We got a mention in today’s Indo in the ‘Your Money’ section, the story is about the one year freeze banks have on repossessions.
The article by John Cradden covers the main issues of the day in the repossessions arena as well as giving some great general advice on ways to protect yourself from potential rate hikes by lenders.
We have moved our offices to a new location (still on Pearse Street) to 33 Pearse Street. It’s about 250 metres towards the city centre from our old offices, and three doors down from O’Neills pub (everybody in Ireland seems to use pubs as landmarks!).
The new office decision came when our lease on our old office came up for review, we felt that there were deals to be had on the market and it didn’t make any sense to stay put, if you drive down Pearse Street aiming to go to the north side then you’ll have to pass our offices, its the place painted red and yellow.
Other than our location everything else has stayed the same (our broadband is temporarily down), you can email us at our regular email addresses and our phone number is still 01 679 0990. Individual broker direct dial phone numbers have changed but we’ll publish them soon on our website and make sure that everybody gets an email.
The blog will be back up to full speed as of next week and …
The Irish Broker Association (IBA) made an approach to the Professional Insurance Brokers Association (PIBA) whereby their 300 strong membership might amalgamate with PIBAS nearly 800. They all went into a room and entered negotiations. This wasn’t a case where one had a gun to another’s head, it was something that would be of mutual benefit to all brokers in Ireland, because brokers, unlike almost any other industry, don’t have a single representative body.
So it makes total sense right? Of course it does! Standing as a united front and being able to ensure that members reach certain standards of operation, giving a voice to a multi-million euro industry, there is such great scope that I figured ‘even if we have to get over 75% in favour we’ll still be able to do it’. And we were.
Actually, PIBA were, the votes came in and in a voice of unity we voted with an 80% majority to go ahead and make one proper representative body.
The IBA on the other hand, who actually made the approach for all of this …
The Irish Broker Association (IBA) made an approach to the Professional Insurance Brokers Association (PIBA) whereby their 300 strong membership might amalgamate with PIBAS nearly 800. They all went into a room and entered negotiations. This wasn’t a case where one had a gun to another’s head, it was something that would be of mutual benefit to all brokers in Ireland, because brokers, unlike almost any other industry, don’t have a single representative body.
So it makes total sense right? Of course it does! Standing as a united front and being able to ensure that members reach certain standards of operation, giving a voice to a multi-million euro industry, there is such great scope that I figured ‘even if we have to get over 75% in favour we’ll still be able to do it’. And we were.
Actually, PIBA were, the votes came in and in a voice of unity we voted with an 80% majority to go ahead and make one proper representative body.
The IBA on the other hand, who actually made the approach for all of this …