Welcome to Ilyce Glink's blog! Here you'll find Ilyce's latest insights on personal finance advice, real estate advice and consumer issues. Come back often for timely and interesting posts on a wide variety of topics.
Ilyce is now blogging on home equity for MoneyWatch.com!
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Topics: real estate advice, personal finance advice, home equity loan, consumer advice
We're talking tax today. Bill Nemeth and Merry Brodie are with us in the studio answering your tax questions. If you have federal or state income tax questions, such as what kinds of deductions you can take or what taxes you owe on inherited property, or how to reduce your income tax bill, give us a…
Topics: taxes, property taxes, back taxes
Interest rates for 30-year fixed rate mortgages averaged 4.78 percent this week, according to Freddie Mac. That's down from an average 4.85 percent last week.
That's the lowest rate since 1971, when Freddie Mac began tracking mortgage interest rates on a weekly basis.
Here are some other average rates…
Topics: mortgage, mortgage loan, interest rates, freddie mac, fixed rate mortgage
The number of bankruptcies filed by American consumers increased 41 percent in March compared with a year earlier, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.
121,413 consumer bankruptcies were filed, up 24 percent from February.
ABI predicts there will be 1.4 million consumer bankruptcies in…
Topics: bankruptcy, personal finance
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