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 ...

Homeowners have various financing options through their home equity. But in today's economic climate, it's become harder to access. After its third meeting in 2025, the Federal Reserve held interest ...

Home equity loan interest rates fell this week to their lowest level in two years, a Wednesday report revealed. The average rate for the benchmark five-year home equity loan is now just 7.99%, ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

America’s home equity has doubled in seven years. Homes are the nation’s piggy bank. And they are worth a collective $32.8 trillion, as of early 2024, according to federal data. That’s up from $15.6 ...

There was plenty of enthusiasm for the fundraising and dealmaking outlook at this year's SuperReturn conference of private equity professionals, but also an acknowledgment that the IPO market has ...

In her new book Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back. Twelve million people in ...

Digital inclusion strategies are essential to ensure that digital health technology advances, rather than undermines, health ...