NCOA's Home Equity Advisor

Find information, tools, and consumer advice to use and protect the value in your home. Get custom advice for your life situation—even if you need help now. Created by the nonprofit National Council on Aging and made possible by a generous grant from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation.

Decisions about your home can be complicated and have long-term consequences for retirement. Use the Quick Check to help you get clear about what you want:

Your home may be your largest financial asset. How might it fit into your future? Our Quick Check can help you review your financial needs - and find solutions:

There are no one-size-fits-all solutions. Our Quick Check can help you decide when and how to use your home equity:

Is my current home the best place for me?

Family, health, and financial considerations affect whether it's better to move or stay where you are. Our Quick Check can lay out housing options for you:

Public benefits, renting a room, avoiding scams, and even staying healthy can help prevent foreclosures. Our Quick Check can tell you ways to preserve home equity:

Review My Situation

Do you want to plan ahead for changing finances? Need money now? Hope to enhance your quality of life with home equity?

Explore My Solutions

Would you like to tap home equity? Sell and move? Preserve your home and its equity? Stay at home longer?