Home Equity

American homeowners are doing something surprising: Despite record amounts of home equity available to them — an estimated $1.5 trillion worth — they are...

A startup that buys equity in homes and then offers to sell it back to residents has raised $122 million. Point, a Palo Alto-based...

JPMorgan Chase’s new customized Pinterest boards are meant to simulate a dream renovation, with only the smallest dose of reality. The boards, generated by...

There are more homes in the United States now worth at least twice as much as the loans secured for them, a new report shows....

Homeowners across the country have about $5.8 trillion in equity and — notwithstanding some hesitancy — there’s some surprising ways they plan on using...

Homeowners have more equity than ever before — but are still hesitant to borrow against it. As home prices have appreciated, Americans have more...

What if Congress passed a massive tax bill with scary cutbacks in deductions for homeowners — prompting dire predictions of mass property-value declines —...

If you own a home in the tech hubs of San Francisco, Seattle or San Jose, values are appreciating at rates that can add...

Americans are awash in record amounts of equity in their homes, posing the question for millions: So what do we do with it? Leave...

Americans readily gossip about home values — “Did you hear the crazy high price the house down the street sold for?” “Did you hear...

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...

With homeowners’ equity soaring to near-record levels, financial technology entrepreneurs — backed by deep-pocket venture capital — are dreaming up sophisticated ways to help...

Are millions of homeowners sitting on much bigger equity nest eggs than they think? Do you know how much equity you’ve got? If not,...

Americans are tapping into their home equity at a pace not seen since the housing bubble aftermath nearly a decade ago, but here’s a...

It’s the emerging housing success story that almost nobody knows about: Hundreds of thousands of homeowners who took out record numbers of home equity...

So you’ve watched your home equity holdings grow steadily since the end of the recession and now you want to tap into that wealth...

It’s official: The equity boom, which has added an estimated $1.6 trillion to the personal net wealth of American homeowners in the past year,...

Borrowers who opened home equity lines of credit at the top of the housing bubble are in for sharp increases in their monthly payments....

Record-low mortgage rates have helped boost nationwide home equity levels to their highest point since the third quarter of 2008, Bloomberg News reported. Homeowner...

During the real estate boom, many New York buyers withdrew cash through home equity loans, the New York Times reported, or flipped their properties...