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property crash

# property-crash - Thursday 16 May, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: Tenants shouldn’t pay the price for landlords struggling with mortgage repayments

There’s a crisis in the buy-to-let sector due to landlords falling into mortgage arrears and innocent tenants are getting caught in the chaos. Receivers have to realise people renting properties are not commodities, writes Bod Jordan.

# property-crash - Tuesday 2 April, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Fáilte

Best place for US business folk to retire? Ireland.

Wall Street Journal sister site MarketWatch recommends Ireland as its top spot for a happy retirement.

# property-crash - Thursday 7 February, 2013

From Business ETC Auction This post contains images

Clare hotel and Dublin Georgian house in distressed property auction

The Kilkee Bay Hotel has a maximum reserve of €315,000 while a bar in Clifden, Galway has a reserve of €450,000.

# property-crash - Saturday 15 December, 2012

From The Daily Edge Not The News

Here is the week’s news…skewed

Breaking via The Mire wire: Kerry priest tells children there is no God; Government pledge to help homeowners become homeless; Craig Doyle = why?

# property-crash - Thursday 4 October, 2012

From Business ETC Property Crash

Property market could need decades to recover from bust, says Central Bank

A working paper shows Ireland’s property crash is among the most drastic in the world – and it may take years to recover.

# property-crash - Wednesday 12 September, 2012

From Business ETC Property

Block of 119 apartments for sale for €26m

Development in Ranelagh, Dublin 6 being put to market with apartments, office space and car parking in one lot.

# property-crash - Thursday 6 September, 2012

From Business ETC Distressed Property

Sacred Heart convent in Roscrea for sale for €100,000

Latest distressed property features former convent in Tipperary with top reserve price of €100,000.

# property-crash - Sunday 8 July, 2012

From TheJournal.ie NAMA

NAMA says it will give 2,000 homes for social housing. So far: there’s just 58

NAMA had planned to fill 2000 homes by the end of 2012.

# property-crash - Friday 6 July, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Distresed This post contains images

Entire Kerry housing estate sells for €235,000 at property auction

A castle in Kildare sold for €195,000 after attracting huge interest from buyers at the Allsop property auction.

# property-crash - Monday 2 July, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Property Crash

The maps that explain the state of Ireland’s property market right now

Researchers at AIRO have put together the maps which show average prices and rents for more than 1,000 areas across the country over the past five years.

# property-crash - Monday 30 April, 2012

From Business ETC Property Crash

Central Bank paper suggests house prices have ‘over-corrected’

A research paper tries to examine why Irish house prices keep falling – and suggests the drop has gone too far.

# property-crash - Wednesday 11 April, 2012

From Business ETC Property This post contains images

Would you like a house for €15,000?

It’s in Cavan but it’s a two-bed semi-detached – just one of the ‘distressed’ properties in latest auction.

# property-crash - Monday 2 April, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Your Say This post contains a poll

Poll: Is now a good time to buy a home?

Two house price reports are out today – both say house prices still falling, but one says that slide is now very slow. Tell us what you think…

# property-crash - Saturday 25 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie One Year On

Eamon Ryan: Greens predicted property crash but didn’t do enough to warn people

In the final part of the series of interviews with politicians, Eamon Ryan explains how he hopes people will be willing to vote for the Green Party again by the next election

# property-crash - Friday 20 January, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Backwards Bid

Reverse-bid auction “our only chance to sell our home”

Following TheJournal.ie’s story on unusual house sale in Westmeath, another Midlands couple says negative equity has forced them to look at alternative. But will it work?

# property-crash - Saturday 14 January, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: House prices need to fall further, or our economy is in danger

Have property prices finally bottomed out? We’d better hope not, writes Michael Taft.

# property-crash - Thursday 29 December, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: Our landlord went into receivership – now we’re in limbo

Her building crumbling and in legal limbo, Alsa Campbell writes about how tenants are finding themselves at the sharp end of landlords’ financial troubles.

# property-crash - Thursday 22 December, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Mortgages

1 in 10 Irish mortgages are in arrears

At the same time, one-fifth of all mortgage holders are believed to be having difficulties in meeting mortgage repayments.

# property-crash - Tuesday 20 December, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Property Crash

House prices still in freefall, down 15.6 per cent for the year

Property prices are down a massive 46 per cent from their peak, according to new figures from the CSO.

# property-crash - Thursday 15 September, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: Renting is the future – and not just for houses

As the property crash continues to bite, people are avoiding big commitments to their homes, cars and even relationships, writes Gerard O’Neill.

# property-crash - Sunday 21 August, 2011

From Business ETC Your Say This post contains a poll

Poll: Do you think struggling households should get mortgage debt relief?

The campaign to have debt forgiveness introduced for those unable to meet their home loan payments is gathering voice. Do you think there should be such a scheme?

From Business ETC Mortgage Debt

Writing off mortgage debt is an “emergency” need

Chorus of calls for Government to organise a mortgage debt relief scheme for worst-off householders builds to crescendo – and now a government junior minister is backing it…

# property-crash - Monday 4 July, 2011

From Business ETC Property

Average house price now under €200k – and there’s still room to fall

Daft.ie report shows property price fall accelerated in second quarter of 2011. Asking prices nationally fell 5 per cent in three months.

# property-crash - Monday 27 June, 2011

From Business ETC Distressed This post contains images

Distressed property auction ‘likely to be success’

Organisers of July firesale of properties in Dublin says he is not put off by collapse in sales at Cork ‘discounted’ property auction last week.

# property-crash - Friday 4 March, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Auction This post contains images

A family home for €100,000: The bargain basement property auction

Flick through our slideshow to see some of the rock-bottom reserve prices on ‘distressed’ properties that are heading for auction.

# property-crash - Monday 21 February, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Distressed Property

Knock-down Irish property auction drawing foreign buyers

Sale of ‘distressed’ properties is set for 15 April in Dublin – and agent says the homes and commercial spaces on offer will be priced “aggressively”.