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Cantor Fitzgerald last week filed a form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue CMBS under its CCRE Commercial Mortgage Securities trust.

Do some managers in your workplace undermine others' inner work lives? One of my executive coaching clients, the managing partner of a Bay Area law firm and I were recently engaged in a conversation about assessing his firm's talent. We talked about how one of the manager's in the San Francisco location didn't feel that one of the employees had the capability of developing into a leadership role at the firm.

A small, privately-held mortgage banking company based in Wyoming has opened a new branch office, an indication that some home finance firms are thriving in the face of the housing recession.

Home sale numbers in Northern and Southern California are relatively stable but it does not appear they are positioned for any major gains, recent statistics from DataQuick suggest.

The serious delinquency rate on Federal Housing Administration loans has risen a full percentage point over four months to 9.3% in November.

Carrington Holding Co. is trying to raise $1 billion from investors to purchase foreclosed single-family properties that its mortgage services unit will manage and rent.

Massachusetts's home sales continued to show signs of a possible recovery with a 13% increase in November from the prior year.

Loan officers will have some unpleasant news for their customers in 2012: the cost to obtain a new government-backed mortgage will be rising.

The combined value of loans in CMBS pools hardly budged from October to November, according to data released last week from DebtX. Based on loans that the advisory firm prices, the figure at the end of November was 85.2%, from 85.3% on Oct. 31.

VantageScore Solutions has published a series of three educational white papers aimed at clarifying various questions consumers and market participants have about credit scores.