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Rates on 30-year mortgages didn’t budge this week, while rates on other home loans were a mixed bag.
Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.52 percent for the week ending Aug. 7. That was the same as last week’s rate, which marked the second-highest of the year. The highest — [...]

With gas prices rising, fuel efficient vehicles are gaining worth

You can’t call them “good investments” because they inevitably depreciate. But the models in our ranking of the top 10 vehicles with highest resale value do amount to sensible purchases for the way they minimize the dollar losses associated with owning and maintaining a vehicle.
The models [...]

The title to this article is a snowclone. And while many of you don’t know (yet) what a snowclone is, I believe the entertainment value of knowing a little about them almost matches the value of knowing which group of stocks has historically smashed the market’s averages. Before I wander off on my tangent, you [...]

Infomercial king Billy Mays, known for screaming about the wonders of cleaning solutions Kaboom!, OxiClean, and other household products, is now starring in a commercial for what he calls “the most important product I’ve ever endorsed:” health insurance. The bearded salesman started pitching iCan Benefit Group’s “health insurance that you can actually afford” in May [...]

More than half of homeowners pay too much because their property has been wrongly assessed. Here’s how to research and correct mistakes, and how to navigate the appeals process.
You could be paying more than you owe in property taxes.
In a hot market, owners often find themselves facing double, sometimes triple, increases in property taxes, according [...]