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  • Adam Slater, managing director at Laxfield Capital, tells CNBC that their program will lend outside of prime central London but will focus on good quality properties with resilient valuations.

  • Home Builders Turn to Rental Apartments Friday, 25 Jan 2013 | 10:15 AM ET
    Apartment construction in Houston, TX

    Faced with heavy competition from a hot rental market, some of the nation’s home builders are turning some of their resources to building multi-family, rental apartment buildings.

  • New Housing Fears: Home Prices Are Rising Too Fast Tuesday, 22 Jan 2013 | 11:33 AM ET

    "The greatest concern in the market is the inventory situation," said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Associate of Realtors.

  • Housing Crisis: New Rules Hit Mortgage Servicers Thursday, 17 Jan 2013 | 6:01 AM ET

    New rules could make mortgage servicing more expensive, especially for those specialty servicers and level the playing field between them and the big bank servicers.

  • US Home Prices Surge Despite Distress Tuesday, 15 Jan 2013 | 10:21 AM ET

    For nine straight months, national home prices have been in the positive, and the gains are only getting larger.

  • Meet America's New Landlords: REITs Wednesday, 9 Jan 2013 | 10:44 AM ET
    Foreclosures are selling fast.

    This new asset class could offer all kinds of investors a chance to get in on an old and well-tested source of revenue.

  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exacerbated the mortgage crisis and that's why the government should get out of the home loan business, former Wells Fargo CEO Richard Kovacevich told CNBC.

  • Lenders Near Deal With US on Foreclosure Claims Sunday, 6 Jan 2013 | 1:17 PM ET

    A $10 billion settlement to resolve claims of foreclosure abuses by major lenders is expected to be announced on Monday, sources said Sunday. The New York Times reports.

  • Housing Recovers, but the Repo Man Is Back Thursday, 13 Dec 2012 | 11:15 AM ET

    Despite the overall drop in foreclosures, a huge backlog of homes already in the foreclosures process are finally going back to the banks in big numbers.

  • Subprime Housing Scandal  Wednesday, 21 Nov 2012 | 7:50 PM ET

    FHA is short $56 billion in reserves, with Stephen Meister, Meister, Seelig & Fein; and SEIU activists are protesting outside Los Angeles Airport, with Mary Kay Henry, SEIU International president.

  • Tight Lending Is Choking Nascent Housing Recovery Tuesday, 20 Nov 2012 | 4:19 PM ET

    The housing recovery can't gather steam until tight-fisted banks loosen tough lending standards put in place after the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression.

  • FSA Eases Bank Rules to Boost Lending Wednesday, 10 Oct 2012 | 1:47 AM ET
    ATM Machine

    Capital and liquidity rules for the biggest UK banks have been quietly relaxed in an effort to stimulate lending, a move that puts Britain at the forefront of a global experiment to use bank regulation to moderate the economic cycle.

  • No Signs of a Muni Bond Crisis: Lebenthal Friday, 21 Sep 2012 | 5:55 PM ET

    The concerns about municipal finances are overdone, Alexandra Lebenthal, CEO of Lebenthal & Company, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Friday.

  • Municipal Default Rates Still Low: Lebenthal Thursday, 16 Aug 2012 | 1:15 PM ET

    Despite concerns about ballooning public pension expenses, municipal defaults are still  relatively low, Alexandra Lebenthal, Lebenthal & Company president and CEO, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday.

  • Risky Mortgage Bonds Making a Comeback: Pro Thursday, 16 Aug 2012 | 6:48 AM ET

    The U.S. housing market is showing signs of recovery and investors should be looking at non-agency mortgages, the very asset class that prompted the global financial crisis, according to Gregory Perdon, Co-Chief Investment Officer at Arbuthnot Latham & Co.

  • Subprime & the Automakers  Tuesday, 7 Aug 2012 | 1:15 PM ET

    About 19 percent of all auto loans are subprime or deep subprime, according to Experian. CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports.

  • Standards for Subprime Lending Loosen  Tuesday, 7 Aug 2012 | 11:38 AM ET

    CNBC's Rick Santelli and Phil LeBeau discuss pursuing profit in subprime auto lending.

  • The 204% Rate Lender  Thursday, 19 Jul 2012 | 4:40 PM ET

    CNBC's Herb Greenberg reports on a subprime lender charging up to 204 percent on its loans.

  • 'Golden Boy's' Big Short Bet on Housing  Thursday, 19 Jul 2012 | 8:04 AM ET

    Josh Birnbaum, Tilden Park Capital founder & CIO, explains how his trades against the U.S. subprime mortgage market in 2007 made nearly $4 billion for Goldman Sachs, and weighs in on how to play a housing recovery.

  • Automakers Target Subprime  Wednesday, 23 May 2012 | 1:48 PM ET

    The average new car auto loan grew as consumers are expanding the length of their loan, reports CNBC's Phil LeBeau.