The main banks here say they will all be passing today’s ECB interest rate hike on to tracker mortgage customers, but variable and fixed rate borrowers will be spared for now. There are around 200,000 tracker mortgages remaining in the country, while there are 130,000 people whose loans are on variable rates. In a statement, Bank of Ireland said its tracker rates will increase by the 0.5% announced by the ECB at lunchtime. “For most customers, this […]
THE European Central Bank announced another hike in its key interest rates in a move that will pile more pain on those with trackers and variable rates. The move is expected to hit those whose mortgages have been sold to vulture funds hardest as they are stuck on variable rates that are the highest in the country. The main refinancing rate of the European Central Bank (ECB), which is directly linked to the interest rate […]
House prices could fall 12pc by the end of the decade if the Government was to meet its housing target and build 35,000 homes a year. To achieve it would require more public money, higher numbers of foreign construction workers and more domestic workers moving from commercial to residential projects, a report by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) said. “The issue is we do need to increase and find these workers,” said ESRI […]
