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• Understanding Your Credit Score: Your Credit Score is used by anyone loaning you money. This score is most often known as FICO and serves as a snapshot of your credit history.
• What Moves Mortgage Rates?: The answer is that rates are moved by a number of related factors.
• Home Equity Loans: The Three-Day Cancellation Rule. The Truth In Lending Act gives you three days to reconsider a signed credit agreement and cancel the deal without penalty.

Featured Lenders

The lenders below offer free online quotes and loan applications for mortgages, home loans and refinancing.

Quicken Loans: The easiest way to get a home loan. Quicken Loans is the leading online home mortgage lender and offers simple, convenient and quick home loans.

Dirt-cheap loans on new homes
Homebuilders are offering discounted interest rates to lure buyers back into the market.

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Electric cars get a boost
The government has paid billions to Ford and Nissan, but tiny Tesla stands to benefit the most.

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Lower tier gas can hurt your engine over time. If your car's manual says to use Top Tier, heed it.

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Dirt-cheap loans on new homes
Homebuilders are offering discounted interest rates to lure buyers back into the market.

5 tips for buying a foreclosed home
Do the footwork first to find a deal on a foreclosed home. Here's what you need to know.

Interest Rate Roundup
Here are the latest interest rates and commentary on five common consumer banking products from Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large banks and thrifts.

Mortgage rates drop again
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 10 basis points, to 5.7 percent, according to Bankrate's weekly survey.

Rate Trend Index -- Mortgages
Each week, Bankrate.com surveys experts to gauge which way interest rates are headed on mortgages -- a vital tool if you're about to buy a home.