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Home remodeling contractors' survey finds recent federal regulation is causing "a significant increase in the cost" of remodeling projects nationwide.

Barclays Capital has appointed Larry Kravetz and Spencer Kagan to its CMBS sector to expand its CMBS origination business.

In May, the delinquency rate on U.S. CMBS loans fell four basis points to 9.18%.

No one could have predicted the speed of recovery in the commercial real estate space, said panelists speaking at the American Securitization Forum’s 2011 annual meeting.

A mayoral candidate in Tucson, Az., is taking the housing crisis into his own hands, seizing foreclosed homes owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an effort to help homeowners get their property back.

Over the last several decades, we have engaged in a financial experiment, or adventure, of exploding agency debt relative to Treasury securities.

Robert J. Shiller, a Yale University economist and the namesake of the closely watched Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price indexes, has been called overly pessimistic for predicting home prices could fall another 25%.

Freddie Mac's issuance of mortgage-backed securities declined in May for the fifth consecutive month to a 27-month low as refinancing activity continues to wane.

Ellie Mae and Lenders Processing Services were the only mortgage-related stocks bucking the negative trend on Wall St. Thursday morning, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, once down 235 points on the day, was still off 156 at 1 p.m.

Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. will pay $200 million in restitution to subprime and mortgage-related bond fund investors to settle multi-regulator enforcement proceedings related to improper marketing and insufficient disclosures.