Most institutions running a meaningful commercial real estate book reach a point where their portfolio view is not as good as it should be. Concentrations are hard to read in the ...
What is a Digital Loan Origination System? A digital loan origination system (LOS) is software that manages the complete commercial lending workflow, from pipeline entry through ...
What is Loan Origination? Loan origination is the complete process lenders follow to bring a loan from initial inquiry to closed and funded status. In commercial real estate ...
What is a Commercial Loan Origination System? A commercial loan origination system (CLOS) is specialized lending software designed specifically for commercial real estate and ...
Most conversations about commercial underwriting software start in the wrong place. They start with features. Sensitivity scenarios, Excel integration, model sharing, portfolio ...
The category has matured. The conversation around it hasn't. Most discussions of commercial lending software still sound like they did a decade ago. The pitch is faster ...
New York, April 28, 2026 – The Rockport Group is pleased to announce the promotion of Will Trepp to Co-CEO, joining Founder Rick Trepp in leading the company into its next stage ...
Risk management in commercial real estate lending is often viewed through the lens of market forces, credit exposure, or collateral performance. Those matter, but operational risk ...
Commercial real estate lending is a margin business. Even small inefficiencies compound across underwriting cycles, closing workflows, asset management reviews, and reporting ...
New York, March 3, 2025 – The Rockport Group is pleased to announce a strategic investment in rSquared, the creator of budgeting and cash flow modeling solutions, rBudget and ...
With data—and the insights that it can deliver—driving the modern economy, data centralization should be a priority for all companies, including commercial real estate (CRE) ...
We’ve discussed why it’s so important to keep hold of and refine your own data. And we’ve looked at cloud computing, and why true cloud-enabled products and services will power ...
Plumbing. It’s not sexy and we only think about it when something goes wrong. But without it, we’d be up to our necks. (I probably don’t need to finish that sentence!)
We’ve all likely fallen victim to the sunk cost fallacy at one time or another. Perhaps we have continued to watch a movie we hated all the way to the end because we already paid ...
Cloud computing. Sounds fluffy, nebulous, and something best left for the techies? Not so. In fact, far from being an ephemeral technology trend we’ll all soon forget about, Cloud ...
If data is modern day oil (we wrote about this here), then currently we’re at the start of a data rush! Data, at scale, and the insights we can derive from it, is going to be a ...
You’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase “data is the new oil”. It refers to the driving force of the digital economy being data, as compared to the oil that powered (and still powers) ...