Should I Prepay My Home Equity Loan? (KiplingerForecasts.com)
Does it make sense to sell mutual funds to prepay a home-equity loan?

Guard Home Equity From Fraudulent Brokers (Hartford Courant)
Freddie Mac is hoping YouTube can help prevent troubled borrowers from losing their homes, or at least preserve their equity.

Dissolving home equity melts refinance options (The Edmond Sun)
By the end of 2008 rates on more than two million home mortgages are scheduled to increase. If your home is financed with one of these types of mortgages, the time to refinance is now. This is because of several important factors in the current housing market.

Car loan shouldn't hurt home refinance (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)
If you have good credit, a new car loan shouldn't hamper your ability to refinance a home loan, says Dr. Don Taylor.

Consumer loan and savings rates (San Jose Mercury News)
Consumer Loan And Savings Rates A sampling of financial institutions was asked to quote the most recent lowest annual percentage rates they would charge a new loan customer with an annual income from $30,000 to $35,000 and good credit standing.

Credit market quakes cause student loan tremors (Lincoln Journal Star)
WASHINGTON — Credit-market tremors — like the ones linked to the housing crisis — are beginning to show up in the $85 billion student-loan market. So far, there is no apparent shortgage of loans available to college-bound Americans.

The Home Buying Process: Step by Step (Benton Evening News)
(ARA) - Buying a home can be a very intimidating process, especially if you've never done it before. So the first thing you should do before you start is to figure out whether owning a home is right for you.

Be careful borrowing from retirement plan (Orlando Sentinel)
With home equity tapped out amid the housing slowdown, cash-strapped Americans may turn next to their retirement plans.

Home Federal Savings and Loan Association and First Louisiana Bank to Combine Institutions, Forming Shreveport´s ... (wallstreet:online AG)
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana, (180898;OTCBB:HFBL), the parent of Home Federal Savings and Loan

Senate backs home loan bill (The Monterey County Herald)
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday approved legislation that would make it easier for homeowners facing potentially higher mortgage payments to get help from the government.