Our figures for August this year show that over 200 Irish Companies failed as a result of being insolvent. In total,

205 Companies went out of business.

This was the second highest number of company insolvencies in 2011 (behind April which had 216) and was up 68% on August 2010's figure of 122 Company insolvencies.

Further research in to these companies highlighted that 69 of them (34%) had an "unsatisfied mortgage" registered against them. This indicates a loan that the company had previously taken out from a bank and, as of the date of their insolvency, had not repaid.

In this case, the most the banks will expect to receive is partial payment on the mortgage amount that they originally approved.

As we predicted in mid-August, Company Liquidations reached record levels for the year. Liquidators were appointed to 234 Irish Companies. This is the highest monthly total we've seen for liquidator appointments since December 2009.

In fact, if we review liquidator appointment figures over the past five years (Jan 2007 - present) we'll see that August '11 is third highest in terms of Liquidator appointments. It was behind December '09 (276 liquidator appointments)

and April '09 (241 liquidator appointments).

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