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Mortgage applications by consumers purchasing a new home dipped in August from July, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The rising costs to service mortgages reflects a market where there are not only downsides to being too small, but hurdles to being too large — raising the question of whether there's a middle ground where servicers are not too big, not too small, but just right.

Interest rates head steady this week despite the monthly jobs report falling short of expectations, according to Freddie Mac.

Three former Nomura Holdings Inc. traders pleaded not guilty to charges that they defrauded investors by inflating the prices of mortgage-backed securities in the wake of the U.S. financial crisis.

Royal Bank of Scotland said it will return to selling interest-only mortgages after scrapping the riskier loans in the wake of the financial crisis.

Moody's Investors Service just flagged a risk in bonds backed by single-family rentals: there aren't enough special servicers.

Charles Hallac, the Wall Street veteran who got his start working with mortgage-backed securities on his way to becoming co-president of BlackRock Inc., has died after an almost four-year battle with cancer. He was 50 years old.

Texas Capital Bank in Dallas has created a correspondent aggregator channel to complement its existing warehouse lending program.

Three former Nomura Holdings Inc. traders were charged with defrauding investors by inflating the prices of mortgage-backed securities, the latest cases to come out of a U.S. crackdown on deceptive sales practices in the market for complex bonds.

The delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages continued to improve for most categories of investors in the second quarter, continuing a trend from the first quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.