids knows it’s expensive, but did they realise it can cost about €105,000 per child? That’s a real eye opener and that so many parents cut back on vital financial needs like life insurance to allow for general consumption is a concern. As always, you’re bound to be entertained as Karl Deeter and Jill Kerby ‘talk money’.

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RTE News at 6 features Irish Mortgage Brokers

We were asked for a comment on the Central Bank switching report by RTE News at 6. We believe it is telling us what many already intuitively know, that by being assertive and moving away from lenders who charge more that people will ultimately save money.

There is a counterbalancing argument about the savings being estimated over the life of the loan, but equally, the report doesn’t factor in switching contributions which could sway it back in favour of moving from expensive providers to lower cost lenders.

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RTE Talking Money on Life Insurance

Back in June (sorry for the delay, we had the recording but didn’t post it!) we did a piece on life insurance and both how and why it matters.

As usual, Jill and Karl didn’t always agree on everything but the need to insure against your greatest risk was universally accepted and how to do it sensibly is really straight forward.

You can catch us again ‘Talking Money’ every Monday on RTE Drivetime at about 18:15.

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Talking Money – Switch your mortgage to save

This week on ‘Talking Money’ Karl Deeter and Jill Kerby were discussing ‘switching’ with Cormac on RTE’s Drivetime. It was coincidental that many of the points we made were reinforced by the Central Bank findings this week on mortgage switching on points such as assertive customer behaviour being important and not allowing inertia to hold people back.

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Newstalk: Shane Coleman & Karl Deeter discuss Rent Control, or ‘rent certainty’

Yesterday on Newstalk’s Breakfast show Shane Coleman spoke to Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers about rent controls and what effects they may have, it is also becoming known as ‘rent certainty’ which is a more politically correct version of the same expression.

Germans have struggled to make this workable, as have the French, these markets are also heralded as the markets we should aim to replicate, but why would we want their problems when we have problems of our own already?

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Drivetime RTE: Mary Wilson speaks to us about mortgage rates, 22nd May 2015

We spoke with Mary Wilson of Drivetime on RTE about mortgage rates and what the implications were of the changes Michael Noonan (Irish Minister of Finance) announced that day. We also read through the Central Bank report on the subject and considered the findings of their analysis in terms of the impact it might have on borrowers.

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Newstalk: Pat Kenny Show on variable rates

We were asked to speak with Pat Kenny today about variable rates and the government plan to intervene to make banks drop them. This was, after considering various pieces of evidence shown to be a deeply political rather than pragmatic move. We also demonstrated that there are documents which the Minister for Finance had drafted up with the banks specifically stating that he would not intervene on matters of pricing, the recent round of ‘meetings’ is in direct contravention of that.

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