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Leads360 announced the availability of Leads360 Express, a cloud-based software solution designed to help small lenders and loan officers improve their sales lead conversion rates.

Initial unemployment insurance claims fell 7,000 for the week ending March 2, closing the week at an advance estimate of 340,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The decline represents the fourth drop in the last five weeks, indicating a downward trend in layoffs.

The Policy Advisory Board of Harvard├â┬ó├óÔÇÜ┬¼├óÔÇ×┬ós Joint Center for Housing Studies convened its first meeting of 2013 under the leadership of recently appointed chairman Michael H. Thaman.

Following an industry report on immigrants in the American housing market, Residential Finance Corporation announced a new program for foreign and immigrant homebuyers.

In Tennessee, Quality Mortgage Services, LLC announced the opening of QMiS Systems, a provider of knowledge processing outsourcing (KPO) and business processing outsourcing (BPO) designed to serve the financial services and banking industries.

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, one of the nation's largest mortgage banks, announced the hiring of Phyllis Cheong and Pattie Wainright-Hosti as senior loan officers serving Georgia's greater Savannah area.

Global DMS and MortgageFlex announced that Global DMS' eTrac Enterprise platform is now integrated with MortgageFlex's LoanQuest loan origination system (LOS).

Bill Armstrong, founder and chairman of Colorado-based Blueberry Systems, LLC, was named by the Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR) as the recipient of its 2013 Legacy Award.

While more than 90 percent of homes purchased in 2011 were existing homes, more than half of homebuyers declared a preference for new homes, according to the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) Characteristics of Home Buyers, an analysis of the 2011 American Housing Survey conducted by the Census Bureau. Along with their preference for new homes, survey respondents expressed a desire for energy-efficient homes. According to NAHB, these two qualities go hand-in-hand.

CoreLogic's Home Price Index (HPI) saw its greatest yearly increase in nearly seven years in January, the analytics provider revealed Tuesday. Home prices nationwide--including distressed sales--rose on a year-over-year basis by 9.7 percent in January. The spike represents the biggest increase since April 2006, CoreLogic said. CoreLogic's Pending HPI, a metric measuring current trends in home prices, indicates that prices (including distressed sales) in February will likely match January's year-over-year improvement.