Can you afford that house? Use Google's mortgage calculator to find out if you can swing the monthly payment. Matt Elliott Senior Editor Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops ...

Learn the pros and cons of different frequencies: monthly, semi-monthly, bi-weekly, accelerated bi-weekly, weekly and accelerated weekly. Many or all of the products on this page are from partners who ...

When you buy a home with a mortgage, your payments are due monthly by default. In an effort to pay off their mortgages faster and pay less in interest over the loan’s lifetime, some homeowners choose ...

Whether you’re buying your first house or your forever home, understanding your monthly mortgage payment is vital before you close. It’s often the largest recurring expense in your budget, and knowing ...

Lenders who offer mortgages with shorter payment periods than the standard monthly payment mortgage usually do claim that they will save the borrower money. But they seldom explain how. The Sources of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Making bi-weekly mortgage payments instead of monthly ones could help homeowners pay off their loans years earlier and save thousands of dollars in interest. David Brindley, deputy ...

This regularly-scheduled sponsored Q&A column is written by Adam Gallegos, Arlington-based real estate broker, voted one of Arlington Magazine’s Best Realtors of 2013 & 2014. Please submit your ...

If you have a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, you're locking yourself into three decades of monthly payments, with interest accruing the whole time. It's understandable, then, that some homeowners would ...