Apply for a mortgage online.

Mortgages in Ireland have yet to establish a truly ‘online’ presence, so if you got here by searching for an ‘online mortgage’ or something along those lines then I’ll break the bad news first, it ain’t gonna happen. What you can do is make an initial mortgage application online via this site, and one of the representatives from Irish Mortgage Brokers will call/email you back.

The actual process generally tends to be that you will speak to a qualified consultant (our team have qualifications varying from ACCA <accountant>, QFA <qualified financial adviser> to LIAM(dip) <mortgage diploma> along with various university certificates, diplomas and degrees in many topics), your consultant will help determine what you can or cannot obtain in the lending market for a property purchase and from that point it will be up to you to decide if you’d like to proceed.

After that you will (usually) meet with us and we’ll gather the various documents the bank need to underwrite the mortgage and …

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The bailout has arrived, Irish banks in line for Government funds.

The banking bailout has come along, as many of us always thought it would, in the form of a (potential) €10 billion Euro package. An announcement was made yesterday and shares in financial institutions surged on the back of the news. The actual details of the deal are scant at present.

The Minister of Finance remarked on RTE radio that the main thing he hoped to see as a result of this was for lending to return to the market, we can only assume this refers to enterprise lending and not to mortgages as the mortgage market has not frozen to the same degree the business loan/credit area has.

The National Pension Fund Reserve is the area the funds will come from, an obvious issue here is that the fund made losses of c. 33% in the last year and cashing out now will mean those losses are crystallised without hope of return should the markets come back any time soon. …

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