Knowing how to calculate home equity gives homeowners a way to understand their home’s worth — and potentially liquidate it for their needs or wants. To calculate your home equity, take your home’s ...

Ellen Chang is a freelance journalist based in Houston. She has covered personal finance, energy and cybersecurity topics for TheStreet, Forbes Advisor and U.S. News & World Report as well as CBS News ...

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DENVER — Online home valuation tools provide useful estimates, but lack crucial details that impact a property's true market value. While sites like Zillow pull information from public databases, they ...

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