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Ask Carrie: Is Interest on a HELOC Still Tax-Deductible?

In the past, a HELOC was treated separately and the interest expense on up to $100,000 (single or married filing jointly) was tax-deductible no matter how the money was spent. Under the new law, home ... read more

Your House is Worth More Than Ever. Should You Take Out a HELOC?

According to the real estate website Zillow.com, the average home's value has ... HELOC to pay off your credit cards, and then you just run those cards back up again, says Glenn Phillips, CEO of Lake ... read more

When Does It Make Sense to Take Out a Home Equity Loan?

But time has passed, and you may have noticed your bank's advertisements suggesting you take out a home equity loan ... "The HELOC borrower has the capacity to borrow up to $50,000 but may elect to ta... read more

The Top Tax Court Cases Of 2018: Who Gets To Deduct Mortgage Interest?

They've been cleaning up after you for 25 years, and after you left for college, they had no intention of every doing it again. Desperate to liberate themselves from your presence, your parents loan . ... read more

Personalized Lending For The Digital Consumer

Credit card limits, mortgage originations and home equity line of credit (HELOC ... personalized, relevant loan offers and moves financial institutions toward primary status. Although fairly new, Loan... read more

Rising Rates Are Killing The Housing Market

With roughly a quarter of the home buying cohort unemployed and living at home with their parents, the option to buy simply is not available ... if rates come back down again. The monthly mortgage pay... read more

JPM's Ellie Mae Downgrade; Lots of Vendor News/Products; Tariffs and Rates

The town, 3 and a half hours northeast of Phoenix, has plenty of reasonably-priced houses. It's high desert, and a casual glance indicates that every tree in the yard adds about $50k to the value. Not ... read more

The real student loan crisis

A month has passed since Congress allowed interest rates ... will lose more than $200,000 in retirement savings and home equity from paying off their student loans, compared to a similarly educated ho... read more

Krebs on Security

The Internal Revenue Service has re-enabled a service on its Web site that allows ... an account number from either a credit card, auto loan, mortgage, home equity loan or home equity line of credit; ... read more

Interest Rates Increase: What You Need to Know

This is the fourth time the reserve has increased rates in 2018 ... The rate hike means higher interest rates on both loan and credit accounts—think credit cards and home equity lines of credit (HELOC... read more

The Guide to Home Renovations

[Learn more about The Best Home Improvement Loans.] A type of home equity loan is a home equity line of credit, or HELOC, which serves as a revolving ... take advantage of the free resources available ... read more

Black Knight and the Case of the Disappearing Equity

The average homeowner with more than 20 percent equity has $136,000 available to withdraw through cash-out refinancing or a home equity line of credit (HELOC), about $2,300 less ... regardless of loan ... read more