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Find out what home equity is and how to use it, plus news, advice and tools on home equity loans and HELOCs.
Borrowing against the equity in your home can be a smart move if you’re careful.
When lenders check your financial situation, these criteria will count the most.
Building equity is a smart financial move, and there are a few ways to do it.
Use these five steps to learn how much equity you have in your home.
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Greg McBride talks about home equity loan rates and lines of credit.
Greg McBride discusses home equity loan rates, and why they’re declining.
Fears of rising rates keeping you up at night? Time to build a bigger emergency fund.
Refinancing a home equity loan to a first mortgage will add a lot more in total interest expense.
Credit card debt may trump a home equity loan for a couple planning a home improvement project.
The biggest home equity lesson of the financial crisis is that your home is not a piggy bank.
A ‘bargain’ remodeling job can turn into a costly headache if you don’t follow these four steps.
Step by step guide to choosing between a home equity loan or a HELOC.
A couple wonders if interest on a HELOC is tax deductible if the loan is used for an LLC.
Using home equity to finance improvement projects makes sense in some situations, but not others.