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VHI hikes prices again as 6,000 ditch health cover every month
FAMILIES will end up paying out an extra €600 a year for health insurance after the VHI announced another hike.
Banks tighten loan terms amid property-price fears
BANKS are making it harder for people to get mortgages because they believe house prices will keep falling and fear the economy will continue to slow down.
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Householders now less gloomy about finances
CONSUMERS started the year by being less gloomy about their finances.
- New hikes see cost of running family car to hit €100-a-week
- Mortgage-to-rent scheme helps, but thousands will still struggle
- First family to avail of debt deal will lose house but save home
- Homeowners can write down mortgage debt in new bill but strict conditions
- Consumer allowed to write down mortgage debt as part of new Insolvency Bill
Chasing arrears
THE official arrears figures make pretty grim reading. Of the current mortgages, a massive 62,970 were in arrears of more than 90 days at the end of September last year.
Cash buyers snap up bargain properties in key spots nationwide
CASH buyers are snapping up bargain properties that would not have been affordable during the boom.
- NTMA warns house prices will fall again in line with income decline
- Securing a mortgage is the vital element now in buying a house
- Freefall in property prices to continue, say experts
- Mortgage holders to get refunds after bank's blunder
- Dublin house prices at lowest in 12 years after latest dip updated
Pension fund to buy direct stakes in Irish firms
Some of the €5.3bn remaining in the National Pension Reserve Fund can be used to be buy direct stakes in Irish companies, the NTMA has decided.
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