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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Primetime RTE: features Irish Mortgage Brokers on ‘rent control’, 31st March 2015

Primetime did a large piece on the property market taking it from the angle of tenants and landlords. This was a very well balanced and well thought out show which gave the views of both sides fairly. Afterwards there was a studio debate about rent controls also referred to as ‘rent certainty’.

While it can be argued that ‘control’ and ‘certainty’ are two different things, they are ultimately closely related and can cause market distortions.

Labour Senator Aideen Hayden who is also the chairperson of Threshold was there as was Karl Deeter from Irish Mortgage Brokers, David McCullagh was the presenter.

Speaking time: Aideen Hayden – 5 minutes, Karl Deeter – 3 minutes.

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Irish Mortgage Brokers at the inaugural Euromoney Conference

The EuroMoney conference was held for the firs time in Dublin last week and opened by the Minister of Finance Michael Noonan. It had a great line up of speakers including several CEO’s of our largest financial institutions and was an opportunity for professional practitioners to discuss recent developments and many aspects of the market in general.

Karl Deeter was there to represent Irish Mortgage Broker and to take part in the panel discussion on property.

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RTE Primetime: Homelessness crisis – a housing problem 24th November 2014

We took part in a panel discussion on homelessness and more importantly in the rise in rough sleepers. This issue was made worse by government policy and the reduction in low end housing at the same time as there was no investment in social housing.

We tried to point out that there are consequences to many policies and that were introduced such as rent allowance cuts in the past.

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