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Real estate technology provider Pavaso and International Document Services, Inc. (IDS), mortgage document preparation provider, have announced their mortgage closing platform collaboration in a recent press release. The firms will combine Pavaso’s Digital Close, an electronic closing platform, and IDS’s document preparation system idsDoc.

Zillow released a mortgage analysis of loan requests and quotes finding that borrowers with loans of $100,000 pay 10 percent more for every dollar borrowed due to higher interest rates and fees compared to borrowers with $400,000 home loans. Furthermore, borrowers with small loans tend to have trouble finding lenders to lend to them.

Chairman of the House Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee, Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) held a hearing yesterday to analyze how proposed changes to the real estate process will affect lenders and consumers.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently issued an update to mortgage-backed security (MBS) structure, also known as Single Security. The new changes to the Single Security structure are based on 23 responses to a “Request for Public Input: Proposed Single Security Structure (RFI)” released in August 2014 by the FHFA.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings’ president and COO, Harold Lewis recently announced his retirement from the company effective May 31st.

Visio Financial Services, a residential real estate marketplace lender in the U.S., revealed the results of its Annual Residential Real Estate Investor Report today. The report found that investors are expanding their property searches, buying in higher price bands, and broadening their strategies in 2015.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York Fed) released their Household Debt and Credit Report this week that showed household debt balances including, mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, and student loans were “largely flat for Q1 2015.”

Valuation Vision (V2) announced in a recent press release that BPOMerge will be available through FNC’s AppraisalPort. Valuation Vision is a nationwide provider of alternative valuation products.

An Agency mortgage servicing rights deal worth approximately $45 billion between Chase and Ocwen Financial Corp. has been finalized after two and a half months, according to an announcement from Chase on Thursday. Ocwen first announced on March 2 it had signed a letter of intent to sell the $45 billion portfolio, which includes about 266,000 high-quality Fannie Mae loans, to an anonymous buyer.

In its second year, the National Appraisal Congress—a Five Star Institute membership group formed to advocate on behalf of appraisal professionals and the valuations industry—has signed property software and technology provider Aspen Grove Solutions as a returning National Sponsor.