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DocMagic, Inc., a provider of fully-compliant loan document preparation, compliance, eSign, and eDelivery solutions, recently announced in a press release the hiring of Edward Komski as the company's national sales manager. In his role, he will be responsible for introducing DocMagic’s entire suite of software solutions to large, enterprise-level lending organizations.

More money is being put into construction to meet constant demand from consumers. The U.S Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that construction spending for May reached an estimated amount of $1,035.8 billion, 0.8 percent increase from the revised April figure of $1,027 billion. Residential construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $359.5 billion in May, 0.3 percent above the revised April estimate of $358.5 billion.

Many borrowers are unaware of their homebuying power and are underestimating their mortgage eligibility, according to a recent study by Genworth Mortgage Insurance, a unit of Genworth Financial, Inc. The results showed that 66 percent of the 113 lending executives surveyed feel that many borrowers who are eligible for mortgages do not feel that they can realistically purchase a home.

Fannie Mae released an update to their Private Mortgage Insurer Eligibility Requirements (PMIERs) today regarding the treatment of loans with lender-paid mortgage insurance. The PMIERS are scheduled to go into effect on December 31, 2015. Fannie Mae made updates to the PMIERS FAQs section, eligibility requirements, operational performance scorecard, quarterly portfolio and financial supplement, quarterly portfolio loan level dataset, and their selling guide.

Home prices have continued to rise across the country in April 2015 and for the last 12 months at a moderate pace, according to the results from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices released today. The Case Shiller Index, which covers all nine U.S. census divisions, posted a 4.2 percent annual increase in April 2015, compared to a slightly higher 4.3 percent increase in March 2015.

Healthy demand and 4 percent month-over-month growth in supply are pushing housing markets to their best position since 2006, maintaining their springtime momentum and increasing sales in June 2015, according to Realtor.com’s ‘Advance Read on June Trends’ released today. Realtor.com also listed markets that receive double or triple the amount of views per listing on the site compared to national average.

Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair Sheila Bair has announced as the keynote speaker for the Third Annual Women in Housing Leadership Forum at the 12th Annual Five Star Conference and Expo on September 18 in Dallas, according to an announcement from the Five Star Institute.

J.K. Huey, SVP of asset management and preservation with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, has been appointed the chairperson of the Five Star Institute National Mortgage Servicing Association (NMSA), according to an announcement from Five Star.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently released their Monthly Interest Rate Survey (MIRS) finding that on a national level, interest rates on conventional purchase-money mortgages decreased from April to May, according to several indices of new mortgage contracts.

ReverseVision, Inc., recently announced in a press release it has added credit reporting capabilities to RV Exchange (RVX), ReverseVision’s reverse loan origination system (RLOS) platform. With this new technology, reverse mortgage lenders can automatically import a borrower’s credit information directly into RVX’s Financial Assessment (FA) module.