Her insights are regularly featured in the press -- including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Bloomberg. Katherine Watt is a CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking.

Kiah Treece is a small business owner and personal finance expert with experience in loans, business and personal finance, insurance and real estate. Her focus is on demystifying debt to help ...

kate_sept2004 / Getty Images A home equity line of credit (HELOC ... many borrowers who used this method found their homes in foreclosure. Mortgage lending discrimination is illegal.

One alternative, if you own a home that has accumulated some equity, is to take out a home equity loan. But doing so has some serious risks. Mainly, you risk losing the home you used as collateral ...

If you own your home, your home equity may make it possible to access a significant amount of money when you need it. In fact, the average homeowner has around $206,000 of tappable equity in their ...

Within the firm's mutual fund business, which represents the majority of its assets, the value and growth equity franchises oversee some of the firm's best-rated funds. They have shown prudent ...

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Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. A political analyst ...

ABERDEEN – During a special-called meeting Jan. 8, the board of aldermen discussed a contract with Monroe County regarding the housing of inma… ...