Austin carries $1.7 billion of CMBS across 81 loans, and the headline from the servicer record is that distress is easing: the filed rate stood at 14.1% as of July 2026, down on a falling trend, with a median DSCR of 1.93 across the book. That is an observation worth holding onto — the measured distress here is moving the right way, not the wrong one. The book sits roughly balanced across sectors, with retail, multifamily and office each around $0.4 billion and hospitality near $0.3 billion.
The maturity calendar is where the weight gathers later rather than sooner. The heaviest load lands in 2031, at $471 million, or 28% of the book, and that tranche currently shows no filed distress. The nearer rungs are lighter — roughly $0.5 billion comes due inside 24 months — but the 2028 slice reads as heavily distressed in the filed record, a reminder that an easing aggregate can still conceal a stressed vintage.
Against the cooling servicer data runs a busier street-level ledger: 34 on-the-ground distress events in the past year, split between 20 store closures and 14 layoff notices totaling 1,484 jobs. The broader labor backdrop remains firm, with unemployment at 3.9% as of August 2026, up just 0.1 point year over year. Among the nine banks tracked here, one is flagged distressed and one sits on early warning — a thin but non-zero signal beneath an otherwise steadying picture.
In Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX, all four signals read elevated, with 4 legs elevated out of four and 6 pairs with both legs elevated across 6 pairs compared, none unadjudicated because a leg is blind and none where the legs disagree. Store closures stand at 19 closures, or 1.77 per 100k jobs, though that leg is elevated by size rather than by rate; layoff notices (WARN) are 13 notices, or 0.09%; bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line is 7.95%, an allocated reading the call report cannot confirm for most of the dollars; and securitized loans in special servicing are 10 loan records, or 12.91% of the balance read, this on the trust's slice rather than the whole loan.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
19 closures | 1.77 per 100k jobs | 29 of 392 | 231 of 392 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
13 notices | 0.09% | 51 of 382 | 176 of 382 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
|
| 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 |
$1.25bn | 7.95% | 36 of 393 | 80 of 393 | elevated
allocated 2026-06-30
|
| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
10 loan records | 12.91% | 18 of 335 | 40 of 335 | elevated 2026-09-29
|
In Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX, the elevated distress signals are bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile, at 17.9%, alongside CMBS in special servicing of $221.0mm representing a 12.9% share of this metro's CMBS balance; CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line totals $1.25bn, with assets at those lenders of $0.40bn. The share of bank CRE needing no branch-deposit allocation reads 5.6%, and the bank CRE lent into this metro is $15.74bn, while legs agreeing stands at 4; the reading for signals reading elevated is unavailable as a separate figure.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Capital Bank TX | 33.1% | 105% total 130%
|
🔒 | 0.77% |
| Frost Bank TX | 12.0% | 123% total 208%
|
🔒 | 0.74% |
| Prosperity Bank TX | 6.1% | 171% total 228%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| The First National Bank Of Bastrop TX | 97.4% | 182% total 239%
|
🔒 | 0.19% |
| First Texas Bank TX | 69.0% | 162% total 270%
|
🔒 | 0.67% |
| Verabank, National Association TX | 16.8% | 166% total 253%
|
🔒 | 0.96% |
| Broadway National Bank TX | 13.7% | 176% total 244%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| International Bank Of Commerce TX | 6.2% | 215% total 236%
|
🔒 | 0.90% |
| Horizon Bank, Ssb TX | 89.8% | 254% total 420%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Plainscapital Bank TX | 14.5% | 255% total 369%
|
🔒 | 0.54% |
| Frontier Bank Of Texas TX | 100.0% | 231% total 444%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Southstar Bank, S.s.b. TX | 28.6% | 155% total 214%
|
🔒 | 1.19% |
| Third Coast Bank TX | 11.9% | 236% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.43% |
| Round Top State Bank TX | 30.8% | 148% total 215%
|
🔒 | 0.25% |
| R Bank TX | 78.9% | 256% total 418%
|
🔒 | 2.76% |
| Ozona Bank TX | 58.2% | 174% total 237%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Citizens National Bank TX | 46.2% | 237% total 302%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Susser Bank TX | 15.3% | 243% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.44% |
| Classic Bank, National Association TX | 16.4% | 125% total 228%
|
🔒 | 2.29% |
| First United Bank And Trust Company OK | 4.6% | 280% total 344%
|
🔒 | 1.37% |
| Cornerstone Capital Bank, Ssb TX | 2.2% | 147% total 176%
|
🔒 | 0.15% |
| Benchmark Bank TX | 14.7% | 254% total 308%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Security State Bank & Trust TX | 10.3% | 266% total 346%
|
🔒 | 3.45% |
| Primebank Of Texas TX | 40.9% | 236% total 366%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First National Bank Texas TX | 1.9% | 206% total 240%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| Central National Bank TX | 17.9% | 274% total 351%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Extraco Banks, National Association TX | 1.4% | 149% total 201%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Citizens State Bank TX | 22.2% | 268% total 326%
|
🔒 | 4.98% |
| Rio Bank TX | 4.1% | 242% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Southside Bank TX | 2.2% | 289% total 324%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Security Bank Of Texas TX | 16.0% | 231% total 283%
|
🔒 | 2.88% |
| The Moody National Bank TX | 3.6% | 278% total 364%
|
🔒 | 1.18% |
| Texas Regional Bank TX | 9.3% | 295% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.02% |
| Jefferson Bank TX | 1.0% | 251% total 352%
|
🔒 | 1.04% |
| Hancock Whitney Bank MS | 0.0% | 146% total 229%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| Falcon International Bank TX | 0.7% | 285% total 352%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Lockhart Bank TX | 98.8% | 365% total 510%
|
🔒 | 0.16% |
| American Bank Of Commerce TX | 45.3% | 365% total 507%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Sage Capital Bank, TX | 33.7% | 329% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The First National Bank Of Sonora TX | 7.1% | 327% total 439%
|
🔒 | 2.28% |
| Schertz Bank & Trust TX | 5.8% | 345% total 467%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Alliance Bank Central Texas TX | 4.7% | 302% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.02% |
| Southwestern National Bank TX | 2.8% | 321% total 540%
|
🔒 | 0.34% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Lockhart Bank | $196M | 365% total 510%
|
0.16% | 🔒 |
| R Bank | $422M | 256% total 418%
|
2.76% | 🔒 |
| First Texas Bank | $401M | 162% total 270%
|
0.67% | 🔒 |
| The First National Bank Of Bastrop | $318M | 182% total 239%
|
0.19% | 🔒 |
| Primebank Of Texas | $116M | 236% total 366%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Frontier Bank Of Texas | $482M | 231% total 444%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Horizon Bank, Ssb | $1.0B | 254% total 420%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
Yes — on the figures this platform can see, Austin's banks have ample capacity relative to the CMBS maturing in the window. The wall of $484.2mm across 23 loans compares with local bank room, after those draws, of $3.61bn, a Wall-to-room ratio of 0.13; before committed draws the ratio is 0.09 against room before committed draws of $5.26bn. Committed construction draws of $2.05bn absorb a meaningful share of that headroom, and the picture rests on 43 qualifying local banks, with 11 excluded from the calculation, so the room is a proxy for lending footprint rather than a measurement. Ranked 184 out of 275 metros counting from the most strained, Austin sits less strained than the typical metro, and its distressed share of this metro's CMBS, at 12.9%, bears watching even as total CMBS balance here stands at $1.71bn.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPT | -3.8% | -2.0% | 95.9% | -4.1% | 2026-07-30 |
| MAA | -6.7% | -3.1% | 95.0% | -3.9% | 2026-07-29 |
| UDR | -5.4% | -5.8% | 97.0% | -5.5% | 2026-07-27 |
Over the most recent 365, the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX record shows 19 store closures and 13 WARN layoff notices, with 1,397 jobs on those notices — a figure that is a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but add no jobs. The cRE-related bankruptcies reading of 159 is a state proxy covering the states where this metro's collateral sits rather than a metro-native count, so it should not be read as activity inside the metro. Figures for cRE-related bankruptcies by filing location within the metro are not available.