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(Click to enlarge – extract of new property added in the second edition of NAMA’s Enforcement List published today) Sooner than expected, NAMA has this afternoon published its second so-called “Enforcement List” – real estate properties subject to NAMA loans to which receivers have been appointed. The list is available as a non-searchable PDF here – [...]

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You really have to hand it to institutions in this country. Last week RTE unmasked what it claimed was a Garda informant – it gave his name, his age and his address. And yesterday RTE reported that a prisoner had absconded from the Mid-Western Regional hospital. Did RTE bother to reveal the prisoner’s name, description [...]

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We might have to wait for another next week to ten days before NAMA issues its second edition of its famous “enforcement list” – properties to which it has appointed receivers and which are potentially up for sale. Of course the list is only of property to which NAMA has appointed receivers, and there will [...]

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London’s Evening Standard is reporting that NAMA is selling a partly complete 27-storey mixed used development in Hackney, east London that was formerly part of John McCabe’s empire. The property is at 159 City Road, London EC1 V 1JH (pictured here on McCabe UK’s website and here at Skyscraper News which carries the planning and [...]

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This morning has seen the publication of the fifth CSO residential property price indices forIreland. The inaugural series was published by the CSO on 13th May 2011 and covered the period from January 2005 to March 2011. This morning’s release covers the month of July 2011. Here’s the summary showing the index at its peak, [...]

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This morning, the Financial Regulator Matthew Elderfield has finally released data on mortgage arrears, repossessions and restructured mortgages for the second quarter of 2011; the press release is here, the statistics are here. The data paints a disturbing picture of the deteriorating state of mortgage arrears. Total mortgages in arrears for more than 90 days [...]

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Take a look at the above table which compares residential mortgages in Ireland and the UK. Arrears over 90 days in the UK are less than one third the level ofIreland, and yet the repossession rate in the UK is nearly six times that of Ireland. What an incredible difference between two neighbouring countries whose [...]

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As campaigns go, you have to admire the chutzpah and clarity of the one illustrated above. The photograph shows a banner unveiled today above Korky’s shoe-shop in Grafton Street in Dublin, a couple of hundred metres from Government buildings. The subject of the banner is one of the most vexed issues in Irish commercial property [...]

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Developer Robert Butler’s 16,500 sq ft mansion in the grounds of Adare Manor, Limerick is up for sale through Sherry Fitzgerald for €2.9m (just €175 psf, the advertisement on DAFT.ie is here). Known as “Winterwood” the house is set on its own plot of 2.8 acres within the wider 840-acre hotel and golf resort; it [...]

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“There has been some comment that the consequence of this objective is that NAMA, having recovered its outlay, will then absolve borrowers of their further obligations. This is absolutely not the case. Borrowers, as both I and NAMA’s CEO Brendan McDonagh have already said on a number of occasions, will continue to be liable for [...]

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