Lender to quit mortgage business as banks benefit from lower funding costs
Existing loan offers will be honoured for home buyers closing a purchase
The mortgage market has suffered a blow after non-bank lender said it will stop issuing residential home loans.
Finance Ireland, which was founded and is run by Billy Kane, a former CEO of Irish Permanent and a director of Irish Life & Permanent PLC, has previously flagged its disadvantage relative to the main banks.
Banks finance their mortgage lending from cheap deposits, but non-bank lenders are forced to borrow in the wholesale money markets, making their core input more expensive when prevailing interest rates are high.
They sure are/were!Their rates are nuts.
Can't see any.Was there a good reason to go with them over any one else?
Only reason I can see is that you have a better chance with imperfect credit, so could have been worth getting a mortgage with them and transferring once your credit record had improvedTheir rates are nuts. Was there a good reason to go with them over any one else?
Qualifying Criteria
The Progress Plus mortgage allows for a little more flexibility around things like previous credit issues, self-employed income assessment, refinancing and buying a buy-to-let property for example.
Previous arrears on unsecured loans must be more than 6 months ago and on secured loans more than 4 years ago.
Their rates were competitive a few years ago when ECB interest rates were low.Their rates are nuts. Was there a good reason to go with them over any one else?
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