Expect 2025 to be yet another tough year for home buyers and sellers - and the real-estate industry, economists said. In 2023, existing-home sales fell to a near-30 year-low. Last year, sales fell ...

Attorney General Andrea Campbell has filed a lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court against Hometap, a Boston-based fintech ...

The attorney general alleges that home equity contracts are reverse mortgages without similar oversight, but Hometap disputes the assertions.

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Attorney General Andrea Campbell has filed a lawsuit against Boston-based Hometap, a home equity loan company that Campbell's ...

Richard Thorpe has more than 30 years of mortgage industry experience and has held reverse mortgage leadership positions at multiple lenders.

Let’s say you’re a retiree in your 70s with $450,000 in IRAs and $400,000 in home equity, which you share with your spouse.

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Homeowners looking to borrow $60,000 worth of home equity should crunch the monthly costs. Here's what it costs now.

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Katelyn and Danny Hughes, two homeowners in their mid-twenties, bought their first home together in 2024 in a Pittsburgh suburb. They took advantage of a program from a major nationwide lender that ...