Thousands of mortgage payers still haven’t received the promised increase in mortgage interest relief that was announced in Budget 2012. (Also known as TRS) See details of TRS Budget 2012 Changes The higher 30% interest relief was promised for people who bought their first home between 2004 and 2008. It is now May – and […]
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PTSB Reduce Variable Rates for New Customers
PTSB have lowered the rate on their variable rate mortgage from 4.6% to 3.69%. The new lower rate is only available to home buyers looking for a mortgage which is less than 80% than the value of the house. But the PTSB rate for mortgages with an LTV over 80% have risen from 4.6% to […]
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Northern Rock Ireland to be Sold to PTSB
Permanent TSB has entered into an agreement to take over the accounts of Northern Rock Ireland (NRI) Northern Rock Ireland savings accounts are currently about €650 million – representing less than 5pc of Northern Rock’s total retail deposits . The sale to Permanent TSBb is expected to be completed by the end of the year […]
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PTSB 10% Bonus on Tracker Repayments
PTSB are offering a 10% bonus for anyone paying a lump sum of more than €5000 off their tracker mortgage. Ie. – If you pay €5000 – they will knock €5500 off the balance of your mortgage. Lump sums have to be in multiples of €5k. You can only pay up to a maximum of […]
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Irish Mortgage Rates To Rise Again
Earlier this week EBS announced that it’s variable mortgage rates would rise by 0.6% to 3.83% from August 1st. Now PTSB has said that it is also to increase its standard variable rate by 0.5 per cent to 4.19 per cent from August 3rd 2010. PTSB say that about 80,000 customers will be affected by […]
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