THE European Central Bank (ECB) will have to start raising interest rates before employment picks up in the eurozone, in order to prevent inflation, German Bundesbank president and council member Axel Weber said yesterday.
THE first loans bound for the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) may not be transferred until January, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan told the Dail Finance Committee yesterday.
Recrutiment experts last night reported a significant increase in activity amid hopes that the jobs crisis is close to bottoming out, writes Aideen Sheehan.
Asking prices for residential property around the country have fallen by 4.7% in the last 3 months, according to the latest report published by property website Daft.ie. The national average asking price now stands at €253,000. Asking prices have now fallen 27% from the peak in 2007 which corresponds to an average drop of €93,000.
US investment giant Bridgewater Associates, which also runs the world's largest hedge fund, has described the NAMA project as "clever" and says it may provide a roadmap for the pumping of cheap funding into other struggling European economies.
Leading credit ratings agency Moody's said yesterday that the 30pc discount the country's banks face on loans bound for the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is in line with its own stress tests.
THE Independent Mortgage Advisers Federation (IMAF) has decided to enter talks with the Irish Brokers Association (IBA) and the Professional Insurance Brokers Association (PIBA) about the possibility of merging.
AFTER leaping to 12-month highs following the announcement of the haircut they will suffer on the bad loans which they sell to Nama, bank shares fell back on Friday. As the euphoria surrounding Wednesday's announcement wears off it is becoming clear that many questions about Nama remain unanswered.
"The fear had been that the Government would ignore existing investors and pump money in itself," a leading Dublin stockbroker told the Irish Independent. He added that this would have left taxpayers with a stake of up to 60pc in AIB.
Government estimates of Nama valuations appear implausible, are out of line with other property collapses and may impose massive losses on the taxpayer
Some parts of the Irish commercial property market are showing an increase in transaction volumes giving hope that confidence is returning to the real estate sector.
EBS has warned that the interest rates it charges for variable mortgages will have to go higher, although chief executive Fergus Murphy told RTE News this would not happen before the end of the year.
EBS Building Society says it will need up to €300 million of a capital injection from the Government after it transfers more than €500m in bad loans to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA).
The government plans to issue close to €60 billion in government bonds in return for the €90 billion property loans it will take from the banks, in a move that will spark major political controversy this week.
The mortgage market has experienced a dramatic turnaround from the height of the property boom. A couple of years ago it was awash with 100 per cent mortgages, incentives for switching, and interest-only products.
EBS Building Society is expected to wind down its mortgage broker business Haven, following a review which has seen the unit's boss Tony Moroney step down.
When Liam Carroll embarked on his first major company takeover in 2002 it may have taken him on a trail where he would eventually be ambushed by the stock market collapse.
Fine Gael today called for the Government to publish the names of the people that will be the beneficiaries of the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
An economist recently claimed that some development land may now be worth as little as 5pc of the original value, equating it to an agricultural value.
The Government has announced details of its plan to invest €7bn of taxpayers' money into AIB and Bank of Ireland to help the through institutions in the current financial crisis.
The UK pound rose the most against the euro since the debut of the common currency a decade ago on bets the ECB may be spurred to cut interest rates to limit the fallout from the recession.
If there is one economic certainty for 2009 it is that Irish house prices will continue to fall just as the economy accelerates in reverse. Even the most bullish of commentators or indeed vested interests have pencilled in 2010 as the earliest date for a turnaround.
A NEW study has shown that the majority of people who take out mortgages with expensive subprime lenders move to conventional lenders within three to four years.
EBS and Permanent TSB have confirmed they will pass on in full the full three-quarters of a percentage cut in interest rates introduced by the European Central Bank yesterday.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has cut borrowing costs by a record level in a bid to stimulate economic activity, as the euro zone sinks deeper into recession.
The European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates to at least a two-year low today armed with a new set of in-house forecasts likely to confirm that the euro zone economy is in serious trouble.
Bank of Ireland is understood to be reviewing its continued lending in the UK mortgage market -- where it has a £27.5bn (€33.8bn) loan book -- that could result in job cuts there.
A NUMBER of lenders have decided not to pass on interest rate cuts to their buy-to-let customers in a move that has been described as unfair to property investors.
The European Central Bank lowered interest rates for the second time in less than a month to counter the euro region's worst economic slump in 15 years.
The Bank of England slashed borrowing costs today by 150 basis points to soften the blow of a sharp economic downturn. The cut took interest rates to 3 per cent.
AT LEAST 140,000 homeowners have fallen into negative equity, with this figure expected to rise to 200,000 by the end of next year, it was warned last night.
The Construction Industry Federation (CIF) has written to the Financial Regulator, the Governor of the Central Bank and the Minister for Finance outlining complaints from its members about three banks that have raised interest rates and other charges on existing loans despite lower European Central Bank and interbank-lending rates.
Jean-Claude Trichet is extending the European Central Bank's (ECB) powers just as it gears up for what may be the fastest round of interest-rate cuts in its 10-year history.
Euribor, the euro rate that banks charge each other for three-month loans, fell more than 3 basis points to 4.79pc, the lowest level since last April, according to the European Banking Federation.
The number of houses being built across the State has hit a new low with construction starting on two-thirds fewer houses in the first nine months of this year than in the same period last year, according to the Department of the Environment.
The ability of Irish banks to see out the credit crunch with merely a government guarantee is becoming unrealistic, writes David Clerkin, Markets Correspondent.
The global banking system is past the danger of systemic meltdown following government intervention, but there will still be economic consequences, the chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority said today.
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Euro Zone interest rates could soon be cut for the first time in five years, the European Central Bank (ECB) signalled yesterday, after acknowledging that global financial turmoil had changed substantially the economic outlook for the 15-country region.
The Government has decided to put in place with immediate effect a guarantee arrangement to safeguard all deposits (retail, commercial, institutional and interbank).
The European Central Bank is widely expected to leave interest rates at 4.25 per cent when it meets later today, with a new set of staff economic projections and a likely rejig of collateral rules set to provide this month's fireworks.
The Government has brought forward the 2009 budget by almost two months in an effort to reassure the public that it intends to deal with the crisis in the public finances and the decline in consumer confidence.
Brian Cowen last night tried to get a grip on the country’s escalating economic crisis by calling an emergency October budget that looks primed to inflict deep spending cuts.
Two of the country's leading property developers are offering home buyers interest-free loans in an attempt to stimulate activity in the housing market.
The number of first-time buyers taking out mortgages has fallen by nearly a third, as lenders raise rates and make it harder for would-be buyers to get loan approvals.
THE Government will announce a range of new measures to help first-time homebuyers in a Budget being dramatically brought forward by nearly two months.
Up to 40 per cent of Irish Life and Permanent’s €27 billion Irish home loan book is tied up in unprofitable tracker mortgages linked to the European Central Bank (ECB) rate, according to figures provided by the company.
Property developer and philanthropist Niall Mellon will this week sign a$25 million deal with Merrill Lynch to broaden the activities of his housing trust in South Africa.
European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet has defended the institution's responses to the financial turmoil that has shaken global markets for the past year and warned the turbulence is not over.
The managing director of subprime lender Nua Homeloans is resigning and the company is shutting its doors to new business just 16 months after launching.
The chief executive of a specialist lending firm is taking the unusual step of going part-time due to the lack of growth opportunities in the business in yet another sign of the difficulties facing the funding-starved finance sector.
Mortgage brokers are being investigated over allegations that some of them colluded with estate agents to inflate property prices and rip off homebuyers.
The supply of available rental accommodation has more than doubled over the last twelve months, reaching an all-time high, according to the latest rental report from property website Daft.ie.
The housing market is going through a drastic correction at the moment which will see prices fall as much as 40pc from their peak, according to a survey of economists.
A leading lender was accused of writing off rural Ireland after it emerged it will only fund half the value of investment properties in smaller towns and country locations.
Jobs were shed in the building industry at the fastest rate in at least a decade last month, according to the latest Ulster Bank Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI).
he European Central Bank and the Bank of England left interest rates unchanged yesterday as signs of slowing economic growth left them no room for a tougher stance on rising inflation.
The tight squeeze on lending to home buyers and businesses that followed the US subprime crisis has eased slightly in the last three months, the European Central Bank said today.
British house prices declined faster in July than at any time in at least a quarter century. Banks starved the housing market of credit and pessimism about the economy increased, an HBOS report shows.
The worst may soon be over for hard-pressed consumers following clear signs that interest rates are on the way down and price rises will peak in the next few months.
The decline in commercial property values is gathering pace with the latest property index showing that capital values fell by 7.2 per cent in the three months to the end of June.
Almost 60,000 first-time buyers could be sitting on negative equity -- where they owe more on their mortgage than they would get if they sold their home -- if house prices fall by between 33 and 40 per cent below their peak in 2006, as predicted by stockbrokers NCB last week.
Bad debt judgments have almost doubled in the past five years, jumping to over €194m in the 12 months to June, compared to €105m in the year to June 2003, new figures confirm.
Housing completions dropped by nearly 29 per cent in the first half of the year, according to preliminary figures from the Department of the Environment.
British house prices fell 1.7 per cent on the month in July and at the fastest annual rate since at least 1991, the Nationwide building society said today, in a further sign the housing market is cooling fast.
Irish Life & Permanent is understood to have closed off a keenly awaited €3bn refinancing of term debt at its banking operations, which matures by the end of this quarter.
There is a curiously unsettling sound coming from a growing number of building sites currently in the North. Where you would expect to hear the usual din of construction machinery and banter between workers, you are met instead by the deafening sound of silence.
A building firm which paid €100 as a deposit for a €19m landbank near Dublin's Docklands is being sued by two developers who claim they are depending on the contract being honoured to complete other projects.
THE credit crunch may finally be hitting the rest of the eurozone, as new figures show growth in mortgage lending is at the lowest level since the launch of the euro.
According to figures release by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) today, the volume of output in building and construction decreased by 21.6% in the first quarter of 2008 compared with the first quarter of 2007.
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has warned that the downturn in the European economy will put further pressure on banks over the next couple of years.
SOME 7 per cent of the value of new mortgages sold last year, worth €2.36 billion, comprised 100 per cent mortgages, the Financial Regulator told the Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs yesterday.
Energy Minister Eamon Ryan TD today announced a new grant scheme which will provide financial support for the construction of highly energy efficient, low carbon housing.
MORTGAGE lenders are being probed by the Financial Regulator on their repossessions policies, to ensure they treat homeowners who fall behind on their repayments fairly.
British home sellers have slashed their asking prices by more than £4,000 (€5,000) during the past month as the number of properties on the market hits a new high, figures showed today.
Euro zone growth is likely to be weak in the second and third quarter before staging a recovery, and the risk of second-round inflation effects needs to be taken seriously and prevented, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet said.
HOMEOWNERS planning to switch their mortgage to avail of a better deal are set to be hit after it emerged that National Irish Bank is planning to hike its mortgage rates.
Up to 150 Irish property buyers are exposed to the collapsed Spanish construction giant Martinsa-Fadesa which has been unable to secure a €150m loan from the banks and creditors that hold its €5bn in debt.
THE SALE of its lands by a Dublin golf club, which would have earned each of its members €100,000, has fallen through because of the economic downturn.
TWO MORTGAGE lenders have raised interest rates by a margin greater than the quarter point increase from the European Central Bank (ECB) earlier this month, passing on to customers higher funding costs due to the international financial crisis.
The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury announced steps tonight to shore up mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose shares have plunged as losses from their mortgage holdings threatened their financial survival.
THE CONSTRUCTION sector contracted at a record rate during June, according to the latest figures from the Ulster Bank purchasing managers' index (pmi).
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said last week's interest-rate increase will help policy makers fight “worrying” inflation levels in the euro region.
The freefall in Irish banking stocks picked up pace yesterday as investors ignored reassurances from Bank of Ireland that the institution will not have to resort to additional funding to beef up its balance sheet as the global liquidity crisis continues to adversely impact its earnings.
Asking prices for property are at their lowest level since May 2006, according to the latest report published by the property website Daft.ie. Prices have fallen across the country by an average of 7.9% over the past 12 months, bringing the national average house price down to €324,000.
The main Irish banking stocks have fallen between 8 and 10 per cent in the first hour of trading to send the Dublin market almost 5 per cent lower, knocking almost €3 billion off the value of Irish shares.
SHARES in Irish Life & Permanent fell almost 10pc yesterday after Moody's Investors Service said it was cutting its "outlook" rating on the bank to negative, while retaining the group's core debt rating at "C plus".
THE Revenue Commissioners are to use estate agents to find out if investors are evading tax by under-declaring the amount they received for the sale of land or property.
This chart records the traumatic property experience of Japan. A monumental boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s reversed dramatically and house prices fell by 76.4pc from the peak.
The European Central Bank raised its main interest rate by a quarter of a point to a seven-year high of 4.25% today in an effort to combat record inflation.
IT is pretty certain that the European Central Bank will raise interest rates on Thursday week. This is likely to increase the cost for borrowers on existing tracker rates by around €45 a month, reduce the amount first-time buyers can borrow and further depress the moribund housing market.
THE ECONOMY will experience a recession this year for the first time since 1983, and a return to net emigration next year, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) forecasts in its latest Quarterly Economic Commentary, published today.
THE credit squeeze tightened yesterday when Bank of Scotland Ireland increased the rates it will charge new borrowers by up to 0.55pc, withdrew its fixed rate homeloan products and said it would no longer pay legal fees on any mortgage products.
8th April 2008, Daft.ie, Ireland's largest property website, today released the latest Daft House Price Report, covering the first three months of 2008. The report shows that asking prices are falling across the country. The most significant drops occurred in the most expensive areas of the country, with asking prices falling by up to 7% in three months in South County Dublin and Wicklow. Nationally over the past three months asking prices decreased 1.2%.
The latest EBS/DKM Affordability Index, published by Irish Property Buyer magazine, shows that affordability for first time buyers continues to improve, and that this trend is set to continue over the coming months and that the average first-time buying couple is better off buying than renting today if they intend to keep their property for more than three years.
A big US interest rate cut and better than expected results from two leading investment banks have bouyed markets and eased fears of global credit crisis that could trigger deep recession.
Getting a foot on the property ladder has become increasingly difficult for first-time buyers. With this 12-step guide, Frank Conway shows would be home owners how it's done.
THE country's most exclusive suburb is to become home to a 15-storey skyscraper after planning permission was granted for a €600m development in the capital yesterday.
One third of the 170,000 new homes added to the Irish market over the past two years have not been sold, according to an analysis of new figures by the Sunday Business Post
Daft.ie, Ireland's largest propety website has released the latest Daft Rental Report. The figures show that the supply of properties available to rent across the country increased by almost fifty percent in the last three months of 2007. This dramatic increase in supply has led to a levelling off in rents, with the average rent nationwide remaining unchanged at €1388.
The worst could be over for the property market. Although it's early days yet to be definitive on the end of the housing slump, there are tentative signs that the property market could be starting to pick up again.
Property consultants CB Richard Ellis today launched their annual Outlook report - a comprehensive research document outlining predictions for all sectors of the Irish property market in 2008.
The Financial Regulator launched a new campaign to encourage consumers to makeover their finances for the New Year. Research carried out on behalf of the Financial Regulator shows that 23% of people said their biggest concern in the New Year was to sort out their finances, compared with 16% who want to get fit and 7% who want to give up smoking.
TWO of the major property players have issued bullish outlooks on 2008's residential market, contrasting starkly with the prevailing mood of doom and gloom and a more tepid bulletin from AIB.
Daft.ie, Ireland's largest property website, today released its latest property market report, a review of 2007. The report confirms that 2007 witnessed a dramatic shift in the housing market. Read More
The European Central Bank held its main interest rates steady today against a background of rising inflation and slowing growth, shortly after the Bank of England did the same. Read More.
THE Irish property market may come under further pressure over the coming months after the European Central Bank yesterday indicated its readiness to raise interest rates further. Read More.
Yesterdays's first policy meeting of the year for the European Central Bank is likely to be the start of a long period of unchanged interest rates, analysts and financial market prices say. Read More.
Construction activity in the Irish economy in December, as measured by the Ulster Bank Purchasing Managers' Index, fell to its lowest level since the series began back in 2000. Read More
There has been a lot of talk about the property market softening in 2007. And indeed, the figures speak for themselves. What is the outlook for this year? Here's what some of the leading property and banking companies think: Read More
All eyes will be on Lisney's auction rooms next Tuesday for the first auction of the season which will see rogue solicitor Michael Lynn's House put under the hammer. Read More
The French are selling up on Ailsebury Road, both the lavish residence and the nearby chancery steeped in rebel history writes Irish Times property editior Orna Mulcahy. Read More
Short term lending markets have shaken off much of the paralysis of last autumn's credit crunch, thanks in part to extraordinary efforts by central banks to restore order within the guts of the global financial network. Read More.
Economists are predicting the ECB will be forced to cut interest rates by up to 0.5% as the Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark rate by 0.75% to prevent the world's biggest economy from going into recession. Read more
Kingscroft Developments has cut prices for many houses and apartments at The Hastings, at Hamlet Lane, by about 10% Continue reading from source: Independent.ie
Hopes for substantially lower mortgage rates in the coming months are set to be dashed, after the counties top banks refused to commit to passing on the benefits of an expected rate cut to borrowers. Read More
