New Beginning secures over €200m for new housing fund

Debt advisory group partners with investment firm RoundShield Partners again

Irish Social Housing Fund secures €30m from AIB to buy 100 homes

Fund established by New Beginning and RoundShield plans to acquire properties

Concerns raised over insolvency practice’s ‘business model’

Report criticises firm paid €330,000-plus under State distressed borrowers’ scheme

David Hall: Pugnacious, hyperactive defender of underdog

Energy of Console’s interim chief executive contrasts with approach of State agencies

‘Dramatic’ drop in number of one-off houses being built

Multi-unit developments rise significantly in the past two years, new figures show

AIB offering tracker redress, says IMHO

Number of cases involving AIB customers who believe they should have been offered trackers when they came off their fixed rates in years up to 2011

Fee income doubles at debt advice service

New Beginning Advisors’ total income last year was €707,991, as compared with €345,005 a year earlier

First-time buyers not to blame for previous bubble - Honohan

Central Bank governor says new mortgage rules to come into effect in days

Mortgage group apologises for data breach involving over 1,000 customers

New Beginning emailed information, including household details, to commercial partner in Malta

Just over 100 insolvency deals done in three months

Average write-down on secured debt is 17 per cent, agency says

‘Computers not people’ decide how banks approach arrears

Finance Committee hears concern over inconsistencies in handling of distressed mortgages

Debt resolution

Country’s first debt settlement arrangement approved by creditors in Dublin today

Debtor was given ‘substantial’ write-down and debts will be settled over five years

Hundreds of new debt arrangements ‘in the pipeline’, Insolvency Service of Ireland says

‘Avalanche’ of bankruptcy cases expected once legislation to cut term commences