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Take the hassle out of managing your rental property by letting West Coast Property Management do the heavy lifting for you.

With the unemployment rate in Ireland currently sitting at five per cent, down 10 per cent from 2011, competition to attract and retain employees is at an all-time high.

Did you acquire a residential investment property that was vacant for a period of at least 12 months before it was first let? You may be able to claim a tax deduction for pre-letting expenses against rental income in the first year.

Rooney's currently has two superb investment properties. No 1 Cross Street is a city centre investment property let on a new long term lease to an excellent restaurant covenant. The tenant, Freshii, is unaffected by the sale and enjoys a long term lease from 2017.

Home for Life - the state-backed mortgage to rent finance scheme - has the potential to help a number of the 578 cases in Mayo reported to have over 720 days of mortgage arrears, according to the company's CEO. At the Housing Strategic Policy Committee of Mayo County Council this week, Home for Life's chief executive officer, Paul Cunningham, suggested that these arrears cases, which the Central Bank's Long-Term Mortgage Arrears in Ireland Report note as being 'in serious mortgage arrears', could be helped by the scheme.

Buying your first home in Ireland can seem like a mountain to climb. Just reading the Irish news would be enough to put off even the most determined of Irish buyers.

Brokers Ireland has appealed to politicians to consider very carefully the No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019 currently going through the Oireachtas on the basis that it is likely to negatively impact mortgage holders in terms of interest rates and stymie badly needed competition in the banking sector.

Brokers Ireland has called on Minister for State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for insurance, Michael D’Arcy TD, to speed up plans to set up a new Garda motor insurance unit.

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Commenting on recent Central Bank figures indicating a growth in net lending for mortgages, Brokers Ireland said such figures indicate the state of banking rather than charting what is actually happening with consumers.