Families lose homes in record 91 hearings

A RECORD number of repossession cases were listed in the High Court yesterday where some eight family homes were given over to banks and lenders.

A total of 91 cases were listed for hearing, a record number and sign of the spiralling numbers of housing debt problems coming before the courts.

The packed courtroom heard in one case how a mother and daughter were unable to hold onto the family home over a debt of €85,000 to lender Start Mortgages.