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Product Jul 15, 2021

Small Business, Big Lending Potential

Many businesses scale through real estate acquisition and renovation, and commercial loans help them achieve their real estate goals. Here at RealAtom, we pride ourselves on matching our clients with the optimal loan for their business. Lenders routinely work with...

Insights Jul 14, 2021

What is portfolio lending?

Tyler White: Welcome everyone to the RealAtom lender podcast series, where you will learn more about the lenders on the platform and the organizations they represent. My name is Tyler White, RealAtom’s head of sales. RealAtom is the industry's number...

Product Jul 9, 2021

Empower Your Team By Streamlining Your Loan Process

Team dynamics for commercial real estate lending is vital to ensuring smooth and efficient deals and timely loan closings. However, many inefficiencies are built into the traditional lending process that can impede your workflow and cause your pipeline to get...

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Product Jun 28, 2021

Take Control Of Your Future Loans By Leveraging Your Historical Data

RealAtom enables our users to harness the power of their data to optimize their deal flow, make strategic lending decisions, and ultimately increase the number of deals they close while simultaneously decreasing the overall loan cycle. Today we will discuss...

Insights Jun 24, 2021

A new lender podcast featuring another RealAtom customer – Cross River Bank

Tyler WHITE: 💯 My name is Tyler White RealAtom's head of sales. RealAtom is the industry's number one lending as a service technology platform, empowering commercial real estate lenders like banks, credit unions, and non-banking organizations to generate more CRE...

Insights Jun 23, 2021

Automation: A Sword And A Shield For CRE

The business strategy continues to evolve as new technologies and solutions enter into mainstream strategy, but nothing has made an impact quite like automation. In commercial real estate lending automation is a broad term for technology that takes over tasks...

Insights Jun 17, 2021

A new lender podcast featuring another RealAtom customer – W Financial

Tyler WHITE: 🎥 Welcome everybody to the RealAtom lender podcast series, where you will learn more about the lenders on the RealAtom platform and the organizations they represent. 🥷 My name is Tyler White RealAtoms heads of sales. RealAtom is...

Insights Jun 10, 2021

Paperless Lending

📬Real estate lending technology has come a long way in the last couple of decades, and digital resources have been one of the most powerful change agents out of all of the developments. It enhances the lending process by making...

Insights Jun 10, 2021

A new lender podcast featuring another RealAtom customer – Flushing Bank

Tyler White: 😎 Welcome everyone to the RealAtom lender podcast series. We'll you will learn about the lenders on the RealAtom platform and the organizations they represent. ✅ My name is Tyler White, RealAtom's head of sales. RealAtom is the industry's...

Insights Jun 2, 2021

How to create a trust culture and make more money

Yulia Yaani: Hi, this is Yulia Yanni with ReaAtom, and this is our new podcast series with innovators in the commercial real estate lending industry. Just before we start, ReaAtom is the industry-leading lending SAAS technology that powers commercial real...

Insights May 28, 2021

PACE Loans

🏡 Real estate loans come in all shapes and sizes, depending on the borrower's goals and objectives. ⚡ As renewable energy and energy-efficient technology evolve, many homeowners and commercial real estate investors want to ensure that they take advantage of...

Insights May 20, 2021

A new lender podcast featuring another RealAtom customer – Hanmi Bank

Tyler White: My name is Tyler White RealAtom's head of sales. RealAtom is the industry's number one lending as a service technology platform and is powering commercial real estate lenders like banks, credit unions, and non-banking organizations to generate more...

Company May 20, 2021

How to Close Deals More Efficiently Than Ever Before

😷Before the pandemic, commercial and business lending was slow and tedious compared to the speed and efficiency of Fintechs and modernized banking companies. However, once the SBA's Payment Protection Plan (PPP) Rolled out, over 14 years' worth of loans were...

Insights May 13, 2021

If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else

Story of Berkadia's silver bullet for CRE markets and how to say "yes" to innovations when you work for a large corporation. Yulia Yaani: Hi, I'm Yulia Yanni, CEO, and co-founder of RealAtom and our new episode of innovation slash technology...

Insights May 12, 2021

Digital Darwinism In A Post-Pandemic

✅ From digital meetings to contactless banking, there is hardly any aspect of business that has not seen an unparalleled evolution because of the pandemic. 💯 Companies that proactively embrace digital efficiencies can serve their customers better than ever before,...

Insights May 5, 2021

SBA Seven (a) Loans from Celtic Bank on RealAtom platform

Tyler WHITE: Welcome everybody to the RealAtom lender podcast series, where you'll learn more about the lenders on the RealAtom platform and the organizations they represent. My name is Tyler White, RealAtom’s head of sales. RealAtom is the industry's number...

Insights Apr 29, 2021

Efficiency and Transparency have arrived to… Agency lending.

Yulia Yaani: Hello everyone. This is Yulia Yanni. I am the founder and CEO of RealAtom, industry-leading lending as a SAAS technology that empowers commercial real estate lenders like banks, credit unions, and non-banking organizations to make more commercial real...

Insights Apr 22, 2021

How to convert dark big box retail to multi-tenant retail properties or self-storage

Tyler White: Welcome everybody to the RealAtom lender podcast series, where you learn about the lenders on RealAtom's platform and the organizations they represent. My name is Tyler White, RealAtom's head of sales. RealAtom is the industry's number one lending...

Product Apr 21, 2021

SMART WAY TO MANAGE CRE LOAN ORIGINATION AND TEAMS

We've got an appetite for growth. The loan intake platform is a game-changer in terms of our ability to process all our applications efficiently.— Head of CRE Origination, Life Insurance Company RealAtom is a Loan Collaboration and revenue-generating platform used...

Insights Apr 15, 2021

Why CRE finance&brokerage is like the Taxi industry before Uber

Yulia Yanni Hi everyone. I'm Yulia Yanni, CEO and co-founder of RealAtom. We're a technology platform for the commercial real estate lending industry used by banks, credit unions, non-banking lending organizations to make more commercial real estate loans. Today on...

Company Apr 7, 2021

RealAtom Family

Hi everyone! RealAtom is growing fast! We are launching new products, improving the quality of services to our customers, and engaging more and more new clients. All that would not be possible without our brilliant team members and today we...

Insights Apr 1, 2021

Dark Knight of the CRE mortgage industry

Welcome to the 2nd podcast of our new series of podcasts interviewing leading industry experts whom we are privileged to have as clients and advisors. Today, I am pleased to introduce to you Jack Cohen, President & Chief Innovation Officer...

Product Mar 23, 2021

Website Integration: how to get the most out of your investment

Today, RealAtom can integrate with hundreds of applications you already use to automate your existing workflows easily. We made it super easy for you by partnering with Zapier and give you 1000’s integrations at a fraction of the cost. Zapier...

Insights Mar 9, 2021

Taking Advantage of Adding Ground Lease to your CRE Capital Stack

We are excited to announce the launch of our new series of podcasts interviewing leading industry experts whom we are privileged to have as clients and advisors. All of them have been in real estate lending and real estate finance...

Insights Dec 21, 2020

Catch-22 in CRE lending or How to Stop Worrying and Start Closing More Deals

One of the hardest roles in CRE, as in residential real estate, is that of the loan officer. Caught between brokers consumed with arranging deals and the borrowers who shop for them, the loan officer is constantly vying to stay...

Insights Aug 21, 2020

13 books we are reading this summer

For many of us fortunate enough to be able to stay home during the quarantine period books have been a source of calm and wisdom. Our team has selected some of the favorite books that got us through the summer...

Product Jul 7, 2020

Lender Engagement Management

What if you could tell where in the loan process the most lenders drop off or who your most engaged lenders are over a period of time? We always need to have precise information, but during uncertain market conditions, it...

Product Jul 2, 2020

Predict the Market with Our New Analytics Report

We’re excited to announce the launch of our brand new Market Analytics Report. Improve loan pricing with easy access to the most important metrics. RealAtom simplifies commercial loan origination process, empowering brokers and borrowers across the country to market loan...

Insights Jun 19, 2020

Influencers in CRE & FinTech stand for #BlackLivesMatter

Today is Juneteenth. Today we celebrate the end of slavery on this very day back in 1865. At RealAtom, we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and celebrate that day of freedom. As individuals and as a...

Product Jun 2, 2020

New File Sharing system that your clients will love

If you are in the business of originating commercial real estate loans, you’ve probably used multiple technologies to share and manage loan documents. The most common way is to do it as an email attachment. Then there is Box.com, Dropbox,...

Company May 27, 2020

How to use RealAtom (for Free) to fund your CRE loans during the financial crisis

Commercial real estate investors, operators, brokers, and lenders have spent the last 2 months changing their day-to-day work processes, learning to conduct their operations remotely, adjusting to the increased risks related to the market conditions, and adapting their business strategies...

Product Apr 24, 2020

Introducing: Digital onboarding for your CRE clients

You already know RealAtom for its innovations around delivering tailored loan leads straight to your inbox. Many lenders on RealAtom also appreciate the easy process, including Q&A, document collection, submission of quotes and term sheets. But so far, all that...

Company Apr 14, 2020

How Lenders delight their clients

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a stressful experience having to rummage through your emails while going on a fact-finding mission in order to find a loan-related document that your borrower or broker has submitted. And while you are...

Product Mar 30, 2020

Updates to RealAtom Security

We’re pleased to announce that 2-factor authentication (2FA) is now available for all RealAtom users. 2-factor authentication provides an extra layer of security on top of your username and password making it harder for intruders to gain unauthorized access. It...

Company Mar 27, 2020

7 ways RealAtom makes it easy to manage a capital markets debt team

Being a producer and having to manage a team means juggling many responsibilities. As a producer, you source deals and work with borrowers and lenders to close those deals. As a manager, you make sure the team members move their...

Company Mar 19, 2020

Every CRE Company needs a Remote Work Strategy to Thrive

Study after study proves that remote work is the evolution of the workplace that is needed now more than ever. Remote work has been embraced by technology companies, yet it might come as a shock to some of the CRE...

Company Feb 11, 2020

“CRM Is Not Enough,” declares RealAtom in WSJ along with 200 Leading Software Companies

On January 18th, Wall Street Journal published a Pledge by The Platform of Independents, where a group of over 200 companies declared that “Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are no longer enough for the digital era”. The Platform of Independents...

Product Feb 10, 2020

New File Sharing system that lenders love

If you have ever tried to secure a commercial real estate loan, you’ve probably used multiple technologies to share loan documents. The most common way is to do it as an email attachment. Then there are Box.com, Dropbox, even IntraLinks....

Product Jan 6, 2020

Marketing of the loan package

If you are in the business of securing commercial real estate loans, you are either our loyal customer or you’ve heard about RealAtom. We make the loan process efficient and we release new features often based on our customers, mortgage...

Company Dec 20, 2019

2019: All Wrapped Up as a Holiday Gift

With the holidays upon us and the year winding down, the RealAtom team wanted to take a moment to thank you for being a part of our lives and welcoming us into yours. While we certainly don’t need a special...

Insights Sep 10, 2019

Leadership and Innovation in Commercial Real Estate – Four Powerful Women Leading the Charge

Like many industries that have put more women in charge, the commercial real estate industry benefits from an increasing number of female leaders. Their strong interpersonal skills, adaptability, and openness to innovation have led to greater productivity and efficiency in...

Product Sep 9, 2019

Switch from your personal pipeline & analytics to view team content

We are always looking to improve the user experience, and with our new “Switch Accounts” feature, you can now see what your team members are up to. As a user, you will be able to see how the dashboard and...

Product Sep 3, 2019

Manage equity investors via your new capital sources directory

The capital sources directory now hosts information about your equity partners in addition to your lenders. This way you can easily choose from those sources those that do either equity or debt or both. You can still send loan requests...

Product Aug 25, 2019

Secure documents to achieve client’s confidentiality requirements

Whenever sensitive information needs to be shared with lenders it is a good idea to require they opt into a confidentiality agreement. This agreement will help formalize the relationship and keep lenders liable for the safety of the information. You...

Product Aug 19, 2019

Manage all of your business’s contacts in an easy to use directory

There’s a new breed of CRE brokers. They want to have a solution that offers an end to end experience to their everyday business needs. RealAtom has already introduced its Lender Engagement Platform and Loan Automation Software and today we...

Product Aug 12, 2019

Custom folders & fields: Your secret weapon for creating complex loan packages

Since launching custom fields to our beta users, we’ve been amazed by all the unique ways our customers have used this feature to create loan requests for complex projects. From detailing construction projects to bringing loan requests to market 3x...

Product Aug 8, 2019

Finally a single hub to manage online and offline quotes

RealAtom already enables brokers to receive lender quotes in a matrix view online, but what if some of your lenders emailed you a quote and you want to include it in the matrix with the other quotes? No problem! You...

Product Jul 23, 2019

Lender Relationship Management

Drum roll please …. You now have complete visibility into the lenders' engagement with any transaction. Now you have a way to track the level of lenders engagement: who is working on a loan request, who has passed and why. ...

Insights Jul 16, 2019

Looking for loan management platforms for commercial real estate debt brokers? The Pros and Cons

RealAtom is a SaaS technology for the commercial real estate lending industry. With RealAtom, capital markets brokers and lenders improve loan origination and track and nurture their most important relationships. RealAtom centralizes and organizes information and communications, enabling users to...

Product Jul 15, 2019

Memorialize your relationships in notes

The broker hassle never dies. You are constantly on the phone or responding to emails. Your spiral notebook is filled with notes about every deal and every lender you’ve worked with. It really helps you move the deal forward. Every...

Product Jul 12, 2019

Pipeline Enhancements

In June we announced our easy-to-use, efficient and functional pipeline reports. Since then we have received very positive feedback from our users. This month we have enhanced the pipeline with new features including: the ability to assign deals, to close...

Product Jul 8, 2019

New in Lender Directory

Last month, we released our highly-touted updates to the lender directory, enabling brokers to review lender contact information, detailed lending criteria, and custom tags, ushering in a new generation of relationship management. Debt sourcing is all about real-time relationships, and...

Product Jul 5, 2019

An easy way to search through past conversations in chat

As you know one of the really cool and popular features on the platform is a real-time chat. Brokers and lenders request and share a lot of information in chat messages. Now, we made it really easy for our users...

Company Jul 2, 2019

How RealAtom is simplifying work of commercial mortgage brokers

While the rest of the commercial real estate (CRE) industry is becoming more data-driven and digitized, the commercial loan process remains outdated, unreliable, and slow. With hundreds of emails sent, tens of versions of spreadsheets tweaked, and countless missed or...

Product Jun 19, 2019

Loop teammates into conversations

As you know, chats with lenders is one of the most popular features on the platform. You can chat at any time, in real time with a lender regarding any transaction. A new addition to the chats is an option...

Product Jun 19, 2019

Top Secret feature – Historical Market Analysis

Next time you are pricing the deal you can open up the Pipeline, and filter it by geography, property type, and loan type then simply export the report to Excel. You will now see how these loans were priced by...

Product Jun 17, 2019

Pipeline status report

To give you a better holistic view of your loans we have created a Pipeline view section. The report is very intuitive and easy to read and navigate. The Pipeline report comes in two views, Board view, and Table view....

Product Jun 10, 2019

Streamlined submission to lenders

You have asked and we listened! We have made loan package submission even more streamlined. Now. when you want to send a loan package to lenders you are in full control and you do it with few clicks. As you...

Product May 28, 2019

Advanced permission controls

As your company grows, the challenge of controlling access to your data across the organization gets more and more complicated. As more folks gain access to the platform, you're likely to have more instances where access needs to be restricted...

Product May 5, 2019

Smart Loan Package Creation

The loan package application is dynamic. It depends on the type of property, type of the loan and a purpose of the financing. Each loan package type has a specific set of steps where you can include all information you...

Product Apr 28, 2019

Enhanced Lender Management

Lender directory keeps all your lender contacts organized based on the lending criteria. This is where you also track your lenders’ engagement in relation to any specific deal. First, you’ll notice that the lender directory has been redesigned to match...

Product Apr 10, 2019

Dashboard Filters

The dashboard is your command center. It has 3 main sections: Portfolio summary on the top, your loan pipeline on the right and recent activities (your things to do) on the left. For your convenience, we have added filters to...

Insights Mar 27, 2019

15 CRE influencers you should connect with on LinkedIn and follow on Twitter

Want to stay at the forefront of the latest commercial real estate (CRE) trends? One of the best ways to gain insight into the CRE industry is to hear what top real estate experts say about highly-debated topics and the...

Product Mar 14, 2019

Quote Matrix Automation

You’ve just made progress on a call with a potential lender for your CRE loan. You have at least two follow-up tasks left before moving on to the next lender including: Updating the deal in your Excel document or in...

Insights Mar 5, 2019

CRE Trends in the Washington D.C. Area: Office and Multifamily on the Rise

The Washington, D.C. metropolitan area -- including Maryland and Virginia -- has seen its commercial real estate market thrive in recent quarters. The region has quickly become one of the booming markets in the country, rivaling West Coast CRE powerhouses...

Product Mar 5, 2019

Find the loan info you need in “Recent Activity” and “Analytics” sections of the dashboard

You manage lots of important projects in your portfolio - from evaluating potential acquisitions to refinancing existing properties. You get multiple emails from lenders containing questions, quotes, negotiations, term sheets and everything in between. You and your teammates diligently try...

Company Feb 25, 2019

BREAKING: RealAtom was featured on ProductHunt

I am ecstatic to announce that RealAtom was featured on Product Hunt! We hope you will connect with us on ProductHunt and give us your feedback and your support. We believe people are happier and more productive when they can...

Insights Jan 21, 2019

EXPERT OPINION: Richard Lake from Roadside Development on Amazon HQ2 in Arlington VA

Our CRE industry expert interviews conclude (for now!) with Roadside Development LLC's Richard Lake who is looking forward to the positive impacts of Amazon HQ2 on our local DMV marketplace. Check out our video to learn more and hear about their...

Product Jan 9, 2019

How to work with relationship lenders

Lender directory in the cloud: Your relationship lenders managed in a collaboration hub. Unprecedented analytics on lender engagement and the financing process. From the Rolodexes of yesterday to the ever-expanding Excel spreadsheets of today, lender directories are often unorganized,...

Insights Jan 8, 2019

Expert Opinion: Zach Murphy from Pender Capital on housing crisis and affordable housing

Here we get to know Zach Murphy from Pender Capital, a lender that helps combat the housing crisis by working on projects to revitalize older and low-income developments. We'd love to hear about other lending programs geared toward affordable housing!...

Insights Dec 19, 2018

Expert Opinion: William Rich from Delta Associates forecasting trends related to Amazon HQ2 opening in Arlington VA

Next up in our CRE expert interview series is William Rich from Delta Associates who forecasts some industry trends over the next few years. Which asset classes do you expect to be impacted most by the new Amazon HQ2? Comment...

Insights Dec 17, 2018

Expert Opinion: Christian Gorissen interviewing Derrick LaRosa from ResideWorldwide

RealAtom is kicking off a series of video interviews with CRE industry experts, starting with Derrick LaRosa from RESIDE Worldwide! Check out our video to hear his thoughts on #AmazonHQ2 moving to the #DMV and how it may affect...

Product Dec 4, 2018

Introducing Chats

We’re excited to announce that RealAtom Chats is now in open beta and available to all customers! The Chats is a collaboration tool that connects borrowers and lenders in real time — so you can get your loan done! If...

Insights Nov 30, 2018

Opportunity Zones in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland Could Help Investors Save Big on Taxes

Opportunity Zones mark the latest way of helping investors save on taxes, while also aiding to advance the economic fabric of an underdeveloped community. These incentives were developed by the recently-passed Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which...

Insights Sep 26, 2018

Top Blockchain Applications Making Waves in Commercial Real Estate

The commercial real estate (CRE) industry is comprised of many different types of service providers, including property management, brokerage firms, banks, and other types of lenders. When a CRE transaction takes place, there are various operators involved, requiring extensive sharing...

Insights Sep 25, 2018

5 Commercial Real Estate Trends of 2018

Real estate markets in the U.S. are in a state of constant flux and 2018 has proven to be a year of higher selling and buying activity compared to recent years. The last couple of years have been mired with political...

Insights Sep 6, 2018

4 Top Trends Taking Over Multifamily Property Investments

Investing in multifamily properties has made many people rich. Just look at the bios of America’s millionaires and billionaires, and you’ll find many (maybe even most) of them became wealthy through real estate. Although the cat’s out of the bag...

Insights Aug 25, 2018

What Are Bridge Loans and How Do They Work?

Just as a bridge provides the best or most convenient way of getting you over an obstacle, a bridge loan is often the best method of getting you through a real estate transaction. And like a bridge, which is intended...

Insights Jul 10, 2018

15 Books We are Reading This Summer

Summer is in full swing. Longer days and nice weather mean it’s a great time to catch up on your reading list. These are the top 15 most influential books we are reading this summer about commercial real estate, business...

Insights Feb 27, 2017

4 Arguments Why Lending Marketplaces Work for Lenders

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending, also known as lending marketplaces, has become all the rage over the past couple of years. Even in the area of commercial real estate where the stakes are much higher, P2P popularity has soared. Platforms designed for...

Insights Feb 23, 2017

6 Hot CRE Blogs to Bookmark Right Now

Did you know that 2017 is expected to be a big year for commercial real estate? Technological advances, the evolution of office spaces and workplace culture, and changes in financial legislation are all expected to influence the CRE industry. Do you...

Insights Jan 23, 2017

Why Alternative Lending Works

Denial from a traditional lender is not a slammed door for small business owners and commercial investors. The surge in alternative lending has paved the way for borrowers to access essential funds to launch a startup or expand their business....

Insights Jan 16, 2017

Investors Don’t Have to Settle: Here’s How to Find the Best CRE Deals

Experienced investors know there is no magic formula to discovering the best investment deals. There’s no reason to work on deal that doesn’t fit the a lender’s criteria. For Alex Modell, an associate at Maxim Capital Group, sourcing quality investments...

Insights Jan 10, 2017

3 Ways Online Platforms are Connecting Lenders and Borrowers

Traditional lending practices are inefficient in today’s fast-paced business world. The federal regulations designed to protect consumers shut out small businesses while dragging out the lending process for qualified consumers. Online lending platforms address the need for diverse and efficient...

Insights Jan 2, 2017

11 Big CRE Trends to Understand in 2017

Now is an exciting period in the commercial real estate industry. The technology boom that accelerated growth in other industries finally trickled into CRE and the results speak for themselves. Brokers, investors, and developers are using tech to make their...