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Comparewell method

How we research

Coach's call

Every page on Comparewell starts from a question a reader is likely to ask and ends with the primary source that answers it. For mortgage shopping, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rules on Loan Estimates and credit inquiries carry the most weight here, so those pages are checked first whenever they change.

Last reviewed against the primary sources listed below.

Where questions come from

Topics come from the questions people type into search engines about this subject, gathered from free public autocomplete suggestions, then narrowed to the ones this site's focus can answer well.

Sources we rely on

Pages cite these primary sources, among others. Each guide lists the exact sources it used at the bottom of the page.

How a page is checked

  1. Each rule is checked against the current version of its source document.
  2. Simplified explanations are reread against the original text.
  3. The review date at the top of the page is updated only after that check.

Pages written this way

About the Comparewell shopping-week planner

The Comparewell shopping-week planner uses only what you type, works entirely in the browser and keeps nothing.

Rules of the game