PAY OFF MY TRACKER ? Q. I received an inheritance of € 59,000 from my late father’s will. It is all tax free and I have an outstanding mortgage of € 284,000 on a tracker rate. With income of over € 90K between the two of us, we can well afford it despite two young...
As John Paul Getty, the oil billionaire, once observed the only way to become seriously wealthy is to own your own business. Easy if you are entrepreneurial by nature, less easy if you are not. There is, however, one sort of business that can be set up without much...
GUARD YOUR GOOD NAME Q. I had a problem with my last car loan at the start of this year and some payments were missed. I am now applying for a mortgage with my boyfriend and have been told that our lender could turn us down because of those missed payments. Is this...
The Central Bank, which will be reviewing its mortgage guidelines in November, has announced that it will seek evidence of the impact of the measures which it introduced in early 2015. This was stated by the Central Bank’s Deputy Governor Sharon Donnery who said...
Wanting to save money and actually doing it are two very different things. Before you can start putting away money for a rainy day – ideally 3 to 6 months net annual income, you need to make savings in your day-to-day spending. The key to saving is breaking old habits...
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