RTE Six One News: Insolvency Service piece by Conor Hunt, 3rd April 2014

We gave a few thoughts on the recent ISI figures.

That the case numbers are low is to be expected, firstly, informal negotiations have had a six year head start, you can’t expect the ISI to be caught up already, secondly, in the UK it took about a decade for the system in general to find its feet.

Lastly, many people don’t want to use personal insolvency as it is rigid and informal deals are not to the same extent, banks offer better terms outside of insolvency, and perhaps the greatest success is that banks are doing these deals only since the ISI launched.

Prior to that they wouldn’t so the fear of people using these solutions has spurred the lenders into action.

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Six One News looks at the problem of Rent Receivers

Rent receivers are generally sent in when a landlord is unable to meet the terms of their contract. It doesn’t mean they can’t pay anything (although often insolvency is behind it), sometimes the landlord is on an ‘interest only’ term that reverts to capital and interest and the uplift in cost means there is no way they can meet the increased commitment.

The issue is also more common in properties with equity because the bank don’t stand to suffer a loss in that position (they do in properties with negative equity), it’s also used as a more coercive approach to borrowers who want to hold on to trackers, as ‘interest only’ is often extended for people willing to forgo that aspect of their contract.

Unbalanced taxation on property is also a concern, the ability to tax a cash flow loss on residential property makes it a difficult trade off of ‘who shall we upset’ the choice being the bank or Revenue (most opt for the former).

 

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Primetime: Tanya Sillem looks at the rental market

Tanya Sillem of PrimeTime looked at the rental market and how many people are facing difficult increases in rental prices. Lorcan Sirr of DIT commented as did Threshold.

A key focus was the story of one Dublin mother of three who lost her home when faced with a large increase in rental cost, in our mind this highlights bad housing policy and an absence of supply of suitable accommodation.

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RTE 6 News: Property prices

In this piece covering property prices, the increases in Dublin and the situation around the rest of the country we gave a brief comment highlighting that for the first time outside of Dublin there was a year on year sign of stabilisation in prices. Paul Murphy gave some excellent analysis on the topic.

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