Developers need more funding options to meet housing demand

Start Mortgages, the loan-servicing company owned by US private-equity giant Lone Star, has completed the transfer of €2 billion of mortgages that had been on its books to rival Mars Capital Ireland, after deciding late last year to quit the market. The deal, which first emerged last November, has seen

Gareth Graham’s experience of the fallout from the last financial crisis sowed the seeds for the former property player’s new venture, Belfast Commercial Funding (BCF), which has stepped into a gap left by banks’ caution at lending to small businesses. In 2012, the Dublin-based National Asset Management Agency (Nama) took control of

UK fintech Revolut is targeting a valuation exceeding $40 billion (€37 billion) in a share sale that would cement its status as Europe’s most valuable start-up, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. The SoftBank-backed company is working with Morgan Stanley to sell about $500 million worth of existing shares,

Irish-founded fintech Stripe is understood to be weighing up the possibility of locating its new Dublin headquarter office at Wilton Park, the 53,885sq m (580,000sq ft) office campus being developed by Irish property company, Iput, at Wilton Place in Dublin 2. Since the payments platform resumed its search for new

Construction activity expanded in March for the first time in nine months, the latest index for the sector from BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland indicates. The index reading of 51.6 was the first to exceed the 50 no-change mark since June 2023, with the expansion following eight consecutive months of