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The Mortgage Market – What to Expect in 2025

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...

Your 2025 Mortgage Guide: What Every Applicant Needs to Know

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...

How to Finance Green Home Improvements

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 and How do I Apply?

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...

Mortgage Interest Rates – What to Expect in 2025

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...

How to Finance Home Renovations – Turning your first home into your forever home

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...
5 Top Tips for Mortgage Switching

5 Top Tips for Mortgage Switching

As a follow on from our interview with Claire Byrne, we share some information on mortgage switching and highlight the importance of reviewing your mortgage rate.

Your property search – where to start

Your property search – where to start

House hunting can be frustrating, and sometimes disappointing but you don’t need to go it alone. Here our Home Buyer Helper team outline a few basic tips to help you set yourself up for a better house hunting experience.

Homeowners urged to act now to avoid mortgage repayment hikes

Homeowners urged to act now to avoid mortgage repayment hikes

We highlight the significant savings that can be made by switching your mortgage and also look at whether those on short term fixed rates should look to break out of their fixed rate and lock into a longer term fixed rate in anticipation of expected rate increases.

First Home (Shared Equity) Scheme  – what we know?

First Home (Shared Equity) Scheme  – what we know?

The scheme is designed to support home ownership by bridging the gap between what an eligible first time buyer can secure as mortgage approval under Central Bank loan to income rules plus their deposit versus the purchase price of the new build property they are hoping to purchase.

10 ways to save money

10 ways to save money

There’s quite a stretch until the next pay day, so here’s a few cost-cutting tips.

Saving tips

Saving tips

Doddl Managing Director, Martina Hennessy has outlined two key steps for homeowners to take in 2022 to combat rising bills and living expenses and save mega bucks.

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