How to negotiate the mortgage maze to get to your first home

With lenders reporting a surge in mortgage demand, there several things that prospective applicants should and shouldn’t do

Would-be home buyers face a lot of challenges, not least skyrocketing rents that make it harder to save and tight housing supply that makes it more difficult to find a property.

Yet there’s a growing demand for mortgages, a trend that is reflective, perhaps, of a changing economy.

According to figures from Banking & Payments Federation Ireland, almost 5,250 first-time buyer mortgages were drawn down in the last three months of 2017, an ...