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Highest auction price of year as home in need of repair fetches €2.9m
A house in need of updating has been sold for €2.9m – or €400,000 over its guide price.
Mortgage lending plunges by 66pc in first quarter
THE mortgage market slowed dramatically in the first three months of the year.
Homeowners can move and keep their tracker mortgages
Homeowners who want to move house but are afraid of losing their low interest tracker mortgages will be offered a lifeline by two major banks. A tracker is a mortgage linked to the currently low rate set by the European Central Bank.
Customers taking out more cash to beat charges
SAVVY consumers have found ways to beat the banks. They are withdrawing cash in larger amounts to get around charges being imposed on them to operate day-to-day bank accounts.
Make me richer: good deals this week
Usually it's a really dumb idea to get all your services from one company in a bundle.
Revealed: the top performing funds in the world – and the real dogs
IT'S about a year since the Greeks were withdrawing about €800m a day from their banks amid fears that the country could be forced out of the euro.
- Now AIB ready to let movers keep their trackers
- Highest auction price of year as home in need of repair fetches €2.9m
- House prices still falling – but rise expected in 2015
- US-type house auction scheme could free our 'pillar banks' from loans in less than year
- Noonan: making AIB pass on rate cuts would 'penalise' taxpayers
- Mortgage lending plunges by 66pc in first quarter
- Homeowners can move and keep their tracker mortgages
- Customers taking out more cash to beat charges
- Revealed: the top performing funds in the world – and the real dogs
- Make me richer: good deals this week
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Property & mortgages
Highest auction price of year as home in need of repair fetches €2.9m
A house in need of updating has been sold for €2.9m – or €400,000 over its guide price.
Now AIB ready to let movers keep their trackers
A THIRD financial institution is considering offering new mortgage deals to existing homeowners who wish to move home while keeping their tracker mortgages.
Mortgage lending plunges by 66pc in first quarter
THE mortgage market slowed dramatically in the first three months of the year.
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SAVVY consumers have found ways to beat the banks. They are withdrawing cash in larger amounts to get around charges being imposed on them to operate day-to-day bank accounts.
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