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Software That Becomes a Growth Engine for Lending Teams
I was recently reviewing feedback from Independent Banker’s annual survey of community bank CEOs outlining the biggest challenges they see heading into 2026. Three of the top four greatest challenges cited by CEOs in the report were “…keeping up with technology needs or advancements, attracting and retaining qualified staff, and increasing loans.” A constant theme ran throughout the responses: community banks must better differentiate themselves. Not...
What We Learned From Listening to Community Lenders This Year
As the year comes to a close, we have been reflecting on conversations with community lenders that shaped our thinking. This year was not defined by one meeting or one perspective. Instead, it was shaped by dozens of conversations with lending teams across roles, institutions, and markets. Because of that, we spent a lot of time listening. And we did so intentionally. Not to sell. Not...
The Deposit Dilemma: Community Banks Shift their Emphasis
If you talk to enough community bank leaders, these days (and we do) you start to hear the same thing: Deposits just aren’t what they used to be. Community banks have always been the heart of local economies. Trusted. Relationship-first. Focused on deposits and consumer needs. But over the past couple of years, the ground has been shifting fast. Between high-yield online accounts, fintechs, crypto,...
Century Health & Housing Capital Partners with LendingStandard for Cutting-Edge SaaS HUD Solution
Century Health & Housing Capital (CHHC), recognized as a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgagee and a servicer for the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), has chosen to partner with LendingStandard for its expertise in multifamily loan origination, underwriting, and processing through its software platform. Dan Jacques, the COO and Managing Director at CHHC, emphasized the company's commitment to providing FHA-insured financing for multifamily and healthcare...
LendingStandard May 2023 Newsletter
LendingStandard Leads the way Again! From automated narratives and HUD/Agency submission packets, to being the only CRE lending platform that supports all CRE loan types from one code base, LendingStandard has many unique attributes to its name. Here is the latest! Within a manual process, it becomes incredibly challenging to manage complex and multiple relationships within the loan. For instance, a single loan with multiple...
How to Identify Lenders that are Best Prepared for the Return of an Active CRE Market
If the US economy had an air-raid siren, it seems it would be wailing right now. Federal monetary policy, ballooning debt, signals of a recession, rising interest rates, record levels of inflation, layoffs, post-COVID remote working arrangements, and many other factors are creating sustained turmoil in the US economy and CRE markets. Generally, this is bad news all around…but could an opportunity lurk in this gloomy...
LendingStandard Rolls Out New CRE SaaS Platform to All Clients
LendingStandard, Inc. Rolls Out New CRE SaaS Platform to All Clients Technology Streamlines Origination Across All CRE Loan Products Platform Increases Processing Efficiency by up to 45 Percent KANSAS CITY, KAN – Jan. 18, 2023 – – Commercial real estate (CRE) lenders now have a single platform to manage origination and underwriting across all their products, a first-of-its-kind solution that modernizes the cumbersome loan process. The...
Hampden Park selects LendingStandard solutions for FHA HUD lending
Kansas City, Kansas — A nationally recognized capital provider and housing consultant has selected an innovative Kansas City startup for its Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Housing and Urban Development (HUD) lending solutions.
LendingStandard launches ‘NextGen’ Multifamily HUD Lending Platform
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Real Estate Investment Tech Podcast
Our CEO and founder Andy Kallenbach was recently a guest on the Startup Hustle podcast. In this episode, Real Estate Investment Tech, host Matt DeCoursey and Andy discuss real estate investment and the value of investment technology. You can listen by clicking below! Listen to the episode here Find more ways to listen
Regions Financial Corporation selects LendingStandard’s multifamily underwriting SaaS platform to reengineer HUD/FHA loan processes
PRESS RELEASE March 30, 2021 Contact: Mark Costa |info@lendingstandard.com (805) 336-5012 For Immediate Release Regions Financial Corporation selects LendingStandard’s multifamily underwriting SaaS platform to reengineer HUD/FHA loan processes Kansas City, Kansas – Regions Financial Corporation selects LendingStandard’s leading-edge underwriting platform to standardize their FHA/HUD financing and enhance their efficiency, quality and loan process transparency. "We are excited to...
Introducing Spotlight: Our Game-Changing Analytics Tool
For the first time in five decades, the Kansas City Chiefs are world champions, and needless to say, our hometown pride is at an all-time high. So, it only seems right to use a football analogy to announce the launch of LendingStandard’s exciting new analytics tool, Spotlight. Chiefs head coach Andy Reid doesn’t just tell Patrick Mahomes to make more completed passes and – bam! –...
Multifamilydebt.com Press Release
PRESS RELEASE January 30, 2020 Contact: Andy Kallenbach |andy@lendingstandard.com (816) 591-5277 For Immediate Release MultifamilyDebt.com to bring instant mortgage options to borrowers and investors Kansas City, Kansas – LendingStandard, the automated loan origination software (LOS) platform for the origination, underwriting and processing of complex multifamily financings, today announced the launch of MultifamilyDebt.com, bringing mortgage options instantly to both...