Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Tom Browne:
I would absolutely refute that story. That would never have happened, in my view. I'll give you another example of an auction that I attended. In early 2006, when the bank had brought its new policy in place, I attended an auction on a property, which was guiding somewhere in the region of €10 million, in terms of its guide price, and it sold for something in excess of €30-odd million at the time, and I remember coming back to the office and requesting my secretary to get all the lenders into the room because this was, kind a, further justification of the change of policy that we had just introduced, that the market had gone out of control. You know, people were way ... were paying way over the odds based on indicative pricing for assets, and that's the other side of the story where the bank was at in early 2006.
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