Building home equity can not only be a reliable way to create wealth but can also help you maintain the home while you’re living in it. Building home equity generally involves increasing your property ...

Home equity is the portion of your property's value that you own outright. To determine how much equity you have, subtract the balance on your mortgage from the house's current market value. For ...

Housing advocates have tried for years to raise their issue to prominence. It took pandemic-fueled bidding wars followed by a surge in mortgage rates to do it. The issue reached the national stage, ...

If you're like most people, buying a house is the largest purchase you'll ever make, and it eventually becomes a cornerstone of your wealth. But here's what many homeowners overlook: It’s not the home ...

If you’re looking to move but haven’t found the perfect home — or you’re balking at the current market’s high prices — you might be wondering what it would take to build a brand-new home of your own.

KB Home’s built-to-order model delivers higher margins. However, a strong shift to BTO brings risks as backlog orders decline ...

Austin is one of Texas's many booming cities. But the state can do even more to encourage home building. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is eager to make Texas bigger. Last year, he flew across Asia ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Oregon needs to build about 29,500 more homes each year, mostly in the Portland region and Willamette Valley, to emerge from a housing shortage years in the making, the ...

PLAIN CITY, Utah — Miranda and Cole Potokar, who are 23 and 24, have talked a lot with friends about their terrible timing in the housing market. "We would make jokes like, 'What was I doing in third ...