Mortgage news & insights

The Mortgage Market - What to Expect in 2025 2024 saw lots of change in the mortgage market with reduced rates, new lenders and huge demand seeing mortgage approval figures at a record high. What can we expect in 2025? Interest rates – After two years of upward...

Applying for a mortgage in 2025 - Here's what you need to know - The Irish mortgage market is constantly changing. Over the past year, we’ve seen mortgage rates climb and then start to fall, alongside the arrival of two new lenders, bringing the total number of...

Greening your home: Is it worth it? As part of the Governments Climate Action Policy, the National Residential Retrofit Plan aims to achieve the equivalent of 500,000 homes retrofitted to a Building Energy Rating of B2 by end-2030. To support this plan there are...

What is the Help to Buy Scheme? The Help to Buy scheme has supported over 50,000 homeowners in buying a new build home or building a home. Budget 2025 extended the scheme to 2029 but the terms of the scheme remain the same - The help to buy scheme is available to...

It is always really difficult to predict interest rate movements, we have seen how the unexpected (Covid and Wars) can hugely impact interest rates but after two years of rate increases through 2022 and 2023, 2024 brought some welcome rate reductions. So what's next...

Turning Your First Home Into Your Dream Home: Financing Home Renovations  Whether you’ve just purchased your first home or are actively house-hunting, chances are you’ve noticed a trend: finding the perfect, move-in-ready home is no easy feat. 66% of first-time buyers...