Your home equity — the amount of your house that you own outright — can be a valuable resource. You can use your equity to renovate some rooms, pay off credit cards, cover college tuition, start your ...

Since 2000, the most expensive U.S. homes have quadrupled in value. At the low end, things are very different. By Michael Kolomatsky A lot of ink has been spilled over the surge in home prices since ...

Rachel Witkowski is an award-winning journalist whose 20-year career spans a wide range of topics in finance, government regulation and congressional reporting. Ms. Witkowski has spent the last decade ...