Last month, in the unpublished opinion Olson v. Unison Agreement Corporation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that a home equity investment (HEI) agreement met the ...

A home equity agreement is an arrangement where a homeowner sells a portion of the equity in their home to an investor in exchange for cash. The homeowner must pay back the amount within a specific ...

Struggling with job loss? Discover ways to use home equity, including mortgages and shared equity deals, to ease financial stress. TNS Homeowners who are in danger of losing their jobs — or who have ...

Eileen Perry, 57, was unemployed and struggling to buy groceries and pay her bills. She turned to a company that gives homeowners cash in exchange for a share of the home's future sale price. Perry ...

Across the country, families like the Shermans are forging new paths to homeownership—ones that blend financial support with co-ownership, legal contracts, and sometimes, family negotiations that ...

Something on the order of one in every 11 home owners with a mortgage experience what the experts term a “labor market shock” each and every year. And with the conflagration that has been going on in ...