Developers are bluffing when they say lower prices would undermine viability of house building
Government should desist from fanning the flames of demand with subsidies such as Help to Buy and the First Home Scheme
Central Bank of Ireland
Oil prices expected to jump after US attacks on Iran
Hits on nuclear sites injects fresh uncertainty into already anxious global economy
Ireland needs to ditch empty promises and economic fairy tales and start confronting reality
Official documents seem to exist in some kind of parallel universe, with no expectation that targets can be met
The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Derville Rowland, Amla
Irish woman was appointed as an executive board member to the new EU agency during May
US tariffs could punch €18bn hole in public finances, Central Bank warns
Regulator highlights potential risk to State’s tax base from extended decline in global trade
Rent pressure zone changes will be painful for tenants, Central Bank warns
US tariffs threaten to punch €18bn hole in public finances in extreme scenario
Business lender Capitalflow secures retail credit licence to expand offering
Move will allow lender’s offering to include car finance and buy-to-let mortgages
Number of mortgages in three-month arrears lowest since 2009
Irish home mortgages valued at €104 billion in March with 40,332 behind on their payments
Irish households save €8.2 billion in first quarter
Households spent €38 billion on goods and services in the first three months of the year
Institutional investment in Irish property down 80%, Central Bank says
Regulator’s governor, Gabriel Makhlouf, says Ireland is particularly exposed to recent trade tensions
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Analysts ring alarm bells over private credit risks
Reports underscore regulatory concerns over opacity of non-bank lending globally
Irish home loans increase by €245 million in April
Household deposits recorded a net flow of more than €1.7 billion in the month
Average mortgage approval value hit new record of €319k in April
Home loans valued at €1.5bn approved in April, says BPFI
Like grief, banking inquiries have five stages and closure is never guaranteed
Irish Nationwide inquiry showcased the problem with such probes in Ireland
ESRI to warn Government of no major uptick in housing supply this year or next
Planning a major constraint on the housing system
Fifteen years, €24.3m and 1,384 pages later, was the Irish Nationwide inquiry really worth it?
Long running inquiry announced findings this week
Government must ‘anchor’ spending as Ireland faces potential permanent economic hit from tariffs, official says
Central Bank official Vasileios Madouros says shifts in US trade policy have potential to permanently hit Irish economic output
‘Repulsive’; ‘obscene’; ‘genocide’: Dáil voices rise in unison over Israel’s slaughter in Gaza
Sinn Féin leader gets short shrift from Taoiseach in row over Central Bank’s Israeli war bonds issues
Ciara Kelleher on her two Custom House Capital fraud trials: ‘The powers that be refused to listen to the truth’
Former employee was accused of conspiring to defraud customers and faced two trials that ended with hung juries before DPP dropped charges
Banks obliged to retain ATMs under legislation passed by Seanad
Bill introduced after concerns that ATMs being removed following decline in cash usage
Goldman Sachs reported to be in talks to launch retail bank in Ireland
US giant weighing move into this country
US-China tariff truce will lessen shock but won’t stop prices rising, Fed governor warns
Adriana Kugler says she still expects to see higher prices and slower growth
Why do Irish people continue to make the same mistakes with their savings?
The annual growth rate of bank savings has more than doubled from pre-Covid levels
Credit union lending up 12%, buoyed by mortgages and easing restrictions
Personal loans continue to make up majority of lending
ESRI appoints Prof Martina Lawless as new director
Martina Lawless worked as a research economist with the Central Bank for ten years before joining the ESRI in 2015
Pepper says it hasn’t seen arrears spike that S&P reported among ‘mortgage prisoners’
S&P said in a report last week that 25.7 per cent of Irish reperforming loans held in residential mortgage-backed securities deals were behind in repayments at the end of December
Former bonds trader targets gaps in the Irish mortgage market
Núa Money co-founder Fergal O’Leary says there is an opportunity for more players to come into the Irish mortgage market and take market share from the banks
Irish mortgage rates continue to fall but remain higher than EU average
New mortgage lending up 22% in February, says Central Bank
Credit union mortgages jump more than 40% by value as sector eyes new lending rules
Central Bank of Ireland has proposed lifting financial crisis-era limits on credit union lending to €8.6bn from current €2.9bn
Waystone Fund Management fine confirmed by High Court
Fund manager failed to response adquately to red flags and conflicts of interest, court told
Central Bank commission discussed concerns over its role in approving Israeli bonds documents
Commission agreed to issue responses reflecting correspondence previously sent to Oireachtas finance committee
More than 950 Irish exporters face Trump tariffs
Seen & Heard: Flatley and McGregor, housing bottlenecks, and Fine Gael support slips
The Uninsurables: One in 20 Irish houses struggles to get flood insurance
We’ve been lucky so far but ‘only a matter of time before a 3m storm surge’ hits Ireland
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