Wow!
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
osborne's always say the UK would do it "if everyone else would".... time to put your money where your mouth is george
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Irony of ironies, ireland opt out ffs
I imagine our position as tax refuge of the eu had a bearing on that call, but i mean
― standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/can-irelands-celtic-tiger-roar-again/2013/08/16/1462304c-0460-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story_1.html
this is a fairly simplistic and boneheaded piece, typically broad in its strokes and (idk enough about the washington post but) typical enough in the international (read: US) outlook i've read on the irish crash/economy/recovery.
whitewashes bank bailout, or at least pooh-poohs the criticisms of it (tbf all coverage here does this also)
lionizes entrepreneurial activity/bemoans taxation on would-be millionaires while decrying public sectors and welfare/health spends
oversimplifies the boom/bust cycle and social trends such as educated youth/emigration vs mammy-reared irish simpleton forelock-tugging trad irish workers.
tbh, idk, i learned more about teh washington post than i did about the current position of the irish economy, the causes of the crash or the prospects for recovery
otm re: capital tied up in construction and bad debt tho- but i coulda told you that. if my dog could bark in english he'd a told you that (he's a gailgeoir, thanks for asking)
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Monday, 26 August 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.daft.ie/searchsale.daft?id=734568
is it time to start saving for a deposit yet? wanna get on the boom good and early this time ffs
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
idk
i know one of the people who runs those auctions
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
can
u
hook
me
up
srsly
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
you want to live in galway?
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
four bed detached in athenry is good time living imo
tell them preference is detached 3-4 bed near westport, but yeah galway (outside the city obv, along the M6 a bonus) or any of the leafier suburbs of dublin would all be acceptable
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
also you know auctions are for cash buyers?
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
showing up with mortgage approved docs is acceptable iirc?
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
yeah it says you have to complete within four weeks, i think a week or ten days is the standard practice here
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
this'd do too, with a bit of work http://www.allsopspace.ie/auction/lot/4777
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
assuming you could get a survey and approval (not the easiest with some decrepit if picturesque old house) then that's probably a couple grand at least before some spiv outbids you
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
unless things are radically different in ireland now, these things are mostly for developers and chancers, the proportion of homebuyers at auctions is small
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
ilx fundraising effort to cover purchase, refurbishment, guaranteed lodging for worldfap 2017 and two weeks a year for life to any poster contributing more than idk 5k
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
xp
with the coming (expected) increase in repossessions after personal insolvency legislation changes, and given that these auctions enjoy a very high profile, idk
could become a thing for a few years amongst homebuyers, once-off investors, what-have-you. rent vs the type of mortgage outlay required for these makes in inevitable i think.
probably as straight a normalisation method as any maybe.
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
http://www.allsopspace.ie/auction/lot/4930
that rent would cover a good two bedroom flat in an inner london suburb, no wonder the rentiers are fleeing at those yields
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
straffan v much stockbroker belt equivalent tbf
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link