Albuquerque carries a small, clean CMBS book: $366M across 30 loans, with no declared distress on the figures that matter here. The weight sits in the back half of the decade. The heaviest single maturity year is 2030, which accounts for $115M, or 31% of the book — a concentration that lenders will track long before it comes due.
Retail is the largest sector at $127M, and it reads 0.0% distressed against a national retail rate of 2.6%. That is the headline of this metro: the biggest book is also the cleanest, and it is outperforming the national benchmark rather than tracking it.
The filed record is where the softness shows. The metro logged 7 on-the-ground distress events over the past year — 6 store closures and one layoff notice totaling 51 jobs — against a local unemployment rate of 4.8%, up 0.7 points year over year as of August 2026. It is a modest tally, but it is the live signal to watch in an otherwise uneventful credit picture.
Albuquerque shows 1 of 4 signals elevated: 6 closures at 1.85 per 100k jobs, 1 notices at 0.01%, $304.2mm of bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line at 6.43%, and 3 loan records in special servicing at 4.92%, the last a floor since it rests on 33.3% of the special-servicing rows. Of 6 pairs of legs compared, 3 are both quiet, 0 are both elevated, 3 disagree, and none are unadjudicated because a leg is blind. The elevated closure reading is driven by metro size rather than rate — 76th of 392 by count against 218th by rate — and the store-closure pair with bank CRE reads as tenants leaving before any lender balance sheet shows it.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
6 closures | 1.85 per 100k jobs | 76 of 392 | 218 of 392 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
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| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
1 notices | 0.01% | 218 of 382 | 230 of 382 | quiet trailing 365 days to today
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| bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line share of the CRE lent into this metro that sits at a lender over the blended-noncurrent line |
$304.2mm | 6.43% | 90 of 393 | 110 of 393 | quiet
allocated 2026-06-30
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| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
3 loan records | 4.92% | 52 of 335 | 74 of 335 | quiet
floor 2026-09-29
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| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capra Bank IA | 31.6% | 180% total 233%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Century Bank NM | 19.8% | 161% total 227%
|
🔒 | 2.51% |
| Southwest Capital Bank NM | 31.8% | 232% total 356%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First American Bank NM | 3.7% | 253% total 316%
|
🔒 | 0.52% |
| First National Bank Texas TX | 0.8% | 206% total 240%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| Western Commerce Bank NM | 2.8% | 224% total 272%
|
🔒 | 1.25% |
| First New Mexico Bank Of Silver City NM | 6.6% | 254% total 274%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| United Business Bank CA | 10.4% | 402% total 555%
|
🔒 | 0.48% |
| Citizens Bank Of Las Cruces NM | 1.5% | 372% total 439%
|
🔒 | 0.57% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Capital Bank | $194M | 232% total 356%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Main Bank | $162M | 297% total 509%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
Over the trailing 365 days, Albuquerque, NM has seen 6 store closures and 1 WARN layoff notice covering 51 jobs on those notices, while CRE-related bankruptcies stand at 0 — a state-level proxy rather than a metro-native count. Note that the jobs figure is a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute no jobs.