Home equity loans, once seen as the borrowing of last resort, have grown a thousandfold since banks began spending billions of dollars to advertise them.

Home equity loans, once seen as the borrowing of last resort, have grown a thousandfold since banks began spending billions of dollars to advertise them.

Identity thieves are scheming to defraud people with good credit by tapping into their home equity.

If you think the housing bailout bill will benefit only troubled homeowners, you may miss out on a windfall.

If you are ignoring the housing bailout bill because you think it benefits only troubled homeowners, you may miss out on a windfall.

While banks say they have been tightening credit standards for more than a year, the growth rate of commercial and industrial loans is still growing faster than at any time in recent years.

Wall Street is buzzing that Bank of America’s offer for the troubled mortgage giant Countrywide Financial Corp. may be unraveling.

The Federal Reserve chairman urged Congress to give federal agencies “greater latitude” to take an innovative approach to dealing with the housing crisis.

For those people who own their homes mortgage-free, the question is what to do with a houseful of equity.

The automaker boosted its sales, but lost $3.25 billion from a bankrupt former parts division, a strike at a major supplier and bad home loans made by its finance arm.