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Amid a lackluster housing market, additional downgrades of military base projects and budgetary uncertainty, adjustment was the theme Thursday at The Bond Buyer's sixth annual military housing privatization conference.

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

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.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act case whose outcome could shield banks and other lenders from litigation under a wide range of federal and state laws.

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%.

I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients, a president in a Silicon Valley high tech company. We discussed how culture change begins with getting clarity on desired results.

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.

WASHINGTON—The cost of being a Federal Housing Administration-approved lender is making it difficult for many small lenders to retain their ability to table-fund FHA loans.

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.

Many commercial real estate investors are aggressively buying properties as they believe the industry's overall fundamentals are stabilizing and in certain sectors and regions, even improving, the second quarter PWC Real Estate Investor Survey found.