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Introducing Hometap: Offering a Smart Way to Access Your Equity

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By Hometap TeamUpdated on June 12, 2025

Your home is where life happens. Where family gathers, where you share daily triumphs and minor tragedies with the people you love the most. Your home keeps you safe in the present, and secure in the future, appreciating in value even as you enjoy it day in and day out.

If you’re like the majority of Americans, you’ve taken out a mortgage in order to fund the purchase of your home. A lender fronted you the money so you could buy the home from a seller. Since then, you’ve been paying that lender back (plus interest) as your home accrues equity. Equity that you can’t access.

Why is Accessing Your Home Equity So Complicated?

You can refinance, take out a second mortgage, or a home equity loan, but these options can be challenging:

  • It can be very hard to qualify for these loans
  • The process – and time to funding – can take months
  • Your credit score (FICO) may be affected
  • And, if you’ve made it this far, you may be living with even more debt

What if you could bring some of tomorrow’s financial security into your family’s life today, without giving up control of the home you love? Well, that’s why we started Hometap, the revolutionary new financial service for responsible homeowners, nationwide. Hometap is like a time machine for your home equity, bringing some of the value built up in your home down the road into your bank account right now with no monthly payments.

Find out if your property qualifies in minutes.

How Does a Hometap Investment Work?

Depending on your home’s equity, its expected appreciation, and your own financial history, you can receive up to 25% of the value of your home in cash. Here’s how the process works:

How Hometap works

It’s that simple. You could receive a percentage of your equity in cash to pay off debt, fund your business, renovate your home, cushion your retirement fund, or pay for an education.

Read about how homeowners like you have made their Hometap Investment work for them in our Homeowner Stories series.

At Hometap, we understand the value of home, too. We’re investing right alongside you in that value, as confident as you are that your home is a great investment.

Hear more about who we are and why we started Hometap:

Still have questions? Find answers to the most common questions we receive about eligibility, the investment process, and more here.

Ready to get started? Find out if your property qualifies in minutes, risk-free.

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Hometap Team
The team here at Hometap is made up of a diverse group of finance professionals with a wide array of backgrounds and expertise, including mortgage loan processing, banking, real estate, and entrepreneurship. But most importantly, we're homeowners on a mission to make every stage of homeownership less stressful.

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The Hometap family of companies utilizes Hometap Equity Partners, LLC and Hometap Homeownership Solutions, LLC to provide Hometap Home Equity Investments (HEI or HEIs). Each entity has the ability to enter into a HEI directly with the consumer:

Hometap Equity Partners, LLC dba Hometap. NMLS ID# 2467867 NMLS Consumer Access 361 Newbury St, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02115

Hometap Homeownership Solutions, LLC dba Hometap. NMLS ID# 2819930 NMLS Consumer Access 361 Newbury St, Office 450, Boston, MA 02115

Hometap Real Estate Equity Partners, Inc. holds real estate brokerage licenses in certain states. California DRE #02191883

A Hometap HEI has a ten (10) year term, during which no monthly or recurring payments are required. Hometap records a lien against the property, in the form of a mortgage or deed of trust, to secure its interest. You may choose to settle the Investment at any time during the term without incurring any penalties by exercising an Owner Repurchase. If you do not settle the HEI by the expiration of the term, your Hometap HEI provider may exercise its right to acquire a percent ownership interest in the property and then work with you to sell the property. You may contact either Hometap entity at hello@hometap.com (for prospective or current applicants) or homeowners@hometap.com (for homeowners with an active HEI) for more information. Eligibility criteria are subject to change. For current criteria, please contact your Hometap HEI provider at (855) 223-3144 or visit www.hometap.com/faqs

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