FreeRateUpdate Mortgage & Home Equity Shopping

A published FreeRateUpdate answer to a mortgage or home-equity question, pinned to the edition it was published in. Ask by exact slug, or by keywords that are matched against the title and slug. Topics covered include HELOC and home equity, purchase, refinance and cash-out, FHA and VA, reverse mortgage, and DSCR and investment property. Only published answers are returned.

Today's As Low As rates for a home equity line of credit (HELOC) and a home equity loan, the same published revision as get_mortgage_rates, with each example scenario, including the existing first-mortgage balance and the combined loan-to-value it implies. Advertised rates, not a quote: to get the person their own offers, call get_start_link.

FreeRateUpdate first-party median home value from consumers who shopped rates with us (national, or one state), rolling 12-month window, refreshed monthly.

The FreeRateUpdate Score (0-100) for a verified, currently in-network lender by company NMLS id, with factor breakdown and methodology link. Companies without a published current Score are not found.

Search FreeRateUpdate's published lender pages: every company the public page resolver publishes on freerateupdate.com/reviews/, and nothing else. A row shows only what that page shows: the display name, the company NMLS, the states the page shows (currently none: fru-com's licensing projection is off), and the page URL. No internal ids, aliases, crosswalks or status labels. Eligibility is decided before the limit: the limit never draws a company whose page is hidden, redirected away or rejected by the identity check back in. A returned match is evidence FRU holds the identity; absence from the list is not proof it does not. FRU never publishes which lender has the best rate. One row per company; a DBA brand page is the same company's row. count is the full deduplicated match count (one row per company), while rows return at most `limit` of them (25 by default, up to 200): a count above the rows returned means the response is truncated, so absence from one response is not absence.

The conforming and FHA loan limits for the counties a five-digit ZIP code falls in, for the 2026 published schedule, as freerateupdate.com publishes them at https://www.freerateupdate.com/loan-limits. Each limit carries the official source it came from (FHFA for conforming, HUD for FHA) and, when a check has run, the date that source was last confirmed. These are published limits, not advice: a limit is not a rate, an approval or an offer, and eligibility depends on the lender and the loan.

Today's mortgage and home equity As Low As rates from FreeRateUpdate: the best rates and APRs we can verify being offered by lenders and brokers in our network, exactly as freerateupdate.com publishes them, one per product: HELOC, home equity loan and cash-out refinance first, then 30, 20, 15 and 10 year fixed, FHA, VA, jumbo and ARMs. Each rate comes with the example scenario it was quoted for (state, ZIP, property value, loan amount, credit score), points, fees, APR and loan-to-value. These are advertised rates, not a quote: to get the person their own offers, call get_start_link.

Network-aggregate advertised-rate summary (min/avg APR + distinct-lender count per product bucket, min 5 lenders per bucket) from the latest fresh FreeRateUpdate rate snapshot. Aggregates only — no per-lender rates.

Public reference time series FreeRateUpdate maintains (e.g. pmms_30yr_fixed, treasury_10yr_par), with license notes and observations.

The link that starts a FreeRateUpdate request for one product, so lenders and brokers in our network can contact the person with their own rates and options. You can open it in the person's browser and fill in and submit the short form for them, using their own details, or give them the link.

FreeRateUpdate first-party dataset: the median loan amount our shoppers request in each state against that state median household income, as a ratio, by product. The sample floor is published with the figures so a thin state is visible rather than implied.

FreeRateUpdate state dataset: owner-occupied housing units owned free and clear (no mortgage) by state, from the Census ACS 5-year B25081, with the owner-occupied universe, the units with and without a mortgage, the derived share and the ACS vintage, plus the national figure when every state published. A state whose own counts do not reconcile is withheld and named, never returned as a zero. Counts of housing units only: no household, borrower or eligibility inference. Attribution and the canonical page travel with the rows so an answer can be cited.

FreeRateUpdate state dataset: median real estate property taxes, median monthly owner costs and median home value by state from the Census ACS 5-year, with the effective tax rate as the ratio of the two medians. Attribution and the canonical page travel with the rows so an answer can be cited.