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Do Homework Before Building a New Home

Homeowners usually decide to build a new home to be able to choose more options than they can find in an existing house and/or to live in a specific location.

Home Equity Loan Info

Shopping around for a home loan will help you to get the best financing deal. A home equity loan-is a product, just like a car, so the price and terms may be negotiable. You'll want to compare all the costs involved in obtaining an equity loan. Shopping, comparing, and negotiating may save you thousands of dollars.

How Can I Combat Rising Interest Rates?

Recent increases in interest rates have had buyers scrambling. When interest rates rise, so do monthly mortgage payments, which makes buying a home more expensive. It's hard to think about paying more to buy a home when weeks earlier it would have cost a lot less. What can you do to ease the pain of higher rates?

Beating Home's Summer Heat

When summer's sun is beating down outside, the inside of your home can quickly become hot and stuffy, with warm, stale air seeming to hang stagnant in every corner.

Big House, Bigger Budget

What does Hillary Clinton with her 5,500-square-foot, six-bedroom house on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. have in common with buyers of the brand new 5,000-square-foot houses that are beginning to dot the suburbs around the country?

Fixer-Uppers Not for Everyone

Many buyers would rather continue to live where they are than buy a fixer-upper. Renovating a home is a lot of work, and the work can disrupt your life. Also, it's often hard to know in advance how much the project will ultimately cost. .