Thinking about investing some hard-earned cash in property or shares? You need to have a basic understanding of yield, in that case. Yield is a future looking measure of the income you can expect from a given investment. Yield is expressed as an annual percentage based on the initial investment. Buy to let investment For … Read more
When a tenant is in difficulty and arrears or rent have arisen with his lease it is sometimes the smartest move for the tenant to surrender the lease, and for the landlord to accept the surrender. This involves the tenant handing back the lease and the premises to the landlord on the basis that he … Read more
Are you a small business owner with a leased premises? Have you had difficulties paying rent as a result of Covid 19? Are you entitled to stop, even temporarily, paying rent? The High Court addressed this question recently in a case involving the Klaw restaurant in Temple Bar. The landlord had demanded vacant possession of … Read more
Have you heard of Blockchain? It may have come across your radar in the last five years or so. I did not pay much attention to it at first because I associated it with Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, speculation and high risk pump and dump schemes which would inevitably lead to catastrophic losses for those who did … Read more
The liquidator of a Dublin company, with debts of over €600,000, has been refused access by the High Court to the Gmail account of the company. The company had one director and shareholder, Mr Jawad Khan, who told the liquidator that all the business of the company was conducted through this free Gmail account. He … Read more