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Arrears

Central Bank

Customer service 'not yet where it needs to be' for borrowers facing early arrears on mortgages

24 Apr 2024

4.1k

Environment committee

Around a quarter of households and close to a third of businesses in arrears on their gas bills

Updated 15 Nov 2023

8.4k

Mortgage Arrears

Scheme to support families in mortgage arrears extended again for four years

26 Jul 2023

7.0k

Housing

Revised mortgage-to-rent scheme to help more people in arrears to stay in their homes

24 Jan 2022

13.2k

Arrears

Protection for renters in financial difficulty due to Covid-19 extended to 12 July

9 Mar 2021

16.4k

covid19

Almost 4,000 mortgage accounts fell into arrears in Q1 of this year, figures from the Central Bank show

23 Jun 2020

12.8k

Sold

Ulster Bank sells portfolio of 3,175 mortgages to Pepper

8 Oct 2019

32.8k

Cabot Financial

Taoiseach asks for details about letters sent to mortgage-holders demanding full payment of arrears within 30 days

21 May 2019

33.4k

Arrears

Experts say 'vulture friendly' commentary from government is 'dangerous'

19 Apr 2019

16.0k

Vulture funds

Concerns over letters sent to mortgage-holders demanding full payment of arrears within 30 days

13 Apr 2019

117k

110

Repossessions

Cabinet to consider Bill to help borrowers in mortgage arrears

26 Feb 2019

11.0k

Abhaile

State will no longer automatically pay for barristers in personal insolvency cases

2 Feb 2019

25.4k

Abhaile

Government scheme to help families in mortgage distress 'fails 70% who turn to it'

28 Jan 2019

15.6k

dragging their heels

'History will judge this': Experts see little change in bank culture after scandals and protests

13 Jan 2019

12.3k

fair mortgage bill

'It's your job to call the vulture funds out': High Court Master pens letter to Micheál Martin

11 Jan 2019

57.5k

sell off

Varadkar says he's reluctant to use the term 'vulture fund' to describe firms that have bought up Irish mortgages

28 Dec 2018

25.8k

114

Security

Union says KBC staff 'extremely upset and stressed' by recent incidents

23 Dec 2018

25.9k

Social Housing

The myth of the free council house: 'We're not just handing them over, that would be crazy'

22 Dec 2018

104k

Vulture funds

Almost 7,000 loans in arrears held by 'unregulated loan owners'

20 Dec 2018

22.5k

Great Irish Sell Off

No vulture fund or bank has ever been sanctioned for breaching the code of conduct

24 Nov 2018

12.6k

FactCheck

FactCheck: Are there really 20,000 possession cases before the courts?

24 Nov 2018

17.9k

FactCheck

FactCheck: Has the number of cases taken by banks over arrears halved in two years?

17 Nov 2018

11.5k

Concrete

Mica scandal: Family living in 'falling down house' finds out mortgage has been sold to vulture fund

29 Oct 2018

59.3k

Arrears

Call for householders to be given free legal aid to address 'power imbalance' during reposessions

11 Sep 2018

8.9k

Arrears

Ulster Bank sold mortgages to vulture fund despite offer to buy loans for mortgage to rent

31 Aug 2018

24.4k

sell off

'Mary' is recovering from cancer and her mortgage - in €29k arrears - has been sold to a vulture fund

18 Aug 2018

44.2k

Arrears

Ulster Bank to sell 5,200 'non-performing' mortgages to vulture fund

13 Aug 2018

22.1k

135

Repossessions

How many mortgage holders were taken to the High Court by banks so far this year?

29 Jul 2018

31.5k

Housing Crisis

'Say no to vulture funds': Applause breaks out as TD calls for support for new law aimed at keeping people in their homes

10 Jul 2018

24.0k

Debt

Storm Emma caused higher levels of mortgage arrears as customers missed in-branch payments

20 Jun 2018

15.6k

Arrears

'One thousand days like this': High Court Master questions banks on their 'pressing need' to evict people

8 Jun 2018

34.8k

146

Mortgage Arrears

'This is a human crisis': David Hall believes 17,000 families will have homes repossessed

17 May 2018

14.8k

vultures

Even PTSB customers who are meeting revised loan terms will have mortgages sold to vulture funds

22 Mar 2018

21.1k

101

Vulture funds

PTSB chief refuses to appear before Finance Committee next week over loan sale

24 Feb 2018

17.1k

vulture fears

Mortgages sell-off will disrupt already-volatile housing market, charities warn

23 Feb 2018

27.5k

217

Mortgage Arrears

'They're for the chop': High Court Master says 'wave of repossessions' on the horizon

21 Feb 2018

43.0k

117

New Laws

High Court Master writes new legislation to help keep people in their homes

20 Feb 2018

14.9k

Arrears

'There is a solution for everybody': Debtors urged not to put their heads in the sand in 2018

25 Dec 2017

7.3k

The Daily Poll

Poll: Should the State relax free legal aid rules to cover more arrears cases?

24 Dec 2017

9.9k

Abhaile

High Court Master says government's legal advice scheme is 'a scam'

9 Dec 2017

19.9k

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