Home equity loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) allow homeowners to tap into the value of their homes. A home ...

Equity stripping reduces property equity to deter creditors or facilitate predatory lending. Understand the process and ...

Americans with mortgages hold a record $17.8 trillion in home equity, according to updated ICE Mortgage Monitor data — and with the Fed's second rate cut of 2025 just behind us, now might be the time ...

Rapid home price appreciation and low inventory mean American homeowners are sitting on substantial home equity. In the second quarter of 2025, mortgage holders carried $11.5 trillion in "tappable" ...

Equity financing involves selling company shares to raise capital. Investors gain ownership and potential profits, but also risk losing money. Funds are often used for growth, research and development ...

Refinancing can be a valuable way for homeowners to borrow home equity, but it should be avoided in 2026. Here's why.

The return on equity and its more expansive variant, the return on invested capital, measure what a company is making on the capital it has invested in business, and is a measure of business quality.

When rates hit those lows in 2023, demand for home equity borrowing picked up amid rising homeowner equity, growing household debt and strong renovation activity fueled by the lock-in effect of high ...

Katherine Watt is a former CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking. She previously wrote about personal finance for NextAdvisor. Based in New York, Katherine graduated summa ...

Home equity loan interest rates, already on a slow but consistent decline for much of the last 18 months, fell to a new 2025 low this week. Now at an average of just 8.23%, home equity loan rates are ...