“Current asking prices suggest that 200,000 households are in negative equity, the majority of 270,000 people who bought between 2005 and 2008. Figures from June show 36,000 mortgages were in arrears of three months or more, with collective arrears of just over half a billion euro. These figures do not account for tens of thousands [...]
Archive for August 19th, 2011
Ireland’s Theatre of Cruelty : dangling ill-defined debt-forgiveness solutions in front of desperate borrowers.
Posted in Banks, IMF, Irish economy, Irish Property, Politics on August 19, 2011 | 96 Comments »
NAMA sells development site in Tunbridge Wells (UK) for GBP 10m
Posted in Developers, NAMA, Non-Irish property on August 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
NAMA is this morning reported to have sold a cinema site in Tunbridge Wells inKent for GBP 10m (€11.5m). The buyer is reported to be a joint venture between global private equity firm The Carlyle Group and London-based development company Bellhouse Joseph. The property had been owned by Rydell Properties Limited (a Howard and Joe [...]