Your home equity — the amount of your house that you own outright — can be a valuable resource. You can use your equity to renovate some rooms, pay off credit cards, cover college tuition, start your ...

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

Home equity levels are high these days. In fact, the average homeowner currently has over $300,000 of it, according to a ...

Do we really need another Zillow Zestimate-style online gizmo to tell us what a computer model says our homes are worth? Probably not. There already are scads of websites that offer some type of ...

The trading world offers multiple avenues, with equity and commodity markets standing out as two dominant segments. While both involve speculation and strategy, the rules governing margin, use of ...

While inflation may have cooled in April and in the months prior, the federal funds rate remains high and on pause, perhaps longer than many had anticipated. This has, in part, caused interest rates ...

If you’re a first-time entrepreneur, there can be a lot of confusing financial jargon to deal with — especially when you’re raising funding. If you don’t want to get screwed, some things are worth ...

There’s often a big difference between the home equity you have and the home equity you can literally use, or tap for ready cash. Homeowners cannot borrow the full amount of their equity — they must ...

As an advisor to new startups, one of the number one questions I get is how should equity be divided up amongst cofounders? That’s a loaded question with a number a variables to consider before you ...

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 ...