It is generally accepted that MTR numbers are lower than we would all like them to have been in recent years. It is a complex system with multiple parties involved at various points across a complex process. Icare Housing was established as an Approved Housing Body focused solely on MRT and we have over…
The government has been urged to make the mortgage-to-rent scheme mandatory for all homeowners in long-term arrears in a bid to prevent mass homelessness. Father Peter McVerry, one of the country’s most prominent housing campaigners, said that the scheme could help more than 32,000 people who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments by more…
An organisation that helps people in mortgage arrears is to seek rapid home repossessions in the courts to help keep single parents and children in their homes. The Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation has spent the past decade trying to slow down and discourage courts granting repossession orders to banks and vulture funds. Now it is…
Cutting through the red tape on mortgage-to-rent Revamped scheme to help home-owners in arrears might just work, says Sinead Ryan On the surface of it, the Mortgage-to-Rent (MTR) scheme seemed an ideal solution to the home-owners in arrears crisis; repossession only puts a family out on the street, adding to the homeless problem. Better to…
