A blunder on around 35,000 KBC mortgages transferred to Bank of Ireland has led to fears the borrowers' credit ratings may be impacted. The mortgage 'start date' was incorrectly entered into Bank of Ireland systems, and as a result, the lender did not submit the data to the Central Bank's Central Credit Register (CCR). And Bank of
“Want to go halves on a mortgage?” This tongue-in-cheek pick-up line on dating apps from millennials sums up a property market so unaffordable that house prices are now almost eight times the average salary. A desperation among millennials to escape stratospheric rents meant the number of first-time buyers drawing down mortgages soared last year to levels last
THE Central Bank has told the Minister for Finance it does not want powers to cap the interest rates that vulture funds can charge mortgage holders. It comes as thousands of borrowers are at risk of going into arrears as they are being charged rates as high as 7pc by vulture funds that bought their
