Beyond Inspections: Why Lenders Need Construction Loan Monitoring Software...
Inspection software has become table stakes for lenders. It validates construction progress, provides documentation, and reduces the risk of overpayment. But as construction loan portfolios grow more...
View ArticleHow Lenders Unlock End-to-End Visibility with Loan Lifecycle Management
In our recent webinar, Winning More with Less: Unlocking End-to-End Visibility to Drive Smarter Growth from Origination to Asset Management, Built’s senior solutions engineer Ali Ludwig explored how...
View ArticleHow CRE Lenders Gain an Edge with Risk Management Dashboards
Lenders are generating more loan and portfolio data than ever. Much of this data remains locked in outdated spreadsheets and legacy systems, creating blind spots that slow approvals, weaken compliance,...
View Article13 Best Practices to Modernize Construction and Real Estate AP
In construction and real estate finance, accounts payable (AP) is a strategic lever for cash flow management and project success. Every vendor payment must align with contracts, draw schedules, and...
View ArticleMastering Construction Loan Activity Tracking in Built: A Guide for Modern...
In construction and commercial real estate lending, precision is the foundation of profitability and compliance. However, many lenders still rely on manual, error-prone processes, with a single...
View ArticleHow Remote Project Monitoring Transforms Construction Loan Oversight
For lenders and loan administrators, ensuring project progress is on track is critical to mitigating risk management and keeping funding on schedule. While on-site inspections have long been the...
View ArticleWhy More Lenders Are Investing in Construction Disbursement Software
The construction landscape is shifting fast, and it’s putting new pressure on lenders. With more projects to finance, tighter margins, and growing regulatory oversight, the old ways of managing...
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Best Procore App Marketplace Partners and Integrations (2025)
Procore is a dominant force in construction management software, but its true power is unlocked through its extensive ecosystem of partners and integrations. The Procore App Marketplace is a gateway...
View ArticleReal-Time Risk Management for Construction Loan Portfolios: Closing the Blind...
Construction loans remain one of the riskiest segments in commercial real estate finance. The latest delinquency data from Cred-IQ underscores this reality: FDIC-insured CRE loans hit a 1.70%...
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Proactive Portfolio Management: A Deep Dive into Built’s Four Core Risk...
Construction lending is a complex and high-stakes sector. It demands constant vigilance over project data, resource management, and capital allocation to maintain portfolio performance and reduce...
View Article1099-NEC Reporting in Construction: What Lenders and Developers Need to Know
For lenders and owner–developers, managing Form 1099-NEC reporting is a significant challenge, since the flow of capital across projects collides with federal income tax compliance. Each tax year,...
View ArticleConstruction Loan Risk Assessment: 3 Blind Spots to Fix
For construction lenders, loan risk assessment has always been the most precise area of commercial real estate (CRE) lending. With market volatility, rising material costs, and fierce competition...
View ArticleBest Construction Loan Management Software for Lenders in 2025
Construction finance has never been more complex. Neither has the expectation for speed. In 2025, successful construction lenders can’t afford to rely on generic Loan Origination Systems (LOS) or...
View ArticleSame-Day Funding: How Lenders Use Built’s AI Draw Agent to Accelerate Every...
Across the lending industry, speed continues to be a challenge. Even with modern draw software, reviews still take days, capital sits idle, and loan operations teams continue to battle growing volumes...
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Inside the AI Draw Agent: How It Actually Speeds up Every Review Step
Everyone’s talking about AI in construction lending, but few explain how it works. When a lender achieves same-day funding or cuts draw review time by 95%, the obvious question is What’s happening...
View ArticleFall Release Recap: What’s New in Construction Loan Administration
Introducing new AI capabilities that eliminate manual work, improve accuracy, and keep data in sync across systems. These enhancements reflect Built’s ongoing investment in AI, helping lenders...
View ArticleFall Release Recap: What’s New in Construction Loan Administration+
Introducing a smarter, more connected draw management experience powered by AI and built for collaboration. These updates streamline draw processing, strengthen compliance, and give lenders deeper...
View ArticleFall Release Recap: What’s New in Deal Management
New AI-powered workflows and data enhancements help lenders reduce manual data entry, strengthen underwriting accuracy, and unlock deeper insights across their portfolios. Deal Management now offers...
View ArticleCMBS Lending in 2025: Market Momentum, Rising Distress, and Where Built Fits In
The CMBS market is entering one of its most complex periods in a decade. Issuance is accelerating sharply, credit pressure is building, delinquency rates are rising, and a major wave of maturities is...
View ArticleAI in CRE Finance: 5 Lessons From the Industry’s Early Movers
Commercial real estate lenders are facing a challenging trifecta: tightening spreads, intensifying competition, and elevated credit and capital pressures. As more private credit platforms enter the...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of an HBF Loan Administrator: How Builders Get Funded
Home Builder Finance (HBF) Loan Administrators are the operational engine for construction portfolios. They manage the entire unit lifecycle: controlling the flow of documentation, collateral, and...
View ArticleWhere Construction Draw Reviews Lose Time and How AI Fixes Each Stage
Construction lending is complex. Reviews are labor-intensive, documentation-heavy, and costly to manage. Loan admins spend 60-80% of their time sorting through draw packages that can include hundreds...
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The Real State of CRE in 2025: What Community Lenders Should Know Now
Headlines paint a chaotic picture of CRE: surging industrial and multifamily, struggling office, and cautiously returning investor appetite. The hard data, however, tells a clearer, less dramatic...
View ArticleWhy LIHTC Projects Often Cost More to Build And What Lenders Can Do to Close...
A comparison highlighted in The Real Deal reveals a striking paradox in Chicago’s development costs: a luxury market-rate tower in Fulton Market is being delivered at roughly $380,000 per unit, while...
View ArticleHow Draws and Payoffs Really Work in Builder Finance (Borrowing Base vs...
Draw management is the workflow lenders feel most intensely in Home Builder Finance, and it’s the workflow builders notice immediately when it slows down. Each draw request triggers a chain of...
View ArticleWhy Construction Loan Compliance Problems Only Show Up During Exams
Compliance failures and construction loan issues develop long before an exam begins. The regulatory process simply applies a level of scrutiny that many internal systems aren’t built to withstand....
View ArticleCollateral Intake: How Lenders Structure and Manage Units in Home Builder...
Home Builder Finance (HBF) operations revolve around the Guidance Line of Credit (GLOC), which is the primary form of financing issued to builders for constructing single-family residences. While...
View ArticleCap Rates May Be Stabilizing — But Risk Is Shifting, Not Disappearing
As the market closes out Q4 2025 and looks ahead to Q1 2026, a familiar signal is beginning to re-emerge: stability. CBRE’s latest U.S. Cap Rate Survey indicates that cap rates across most property...
View ArticlePrivate Credit Portfolio Management Software: Visibility, Risk, and Control...
Real estate-backed private credit and CRE lending portfolios are larger, more complex, and more institutional than ever. Banks, private lenders, and debt funds now manage multi-faceted exposure across...
View ArticleA Practical Mental Model for AI in Lending: From Document Intelligence to...
AI has become table stakes in lending software. Today, nearly every platform markets itself as “AI-enabled,” often using identical language to describe vastly different capabilities. For executive...
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The Checklist Fallacy in Modern Real Estate Lending Operations
Real estate lending teams spend the majority of their operational time in underwriting, due diligence, and asset management. These stages carry the highest concentration of dependencies, handoffs, and...
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Benchmark Draw Operations Smarter And Know Exactly Where to Improve
Operational efficiency in construction lending is often evaluated using internal metrics alone. While most teams track draw speeds and workloads, many still struggle to answer a critical question: Is...
View ArticleWinter Release Recap: What’s New in Construction Loan Administration
This Winter Release introduces new Construction Loan Administration enhancements that help lenders improve consistency, gain clearer insight into draw performance, and reduce manual effort across draw...
View ArticleWinter Release Recap: What’s New in Deal Management
This Winter Release delivers new Deal Management enhancements designed to improve clarity and reduce reconciliation efforts. These updates help lenders and private credit firms manage deal activity...
View ArticleWinter Release Recap: What’s New in Construction Loan Administration+
This release strengthens Construction Loan Administration+ by reducing friction across draw review, funding coordination, and third-party collaboration, helping lenders move faster through each draw...
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Accurate 1099 Reporting Starts Before Reporting Season: A Guide for...
Most construction lending teams treat 1099 reporting as a January task. But by the time reporting season arrives, the data quality problems are already baked in. Accurate 1099 reporting depends...
View ArticleMaximizing ROI with Hybrid Inspection Strategies
For many lenders, draw turn times are no longer limited by underwriting. Instead, they’re constrained by inspections. When inspection reports take days to schedule, complete, and upload, every...
View ArticlePurpose-Built Real Estate Lending Software vs. General Loan Origination Systems
When lenders evaluate real estate loan origination software, the focus usually lands on the front-end workflow: pipeline management, credit decisioning, and compliance. General loan origination systems...
View Article6 Ways Agentic AI Reduces Manual Workload Across Loan Operations
Lending institutions are reaching a critical scaling limit, and manual workloads continue to grow while traditional automation has hit a ceiling. Despite heavy investments in digitization, systems...
View ArticleCommercial Real Estate Development Software: A Buyer’s Guide for Owners,...
If you manage financed development projects, you already know the gap between where your budgets live and where your capital actually moves. Commercial real estate development software exists to close...
View ArticleCRE Market Rebound: Why Operational Readiness Will Separate Winning Lenders...
The lenders that win the next cycle won’t necessarily be the ones with the most capital. They will be the ones that can move fastest, underwrite with confidence, and manage a growing book without...
View ArticleThe Efficiency Ratio Your Lending Operations Team Should Be Tracking, But...
The bank efficiency ratio measures how many cents an institution spends to generate one dollar of revenue, and it belongs in every lending operations conversation, not just earnings calls. Most lenders...
View ArticleAI Is No Longer a Pilot Program. It Is the Operating Model
Across banking, private credit, real estate, and construction finance, AI has crossed a threshold: it’s no longer a technology experiment. It’s now an operational standard. FactSet’s analysis of...
View ArticleConstruction Finance Management Software for Owners and Developers
Most construction finance software was designed for contractors. It manages job costs, tracks payroll, schedules crews, and processes subcontractor billing. These are essential functions for field...
View ArticleBasel III Capital Relief for Operational Risk: What It Means and What to Do Next
Basel III’s Standardized Measurement Approach is reducing how much capital banks must hold against operational risk, and that is genuinely good news. But simpler capital formulas don’t reduce the...
View ArticleWhy Cities Misread Infrastructure-Led Housing Budgets And Lose Units Because...
Large urban housing projects built on constrained sites routinely bundle infrastructure and residential costs into a single headline number, and that bundling is causing cities to measure, manage, and...
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AI as a System of Action: How Banks Should Evaluate Agentic AI for...
AI is quickly becoming a strategic priority in construction lending technology. As more lenders begin exploring AI solutions, many are being met with a wave of vendor claims that can be difficult to...
View ArticleAgentic AI in Lending: The Next Operating Paradigm for Real Estate Finance
Agentic AI in lending is multistep, compliance-safe automation that executes decisions across the entire loan lifecycle. An agentic system perceives context, plans the next action, acts within...
View ArticleWhy Manual Draw Reviews Are Slowing Loan Growth and How AI Automation Fixes It
At some point, every lending operation hits a hard limit. This isn’t because demand slows, but because capacity does. Teams reach a point where no amount of process tuning can push more draws through...
View ArticleHow CRA, LIHTC, and NMTC Are Reshaping Affordable Construction Finance
Affordable construction finance spans the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), and New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC). This ecosystem creates operational complexity...
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