Bank started legal proceedings against 400 mortgage holders without first issuing letters

Lender argues rate would have been prohibitively high in any event

Explainer: AIB has to set aside a further €300m for expected compensation claims

Food scares, Brexit fears, rising costs, and how to cut a pineapple

Central Bank figures show growth in mortgage lending driven by fixed-rate mortgages

Central Bank report this week said 99 families lost their homes as a result of being denied a low-cost mortgage rate by their lender post the crash

Lender insists every effort made to engage with borrowers before deciding to sell loans

Brendan Burgess says deals should be struck to help borrowers clear mortgage arrears

Irish firm comes up with plan to deal with 28,000 mortgages in long-term arrears

Arizun launches sale-and-leaseback scheme for people who don’t qualify for State support

Ireland has average mortgage rate of 3.04% compared to EU average of 1.79%

Lack of evictions forces banks to pass on costs to performing loans, consumer advocate says

Project Glas mortgages and restructured loan sale may make PTSB a takeover target

The answer is yes, but if you are faced with a penalty, the decision on whether or not you switch to a lower cost product will depend on how much you will save by doing so

More than half of the portfolio includes buy-to-lets with average arrears of €32,000

Paying through the nose for your mortgage? Read this before deciding what to do about it

Business Week: also in the news were warnings on the economy and property

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Brendan Burgess on banks, houses and vulture funds

The Pat Kenny Show imagines the nation not as it could be, but as it is, an easily goaded, roiling mess

Government plans to price sale of up to 28.8 per cent stake in AIB this week

Financial institution increases new mortgage lending by 61 per cent in first quarter

Sector has been agitating for some time to be allowed to expand lending for home loans

With interest rates so low and rents so high, buying seems best. But is it in the long run?

Some 42% of prospective homebuyers believe they need to borrow from family for deposit

Irish banks earn second highest margins on new mortgage lending in euro zone, ECB figures show

Analysis: Anger in the air as bank accused of ‘trickery’ and ‘fleecing’ customers

AIB handing over cheque for €1.87bn to State a nicely timed bounty for Government

Bank says it has already paid €3bn to the Government in various fees

Time will tell if the Government was right to reduce the term to just one year. All we can say for sure is there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the bankruptcy conundrum

Just 712 switches have been transacted so far this year despite six-figure savings to be made

Dublin Economics Workshop hears that cases before Irish courts move slowly

Figures show average variable rates in Ireland remain way out-of-kilter with euro area

SVR campaign seeks 3% cap and will consider running candidates

Shareholders were even allowed to go up to interact with Richard Pym and David Duffy

Chairman Alan Cook takes some heavy blows from irate investors

Irish mortgage rates continue to rise as Central Bank’s statistics are disputed

Bank’s Ballsbridge AGM a much more sedate affair this time round

Analysis: Richie Boucher’s salary and mortgage arrears the key issues of complaint