Considerations include your credit score, how much money you’re borrowing, the value of your home, where your home is located and the size of your down payment.

As you prepare to buy a home or refinance your current one, you’re probably scouting for a mortgage with the best rate. Interest rates are a key consideration, but they shouldn’t be your only ...

Rachel Gustafson serves as a certified financial planner with the Financial Investment Team, a firm based in Portland, Oregon. Over the course of a 12-year career in the field, she has a specialty for ...

Reina Marszalek is a senior mortgage editor at Fox Money who has spent more than 10 years writing and editing content. Fox Money is a personal finance hub featuring content generated by Credible ...

As we grow older, our financial needs change. Perhaps you need a different strategy to cover your regular living expenses, or an unexpected expense crops up. If you’re a homeowner, your home’s equity ...

The labyrinth in the financial world is teeming with intricate mechanisms and systems that can often seem counterintuitive to the uninitiated. One such area of confusion is the relationship between ...

In an effort to bring together reverse mortgage information into one common resource, a new book was published this month that aims to help people better understand reverse mortgages—professionals and ...

Mortgage Banker interviewed Daniel F. Morrill, CPA, principal, Wolf & Company, P.C., after a recent seminar before The Financial Managers Society he participated in on the topic of Inflation and ...

When closing on the financing of either a refinance or a purchase transaction, interest on the loan will be collected from the borrower and prepaid to the lender upon funding of the loan. Easy enough, ...

Mortgages offer individuals and businesses an option for purchasing property without incurring all of the expenses up front. Instead, borrowers agree to repay the loan with interest over time.

Investment Property 2nd Mortgages Using Alternative Income Such as Bank Statements and P&L Homeowners can leverage home equity with second mortgages—explore 2nd mortgage rates, benefits, and loan ...