Cincinnati's CMBS book runs to $1.4 billion across 59 loans, and the strain is concentrated rather than broad. Hospitality carries the metro's highest distress rate at 37.8% — more than six times the 6.1% national mark, a 6.2× gap that leaves no ambiguity about where the pressure sits. Multifamily is not far behind at 36.0%, well above its 7.6% national comparison. Office, by contrast, reads close to par, with a 12.2% distress rate against 11.3% nationally, and retail shows nothing distressed at all versus a 2.7% national rate.
The filed record has been rising, reaching 16.5% as of July 2026. Median DSCR across the book still sits at 1.68, but the direction of the distress line is the number to watch here, not a single quarter's level. On the ground, the metro logged 35 distress events over the past year — a mix of store closures and layoff notices totaling 2,307 jobs — even as the local unemployment rate held at 3.7%, down 1.1 points year over year.
The refinancing calendar puts the heaviest load in 2029, when $375 million comes due — 26% of the entire book — concentrating more of the metro's maturity risk in a single year than any other. That vintage is the one desks tracking Cincinnati should mark first.
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN currently shows 3 of 4 signals elevated — store closures, WARN layoff notices, and securitized loans in special servicing are all hot — while bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line reads quiet. Notably, the 3 pairs both elevated and 3 pairs disagreeing split the six pair readings evenly, with 0 pairs both quiet. The store closures leg is elevated by size, not by rate: it ranks 34th of 392 metros by count but 230th by rate per 100k jobs (1.34 closures per 100,000 jobs), a fork the data flags explicitly. WARN notices rank 34th of 386 by count and 114th by rate (0.2% of employment). The CMBS leg is the strongest per-unit signal: 16.49% of the securitized balance read here sits in special servicing, ranking 21st of 335 by count and 27th by rate. The bank leg, at 0.24% of allocated CRE over the noncurrent line (rank 187th of 393 by count, 319th by rate), remains quiet — but its allocation by branch deposits is a caveat since only 6.8% of dollars sit at single-metro banks. Disagreements here reflect mechanism, not error: closures-hot with bank-quiet reads as "tenants are leaving and no lender balance sheet shows it yet," and WARN-hot with bank-quiet reads as "employment is going before any lender books it." The CMBS-bank split — tape hot, bank cold — points to national capital stress no local lender is carrying. Three pair agreements (closures-WARN, closures-CMBS, WARN-CMBS) all read hot, reinforcing that the stress is real across property-level and employment feeds, even as the lender-side picture lags.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
13 closures | 1.34 per 100k jobs | 34 of 392 | 230 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 |
20 notices | 0.2% | 34 of 386 | 114 of 386 | elevated 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 |
$77.0mm | 0.24% | 187 of 393 | 319 of 393 | quiet
allocated 2026-03-31
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| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
9 loan records | 16.49% | 21 of 335 | 27 of 335 | elevated 2026-07-29
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In Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, the elevated distress signals are concentrated in CMBS special servicing, ground-level closures, and WARN notices. Specifically, the CMBS special servicing UPB is $240.0mm, representing a 16.5% share of metro UPB, with 9 loans in special servicing. Additionally, there are 13 store closures and 20 WARN notices over the past year. However, bank-side distress is not readable: the share of bank CRE at the 90th percentile is 8.6%, total bank CRE is $32.31bn (with a 6.8% allocation), and distressed lender CRE is $77.0mm (distressed bank assets: 0.3). The convergence score is 3, signaling a confirmed phase with leading and realized credit signals firing together.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Financial Bank OH | 42.8% | 169% total 215%
|
🔒 | 0.91% |
| Union Savings Bank OH | 45.3% | 128% total 128%
|
🔒 | 0.21% |
| The North Side Bank And Trust Company OH | 100.0% | 156% total 259%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Republic Bank & Trust Company KY | 8.4% | 125% total 186%
|
🔒 | 0.25% |
| The Harrison Building And Loan Association OH | 100.0% | 107% total 137%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| Valley Central Bank OH | 100.0% | 122% total 184%
|
🔒 | 3.47% |
| First Commonwealth Bank PA | 5.1% | 205% total 260%
|
🔒 | 0.71% |
| The Park National Bank OH | 4.5% | 197% total 270%
|
🔒 | 0.81% |
| Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company KY | 9.6% | 248% total 359%
|
🔒 | 0.20% |
| 1st National Bank OH | 99.4% | 133% total 203%
|
🔒 | 0.17% |
| The Friendship State Bank IN | 41.2% | 113% total 171%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Civista Bank OH | 16.8% | 261% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.63% |
| First State Bank OH | 21.9% | 183% total 201%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| Fcn Bank, National Association IN | 72.5% | 247% total 324%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The Cincinnatus Savings & Loan Co. OH | 100.0% | 201% total 238%
|
🔒 | 0.16% |
| German American Bank IN | 3.3% | 222% total 306%
|
🔒 | 0.21% |
| Central Bank & Trust Co. KY | 11.2% | 261% total 333%
|
🔒 | 0.01% |
| Forcht Bank, National Association KY | 27.8% | 249% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The Merchants National Bank OH | 9.8% | 149% total 240%
|
🔒 | 0.59% |
| Community Savings Bank OH | 63.0% | 136% total 152%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Heritage Bank, Inc. KY | 100.0% | 295% total 403%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First National Bank Of Kentucky KY | 22.6% | 186% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.57% |
| Cfbank, National Association OH | 8.4% | 279% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.53% |
| Farmers & Merchants Bank OH | 9.2% | 240% total 432%
|
🔒 | 1.56% |
| Community Trust Bank, Inc. KY | 0.2% | 165% total 206%
|
🔒 | 0.39% |
| The Farmers & Merchants State Bank OH | 0.6% | 231% total 374%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Peoples Exchange Bank KY | 0.7% | 246% total 359%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Riverhills Bank OH | 100.0% | 493% total 567%
|
🔒 | 0.15% |
| Lcnb National Bank OH | 68.4% | 386% total 492%
|
🔒 | 0.23% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Central Bank | $70M | 122% total 184%
|
3.47% | 🔒 |
| Fifth Third Bank, National Association | $33.6B | 68% total 106%
|
0.77% | 🔒 |
| 1st National Bank | $54M | 133% total 203%
|
0.17% | 🔒 |
| The North Side Bank And Trust Company | $367M | 156% total 259%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| U.s. Bank National Association | $50.7B | 57% total 70%
|
1.12% | 🔒 |
| First Financial Bank | $5.0B | 169% total 215%
|
0.91% | 🔒 |
| Spring Valley Bank | $64M | 102% total 165%
|
0.24% | 🔒 |
| Lcnb National Bank | $1.1B | 386% total 492%
|
0.23% | 🔒 |
Yes — on these figures Cincinnati's banks appear to have ample capacity. Against $257.4mm of CMBS maturing within 24 months, the 29 qualifying banks show $2.69bn of room before committed draws and $1.82bn after, giving a wall-to-room of 0.14 (0.10 before committed draws) — below the median of 0.20, so this metro is LESS strained than the typical ranked metro, at 167 of 270 counting from the most strained. Two caveats temper the read: the wall is CMBS-only, the maturing debt this platform can see rather than the metro's whole maturity load, and 4 banks are excluded here whose deposits do not indicate where they lend, so the room is a proxy for lending footprint rather than a measurement of it.
Over the trailing 365 days in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro, the locally matched records show 15 store closures and 20 WARN notices, with the notices touching 2,307 jobs affected — a figure that is a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs. CRE-likely bankruptcy filings read 0, though that figure is a STATE PROXY — bankruptcy filings carry the filer's state, not the property's location, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count. Note also that closures are matched ZIP -> CBSA and only APPROVED rows count (a pending, machine-extracted row is not yet a closure), and that this mirrors the Metro Pulse page, not the convergence board, which applies neither filter and counts higher.