Linda Bell

About the author

Linda Bell is a senior writer on Bankrate's Home Lending team, producing content around HELOCs, financing home renovations, home equity loans and more. Before joining Bankrate in 2024, she spent more than 20 years as a business and personal finance reporter and writer at organizations including Bloomberg, Fox Business and NerdWallet.

During the housing boom and bust of the 2000s, Linda appeared on hundreds of local television and radio stations providing insight on the stock market and housing industry. At NerdWallet, her focus was homeownership and mortgages, including the homebuying process, home affordability and mortgage management.

Linda is deeply committed to advocating for equal homeownership opportunities for everyone. Her investigative radio series “Minorities and the Housing Market” won numerous awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors and the New York Association of Black Journalists.

Linda graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Print Journalism and English Literature.

Linda beyond Bankrate

Linda on NBC's Today Show on navigating a competitive housing market

Linda wrote about budgeting for a home on MarketWatch

Linda wrote about how to improve housing outcomes for Black homeowners

Linda offered advice on when and why to refinance your mortgage