{"id":428149,"date":"2026-05-02T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428149\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:00:26","slug":"mortgage-lender-to-allow-first-time-buyers-borrow-up-to-five-times-their-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428149\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage lender to allow first-time buyers borrow up to five times their income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Taoiseach expresses concern over move by lender N\u00faaChief commercial officer says move is not a return to Celtic Tiger-era practice\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777698026_207_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lender to allow first-time buyers borrow up to five times income  <\/p>\n<p>Charlie Weston and Senan Molony<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">First-time buyers will be able to borrow up to five times their income for the first time since the financial crash in an initiative from mortgage lender N\u00faa Money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">N\u00faa denied this would be a return to Celtic Tiger-era lending standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Taoiseach expresses concern over move by lender N\u00faaChief commercial officer says move is not a return to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2334,7863,72,20927,3361,2606,61,60,3362,8649],"class_list":["post-428149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-bank-of-ireland","tag-business","tag-central-bank-of-ireland","tag-charlie-weston","tag-ecb","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-money-experts","tag-property-mortgages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}