The Value of Your Home Can Help You Retire
By Debbie Sagorin, Marketing Irvine to the Highest Level
(Coldwell Banker Realty)
We often discuss the difference in family wealth between homeowner households and renter households. Much of that difference is the result of the equity buildup that homeowners experience over the time that they own their home.In a report recently released by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), they reveal how valuable equity can be in retirement planning and they said. “Individual account retirement plan assets, plus home equity, represent almost all of what families have to use for retirement expenses outside of Social Security and traditional pensions. Those families without individual account assets typically have very low overall assets, so they have almost nothing to draw from for retirement expenses.” Fannie Mae highlighted these findings for their blog t...
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