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Challenge:
In the face of a wide-scale downturn in commercial real estate markets, Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Asset Management team faced an increase in the number of high-risk loans and properties in its portfolio.
This increase in high-risk volume stressed the organization’s existing asset management infrastructure. Fragmented data sources, heavy reliance on manual processes, and limited management visibility into the activities of individual asset managers constrained Freddie Mac’s capacity to effectively perform the intensive monitoring and servicing activities required on this segment of the portfolio.
FI helped Freddie Mac develop and implement a solution—the Streamlined Management Analytical and Reporting Tool (SMART)— to fundamentally transform how it performs asset management activities and to increase capacity, quality, and efficiency.
Leveraging FI’s understanding of Freddie Mac’s business and industry practices in portfolio management, we worked with Freddie Mac to define high-level application requirements. From these requirements, FI designed a data model that captured the intricacies of the multifamily business while being scalable and flexible to support the demands of the dynamic industry. With high-level requirements and the data model in place, we followed an agile approach to development, iterating with business users on the application’s interface and functionality.
SMART functionality centers on three core elements:
Since SMART’s first release, it has become core to Freddie Mac’s asset management activities. Freddie currently retains FI to maintain SMART and develop new releases with additional functionality.
The SMART application helps Freddie Mac more effectively manage risk in its portfolio of multifamily loans and properties. Asset managers can quickly identify and prioritize emerging risks, and spend more time on high-value analysis and resolution activities and less time assembling data and performing manual calculations.