Heavy hitting buyers from abroad are taking us on and buying heavily discounted Irish loan books. Surveyor Margaret Kelleher, a director at Lisney Cork, looks at what’s been going on in the commercial loan market

A HOUSE jointly owned by a man who is now homeless and receiving treatment for alcohol addiction was repossessed by a bank in the High Court yesterday.

AN ELDERLY father appeared before the High Court yesterday to plead for more time to allow his daughter, who is going through a marriage break-up, to make mortgage repayments to avoid having her house repossessed.

IT is never good to cry in front of your children, so it is just as well the woman’s toddler son was outside with his dad when the tears started to flow.