Government again take away power for those in mortgage arrears and give it to the banks by diluting the legal aid given when appealing a bank veto insolvency arrangement. The Government celebrated the Abhaile Scheme only on Monday of this week while in the background were butchering the legal aid...
Just 163 repossessed homes made available for social housing
Banks had offered 2,000 such properties to the Housing Agency under a new scheme More than 2,000 repossessed homes have been offered by banks to the Housing Agency for social housing under a new scheme, but just 163 have been made available to tenants, new figures show. Data provided to The Irish...
Listen: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation Questions Timing Of Central Bank Report On Mortgage Defaulters.
A new paper from the Central Bank has divided opinion on the subject of strategic mortgage defaulters. It found that thousands of homeowners defaulted on their mortgages in the two years after a High Court ruling prevented banks from repossessing homes. But debt campaigner David Hall says the numbers were...