Buyer Beware
So all the while that we were being mesmerised by the shiny baubles of stamp duty reform and mortgage interest relief and blaming the mean old scrooges at the ECB for our woes, it turns out we’re blissfully ignorant to the fleecing we’re getting from unscrupulous auctioneers, mortgage brokers, developers, property management companies and everyone else and his mother with a finger in the pie of the Irish property market.
I can’t believe that anyone can be surprised at the revelations in last night’s Prime Time programme about dodgy carry-on in the property market. This is dogs in the street stuff. And the feigned shock of the various representative organisations is laughable.
Still, what can we expect from a government that has consistently put vested interests ahead of the good of society and the citizen, coupled with a citizenry endowed with more money (read credit lines) than sense?
A vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for the guests in the tent at the Galway Races.
Mark Waters marked time at 1:32 pm on December 12th, 2006 .
