Dallas-Fort Worth's $6.0 billion CMBS book, spread across 267 loans, is showing distress at 5.5% in the filed record as of July 2026 — a reading that has been rising. Office is both the largest sector and the sorest spot: at $1.7 billion it anchors the book, and 8.4% of it sits in special servicing or 60-plus days delinquent. That rate runs below the 11.1% national office mark, a point of relative resilience, but it is still the metro's heaviest concentration of trouble by a wide margin. Retail, at $1.6 billion, and the $0.8 billion each in hospitality and multifamily round out the exposure.
The refinancing calendar is backloaded. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029, when $1.7 billion — 28% of the book — comes due, and that vintage is already carrying a 4.9% distress rate. Nearer-term walls are lighter: $0.8 billion matures in 2027, and the 2030 and 2031 stacks each show no distress on the filed record so far. Median DSCR across the book stands at 1.79.
The on-the-ground signal adds texture the loan tapes don't capture. The metro logged 99 distress events over the past year — 50 store closures and 49 layoff notices — totaling 7,469 jobs. Unemployment sits at 4.4% as of August 2026, up 0.1 point year over year. Among the 51 banks tracked here, 6 read as distressed and another 12 carry early-warning flags.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX shows elevated readings across all four legs — legs elevated out of four is 4, out of six pairs compared with 6 pairs with both legs elevated, 0 pairs with both legs quiet, and 0 pairs where the legs disagree. On store closures the metro records 49 closures, or 1.38 per 100k jobs, though this leg is elevated by size rather than by rate — 10th of 392 by count against 264th of 392 by rate. Layoff notices (WARN) stand at 46 notices, or 0.17%. Bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line is $3.84bn, or 4.55%, an allocated reading. Securitized loans in special servicing come to 19 loan records, or 5.68%, a floor read over 57.9% of the special-servicing rows here, the rest carrying no balance. No legs that cannot be read and 0 pairs that cannot be read because a leg is blind, so the reading is complete.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
49 closures | 1.38 per 100k jobs | 10 of 392 | 264 of 392 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
46 notices | 0.17% | 18 of 382 | 132 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 |
$3.84bn | 4.55% | 15 of 393 | 151 of 393 | elevated
allocated 2026-06-30
|
| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
19 loan records | 5.68% | 9 of 335 | 68 of 335 | elevated
floor 2026-09-29
|
In Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, the elevated distress signals are bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile, reading 18.9%, CMBS in special servicing at $341.0mm, or a 5.7% share of the metro's CMBS balance, plus the real-economy closures and WARN notices; behind the credit side sit six banks holding $15.70bn in assets with $3.84bn of CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line, and the reading for bank CRE lent into this metro is unavailable here as the supporting dollar total for that figure.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Capital Bank TX | 53.2% | 105% total 130%
|
🔒 | 0.77% |
| Frost Bank TX | 25.3% | 123% total 208%
|
🔒 | 0.74% |
| Prosperity Bank TX | 18.6% | 171% total 228%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| First Financial Bank TX | 23.3% | 107% total 167%
|
🔒 | 1.05% |
| The American National Bank Of Texas TX | 96.4% | 251% total 375%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| Plainscapital Bank TX | 43.3% | 255% total 369%
|
🔒 | 0.54% |
| Citizens National Bank Of Texas TX | 94.0% | 215% total 416%
|
🔒 | 2.19% |
| Pegasus Bank TX | 100.0% | 179% total 218%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Origin Bank LA | 21.7% | 227% total 312%
|
🔒 | 0.83% |
| T Bank, National Association TX | 88.4% | 142% total 394%
|
🔒 | 4.42% |
| Texasbank TX | 63.3% | 223% total 260%
|
🔒 | 0.04% |
| Pointbank TX | 100.0% | 171% total 306%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| Grandview Bank TX | 98.3% | 178% total 262%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| United Texas Bank, National Association TX | 100.0% | 235% total 235%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Susser Bank TX | 58.9% | 243% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.44% |
| Maplemark Bank OK | 89.6% | 222% total 271%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Lakeside Bank TX | 100.0% | 153% total 212%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First National Bank Texas TX | 17.7% | 206% total 240%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| Bankunited, National Association FL | 1.7% | 194% total 243%
|
🔒 | 0.62% |
| Bank Of The West TX | 91.1% | 221% total 384%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Homebank Texas TX | 100.0% | 181% total 294%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| First State Bank TX | 23.2% | 170% total 298%
|
🔒 | 1.44% |
| B1bank LA | 9.5% | 241% total 352%
|
🔒 | 0.84% |
| First United Bank And Trust Company OK | 16.1% | 280% total 344%
|
🔒 | 1.37% |
| Benchmark Bank TX | 81.1% | 254% total 308%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Sanger Bank TX | 73.0% | 104% total 163%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Investar Bank, National Association LA | 12.1% | 204% total 317%
|
🔒 | 0.84% |
| Texas Security Bank TX | 100.0% | 265% total 424%
|
🔒 | 0.66% |
| Alliance Bank TX | 44.7% | 228% total 306%
|
🔒 | 0.84% |
| Legend Bank, N.a. TX | 28.6% | 176% total 249%
|
🔒 | 0.17% |
| Texas Bank And Trust Company TX | 26.1% | 270% total 348%
|
🔒 | 0.60% |
| Third Coast Bank TX | 9.2% | 236% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.43% |
| First National Bank And Trust Company Of Weatherford TX | 49.7% | 215% total 326%
|
🔒 | 5.97% |
| City Bank TX | 10.6% | 239% total 324%
|
🔒 | 0.16% |
| American First National Bank TX | 21.6% | 258% total 487%
|
🔒 | 0.40% |
| Hancock Whitney Bank MS | 0.6% | 146% total 229%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| Commercial Bank Of Texas, National Association TX | 13.8% | 174% total 297%
|
🔒 | 0.14% |
| The Community Bank TX | 100.0% | 158% total 238%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Nbt Financial Bank TX | 100.0% | 258% total 327%
|
🔒 | 2.33% |
| Southside Bank TX | 22.1% | 289% total 324%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Great Plains National Bank OK | 19.6% | 243% total 333%
|
🔒 | 2.30% |
| Lamar National Bank TX | 53.3% | 200% total 291%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Security National Bank Of Omaha NE | 14.1% | 238% total 327%
|
🔒 | 1.96% |
| Shinhan Bank America NY | 13.1% | 257% total 382%
|
🔒 | 0.88% |
| International Bank Of Commerce OK | 3.1% | 127% total 173%
|
🔒 | 0.83% |
| First Bank TX | 16.1% | 219% total 304%
|
🔒 | 1.20% |
| Cornerstone Capital Bank, Ssb TX | 2.0% | 147% total 176%
|
🔒 | 0.15% |
| American Nation Bank OK | 22.3% | 235% total 367%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Guaranty Bank LA | 5.4% | 235% total 325%
|
🔒 | 2.88% |
| Community National Bank TX | 2.2% | 164% total 224%
|
🔒 | 2.52% |
| Stellar Bank TX | 1.5% | 246% total 396%
|
🔒 | 0.59% |
| Austin County State Bank TX | 12.5% | 152% total 263%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| Bank 7 OK | 6.6% | 252% total 301%
|
🔒 | 0.54% |
| Broadway National Bank TX | 1.1% | 176% total 244%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| Commonwealth Business Bank CA | 7.1% | 259% total 453%
|
🔒 | 1.29% |
| Bank Of Whittier, National Association CA | 15.2% | 107% total 228%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The First National Bank Of Granbury TX | 5.0% | 172% total 196%
|
🔒 | 0.43% |
| Liberty National Bank OK | 5.8% | 214% total 300%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Worthington Bank TX | 100.0% | 292% total 428%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Pilgrim Bank TX | 5.8% | 184% total 251%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First State Bank TX | 22.5% | 211% total 316%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Mid Bank & Trust, National Association IL | 1.5% | 271% total 350%
|
🔒 | 0.47% |
| Texas Heritage National Bank TX | 10.3% | 276% total 363%
|
🔒 | 2.37% |
| Open Bank CA | 1.9% | 255% total 458%
|
🔒 | 3.02% |
| Texas Regional Bank TX | 13.1% | 295% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.02% |
| Herring Bank TX | 5.7% | 255% total 335%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| First State Bank TX | 0.9% | 116% total 183%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| R Bank TX | 2.5% | 256% total 418%
|
🔒 | 2.76% |
| Grand Bank OK | 10.5% | 289% total 418%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Liberty Bank OK | 6.4% | 288% total 352%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Security State Bank & Trust TX | 0.5% | 266% total 346%
|
🔒 | 3.45% |
| Texana Bank, National Association TX | 0.2% | 132% total 298%
|
🔒 | 2.70% |
| Trinity Capital Bank Of Texas TX | 100.0% | 379% total 515%
|
🔒 | 0.44% |
| North Dallas Bank & Trust Co. TX | 100.0% | 339% total 470%
|
🔒 | 1.96% |
| Inwood National Bank TX | 100.0% | 325% total 408%
|
🔒 | 0.44% |
| American Bank, National Association TX | 100.0% | 347% total 357%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Spectra Bank TX | 100.0% | 429% total 627%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Texas Republic Bank, National Association TX | 95.0% | 310% total 444%
|
🔒 | 1.55% |
| Harmony Bank TX | 94.5% | 324% total 420%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Dominion Bank TX | 94.0% | 335% total 399%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Pinnacle Bank TX | 82.9% | 352% total 434%
|
🔒 | 0.10% |
| State Bank Of Texas TX | 76.6% | 484% total 484%
|
🔒 | 2.18% |
| One World Bank TX | 76.4% | 380% total 566%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Liberty Capital Bank TX | 69.7% | 372% total 439%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Ciera Bank TX | 65.6% | 356% total 448%
|
🔒 | 1.42% |
| Cattlemens Bank OK | 38.5% | 310% total 457%
|
🔒 | 0.34% |
| Interbank OK | 38.0% | 451% total 470%
|
🔒 | 2.57% |
| Texas Bank TX | 33.3% | 389% total 436%
|
🔒 | 0.36% |
| Community National Bank & Trust Of Texas TX | 29.4% | 350% total 487%
|
🔒 | 0.05% |
| Southwestern National Bank TX | 29.4% | 321% total 540%
|
🔒 | 0.34% |
| American National Bank & Trust TX | 19.0% | 388% total 453%
|
🔒 | 0.36% |
| Valliance Bank OK | 18.8% | 380% total 534%
|
🔒 | 0.86% |
| Blue Sky Bank OK | 18.7% | 349% total 490%
|
🔒 | 3.42% |
| Vantage Bank Texas TX | 18.1% | 314% total 424%
|
🔒 | 1.04% |
| Cendera Bank TX | 16.7% | 310% total 374%
|
🔒 | 0.05% |
| Legacy Bank & Trust Company MO | 13.2% | 483% total 521%
|
🔒 | 1.94% |
| Golden Bank, National Association TX | 12.2% | 327% total 505%
|
🔒 | 2.27% |
| Farmers Bank & Trust Company AR | 11.4% | 365% total 462%
|
🔒 | 1.13% |
| American Bank Of Commerce TX | 8.7% | 365% total 507%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Ubank TX | 5.1% | 489% total 597%
|
🔒 | 0.39% |
| Pcb Bank CA | 3.6% | 304% total 471%
|
🔒 | 0.13% |
| Wallis Bank TX | 3.4% | 419% total 676%
|
🔒 | 1.67% |
| Chambers Bank AR | 2.2% | 302% total 342%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| The First National Bank Of Ballinger TX | 0.0% | 152% total 270%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First National Bank And Trust Company Of Weatherford | $330M | 215% total 326%
|
5.97% | 🔒 |
| T Bank, National Association | $471M | 142% total 394%
|
4.42% | 🔒 |
| Monet Bank | $294M | 29% total 29%
|
37.36% | 🔒 |
| Tbk Bank, Ssb | $860M | 94% total 120%
|
4.94% | 🔒 |
| Tib National Association | $322M | 59% total 70%
|
3.20% | 🔒 |
| Nexbank | $1.5B | 116% total 117%
|
2.55% | 🔒 |
| Citizens National Bank Of Texas | $1.2B | 215% total 416%
|
2.19% | 🔒 |
| State Bank Of Texas | $2.1B | 484% total 484%
|
2.18% | 🔒 |
Yes — the local banks lending in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX appear to have ample capacity. The CMBS maturing in the window is $1.12bn across 71 loans, while local bank room, after those draws comes to $7.48bn, giving a wall-to-room ratio of 0.15 (0.10 before committed draws), well below the median of 0.24 and consistent with a slack capacity band. Qualifying local banks number 104, against 28 excluded from the calculation, so the reading is not merely an exclusion artifact. One caution: the wall is CMBS-only, so the ratio is an upper bound on how much of it local banks would have to absorb.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPT | +1.2% | +0.2% | 95.1% | -0.3% | 2026-07-30 |
| EQR | +0.4% | -1.3% | 95.7% | -2.0% | 2026-04-28 |
| MAA | -2.1% | +0.8% | 95.0% | +0.9% | 2026-07-29 |
| UDR | -1.5% | +0.3% | 96.6% | +0.7% | 2026-07-27 |
Over the trailing 365 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, the record shows 49 store closures and 45 WARN layoff notices covering 7,363 jobs on those notices, a figure that is a floor because notices stating no headcount are counted but add no jobs. The cRE-related bankruptcies reading is 104, though this is a state proxy rather than a metro-native count: filings are attributed to the filing district for court cases and the filer's state for SEC 8-Ks, each court case counted once, and coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable.