The busy spring homebuying season is heating up, and rates are finally coming down from the year's highs. If you're planning to buy a home, you now may be wondering how to stand out among the crowd.

Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism degree from SUNY Oswego, he wrote credit card content for Credit Card Insider (now Money Tips) before moving to ...

Shopping for homes is exciting until one needs to secure financing to purchase. Even with savings, most Americans can only buy a house through a mortgage loan. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the US ...