Appreciation and Building Home Equity

What is a Second Mortgage? Home Equity Loans

Are you interested in getting a second mortgage, home equity loan or home equity line of credit? Read on to learn about the pros and cons of this line of credit.

How Does a Home Equity Line of Credit Work?

If you want to make an important purchase but do not currently have the money, you don’t necessari...

Beginner's Guide to Home Equity

Why Home Equity Matters

Home equity—the current value of your home minus your mortgage balance—matters because it helps you build wealth. When you have equity in your home, it’s a resource you can borrow against to improve your property or pay down other high-interest debts. However, it’s also volatile because home values

Six Ways on how to Increase and Build your Home Equity

Home equity is the amount of money built up in your home from the cash investment used as down payment and the increase in real estate prices.

How to use your home equity

Your home can be an excellent source of financial security. But you must take care and caution to ensure you use home equity responsibly.

What Is Home Equity And Why Is It Important?

Equity reveals the portion of the property value that you can rightfully claim as your own.

How Home Equity Affects Financial Aid

Will owning your home cost you financial aid? Read on to find out.

How home equity lenders must beat back online threats

Home equity lenders aren’t just competing with each other, but also with online providers of personal loans. All indications are that the speed, convenience, and generally superior digital experience offered by fintech lenders in the unsecured space is more appealing to consumers. Consumers don’t much care that unsecured personal loans typically carry higher interest rates …

How to decide if a home equity line of credit

Deciding if a HELOC is right for you means asking questions. You’ll find answers below to some of the most common ones, in 10 words or less.

What Is Home Equity and How Does It Work?

You’ll often hear the term equity when it comes to homeownership, but you may not even know what that means even if you already own a home.

3 questions to ask before tapping home equity

It’s been a good summer for home values, and it may spark dreams of how you can put the equity in your home to good use. What is home equity? It’s the difference between the current market value of your home and how much you still owe on your mortgage loan. As the value of …

Borrowing From Home Equity: Questions To Ask First

Do some soul-searching and look at the numbers before you make the big decision.

How to use home equity to fund your retirement

Clearing up the confusion on how to responsibly leverage your equity to help fund retirement.

How to Pay for Home Improvements Without Dipping Into Home Equity

The housing crisis dried up equity, left millions of homeowners underwater and taught millions of others the value of saving.

Hall Financial: Why refinancing can increase your home equity

As a homeowner, you’ve worked hard paying off the mortgage on your house and updating it when you can. Now it’s time for the house to work for you! Low rates mean there’s a bit more equity in your home, which is an opportunity to use that equity to put some money in your pocket or purse.<br>David Hall from Hall Financial explains how you can make your home equity work for you by refinancing your home for a lower rate.

How Do I Calculate How Much Home Equity I Have?

Find out how to calculate the equity in your home, your home equity percentage, and the loan-to-value (LTV) based on the current market price.