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What a Digital Loan Origination System changes for lending teams
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 ...
Loan origination explained: How the process works and where Loan Origination Software fits
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 ...
Why a Commercial Loan Origination System is different from a Standard LOS
What is a Commercial Loan Origination System? A commercial loan origination system (CLOS) is specialized lending software designed specifically for commercial real estate and ...
What Commercial Underwriting Software should actually improve
Most conversations about commercial underwriting software start in the wrong place. They start with features. Sensitivity scenarios, Excel integration, model sharing, portfolio ...
Why Commercial Lending Software matters more as operations get more complex
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 ...
Rockport announces Will Trepp as Co-CEO
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 ...
8 ways SaaS minimizes business risk in CRE
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 ...
Unlocking profit potential: How CRE leaders turn SaaS into a revenue driver
Commercial real estate lending is a margin business. Even small inefficiencies compound across underwriting cycles, closing workflows, asset management reviews, and reporting ...
How SaaS on demand lightens the workload for CRE lending teams
The growing weight of daily work Commercial real estate lending has always been complex, but the pace and expectations facing today’s teams are heavier than ever: deal pipelines ...
10 ways SaaS speeds up innovation in CRE
For lenders, innovation is not about flashy tools. It is about finding faster, more secure ways to work with data, stay compliant, and respond to market shifts. SaaS, or ...
6 advantages of SaaS over building your own CRE software
Every CRE lender faces the same question: build software internally, or adopt Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)? At first glance, building your own system seems to promise ...
Maximizing efficiency in property valuation with SaaS
Property valuation is central to every CRE decision. But when data, models, and people are disconnected, the process slows. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms — cloud-based ...
5 reasons centralized data gives CRE firms a competitive edge
In commercial real estate (CRE), speed and accuracy separate the leaders from the rest. Yet many firms still operate with fragmented systems, isolated spreadsheets, and scattered ...
SaaS and data centralization: why CRE firms can’t afford to wait
In commercial real estate, your data is only as valuable as your ability to access, trust, and use it. Yet many firms are still juggling multiple systems, file versions, and “data ...
From breadlines to data democracy: how SaaS centralizes CRE information
In commercial real estate, data is currency. But for too many firms, getting to that data feels less like a modern business process and more like waiting in a Depression-era ...
Rockport Invests in rSquared to Broaden its Product Suite
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 ...
SaaS and data centralization: What you need to know
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) ...
Rockport VAL's Modeling Options to Adjust the Net Operating Income in the Reversion Year
Rockport VAL allows users to modify the Net Operating Income (NOI) in the reversion year in the following ways: 1. Select a different residual value year to capitalize. 2. ...
What is the right modeling approach for the Reversion or Exit Year in a DCF?
In commercial real estate, analysts are frequently challenged with the periodic task of reasonably projecting and “predicting” the cash flow and valuation of a property whether it ...
Five reasons why data and cloud services are made for each other
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 ...