Teacher agrees deal over €18k apartment debt

An Irish schoolteacher living on the Costa del Sol while renting out her Dublin apartment has made a deal with her bank over an arrears debt on her mortgage, the Circuit Civil Court heard yesterday.

Judge Jacqueline Linnane was told Audrey Spearing, of Guadalmina, San Pedro, Malaga, had been living in Spain for the last six years and renting out her apartment at 36 Adamstown Avenue, Dublin, for €800 a month.

Barrister Tomas Keys, counsel for Permanent TSB, told the court that since last October, when the bank had sought possession of the apartment on foot of €18,000 mortgage arrears, Ms Spearing had significant engagement with the bank.