This segment of Making Cents, we're sitting down with local Northern Michigan REALTOR Jaimie Fellows-Garno and breaking down ...

You can use home equity to pay off high-interest debt or improve your home, but it’s important to understand the risks.

Finance of America partners with Better to offer HELOCs and reverse mortgages, enhancing access to home equity for those ages ...

Two thirds of those buying homes through the Government’s shared equity scheme are having to use a second State scheme to ...

We start the week with our regular careers feature - this time, we find out what it's really like to be a private ...

Olivia Herman left Boston’s crushing rents for Philadelphia, where persistence and paperwork turned her into a homeowner.

How does a home equity loan work? First, it’s important to understand that the term home equity loan is simply a catchall for the different ways the equity in your home can be used to access cash. The ...

The housing market remains unaffordable for many, particularly Gen Z. High rent and student loan debt has made it hard for ...

Home equity loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) allow homeowners to tap into the value of their homes. A home equity loan is a fixed-rate, lump-sum loan that allows homeowners to borrow up ...

If you need to borrow a large amount of money and don't want to deal with the headache of a product that has a variable interest rate, a home equity loan could make sense for you. And, now that the ...

Caroline Basile is Forbes Advisor’s student loans and mortgages deputy editor. With experience in both the mortgage industry and as a journalist, she was previously an editor with HousingWire, where ...

For many retirees, the home they’ve lived in for decades isn’t just a place to live. It’s the single largest asset in their financial portfolio. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF), households ...