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Commercial Real Estate Credit —
Huntsville, AL
The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · AL
The read
$535M of CMBS across 29 loans. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2031 ($222M, 41% of the book). Distress is flat in the filed record — 0.0% as of 2026-07. 2 on-the-ground distress events in the past year (55 jobs).
Overview
CMBS
Submarkets
Local Banks
Jobs & Demand
On The Ground
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The CMBS properties our stress model flags here, plus recent store closures and layoffs. Stressed is a wider net than distressed — the distressed figure above counts only loans already in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, while these dots also include performing loans facing maturity or coverage pressure. Property dots sit at the center of their ZIP code, not the building — they show where stress concentrates, not which asset. Closures and layoffs are pinned to address where we have it. Open any dot to the building and the loan behind it →
Huntsville's Book Stays Clean, With the Weight Pushed Out to 2031
Huntsville carries $535 million of CMBS across 29 loans, and on the filed record it is quiet: the distress rate sits at 0.0% as of July 2026, flat through the period. Median DSCR of 1.84 reads like a market that is covering its debt service, and the two local banks in view show no distressed exposure and no early-warning flags. This is a small, orderly book.
The pressure, such as it is, lands late. The heaviest maturity load falls in 2031, where $222 million — 41% of the entire book — comes due, dwarfing the $0.1 billion wall over the next 24 months. The near years are light and clean, with 2028, 2029 and 2033 each carrying roughly $0.1 billion and none of it distressed. For now the servicer-declared record gives desks nothing to work.
Off the tape, the on-the-ground signal is modest: two distress events over the past year — one store closure and one layoff notice totaling 55 jobs. The broader labor backdrop is firm, with unemployment at 3.0% as of August 2026, up 0.5 point year over year, and office-using employment of 65,822, down 0.4% over the same stretch. The read here is a market holding steady, with its real test deferred to the start of the next decade.
Written 2026-10-18
CMBS Distressed UPB
under $1M / 0.0%
in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$106M
Banks HQ’d Here (stressed)
0 / 2
Bank Early-Warning
0 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
1
Layoff Notices (1y)
1 / 55 jobs
0.03% of metro employment
CMBS Loans / UPB
29 / $535M
Unemployment · Aug 2026
3.0%
+0.5pp yr
Office-Using Jobs · 2024
65,822
-0.4% yr
How much CRE distress is there in Huntsville, AL right now?
Across Huntsville's four distress feeds, none reads as elevated: store closures run at 0.48 per 100k jobs, layoff notices (WARN) at 0.02%, bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line total $177.1mm at a 3.55% rate, and securitized loans in special servicing stand at 0 loan records, a 0% rate. The pair comparison counts 6 pairs of legs compared, all of them pairs with both legs quiet, with 0 pairs where the legs disagree, 0 pairs with both legs elevated, and 0 pairs that cannot be read because a leg is blind; legs elevated out of four is 0. Two readings carry qualifications worth noting: the bank figure is allocated rather than observed directly, since only 18.4% of these dollars sit at banks that lend in one metro and need no allocation, and the closures rate rests on a size normaliser rather than a matched population.
The figures behind this answer
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
1 closures | 0.48 per 100k jobs | 284 of 392 | 327 of 392 | quiet trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
1 notices | 0.02% | 218 of 382 | 220 of 382 | quiet 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 |
$177.1mm | 3.55% | 120 of 393 | 180 of 393 | quiet
allocated 2026-06-30
|
| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
0 loan records | 0% | 220 of 335 | 220 of 335 | quiet 2026-09-29
|
6 pairs compared
0 both elevated
6 both quiet
0 disagreeing
0 unreadable — a side is blind
0 of four legs elevated
one metro, four independent feeds, each on its own denominator
124 of 447 metros have at least one blind leg and 54 are blind on all four. Those 54 are the same metros the board's map cannot place and the metro resolver cannot name: one ZIP-to-CBSA crosswalk boundary, showing up three ways.
Elevation is computed on the COUNT, over a flat threshold, which is a size filter. New York is 2nd of 392 by store closures and 264th of the same 392 by closures per job — both true, and which one you lead with decides what the reader believes.
Where two legs disagree, that is usually a fact about WHICH mechanism is running, not an error in either feed and not a worse metro.
A leg with no denominator, or whose numerator cannot be measured, reads LOW and means nothing. Each leg publishes a measurement state (allocated, floor, measured, no denominator, no rate, not measurable) for that reason.
Store closures: divided by 207,510 jobs
— all metro jobs, QCEW annual average — a SIZE normaliser, not a matched population: the feed spans retail, food service and pharmacy and no single QCEW sector covers it. The MATCHED read sits beside it as this leg's second reading (trailing 365 days to today).
Layoff notices (WARN): divided by 276,142 employed
— employed persons, BLS LAUS, not seasonally adjusted (trailing 365 days to today).
Bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line: divided by $4,986.2 mm
— bank CRE allocated to this metro by branch deposits (2026-06-30).
Securitized loans in special servicing: divided by $535.0 mm
— current balance on the non-pari-passu rows of this tape — the trust's slice, not the whole loan, on both sides of the ratio (2026-09-29).
Written from the figures above · CBSA 26620 · stress_metro · last changed 01 Nov 2026
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Which distress signals are elevated in Huntsville, AL, and which cannot be read?
In Huntsville, AL, the CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line reads $177.1mm, with bank CRE lent into this metro at $4.99bn and 18.4% of bank CRE needing no branch-deposit allocation, while bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile stands at 46.6% and CMBS in special servicing at $0.0mm, or 0.0% of this metro's CMBS balance in special servicing. Assets at those lenders read $0.00bn and legs agreeing read 0, and the signals reading elevated is empty; the phase is watch, with an isolated signal rather than a convergence, and no bank appears over the noncurrent line while the reading on the share of bank CRE needing no branch-deposit allocation is available only as the stated percentage above.
The figures behind this answer
- CMBS in special servicing
- $0.0mm
- … as a share of this metro's CMBS balance
- 0.0%
- Bank CRE lent into this metro
- $4.99bn
- … at risk at the 90th percentile
- 46.6%
- CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
- $177.1mm
- Assets at those lenders
- $0.00bn
- … share needing no branch-deposit allocation
- 18.4%
- Legs agreeing
- 0
- Phase
- watch
- CMBS loans in special servicing
- 0
- Distressed banks
- 0
- Store closures (past year)
- 1
- WARN notices (past year)
- 1
an isolated signal, not a convergence
little to no distressed CRE dollars behind the signals
signals are present but neither credit-material nor ground-heavy
Written from the figures above · CBSA 26620 · geo_metro_signals · last changed 01 Nov 2026
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Jobs & Demand — the labor market under the collateralWatch it change →
Every other zone on this page reads the credit — what the loan is doing.
This one reads the demand underneath it. Office jobs pay office rent;
office rent services the office loan. When the jobs go, the DSCR follows — but not for another year or two.
That lag is the whole point of looking here.
Unemployment · Aug 2026
3.0%
+0.5pp yr
Last 24 months
1.9%3.3%
Monthly metro unemployment (BLS LAUS) — the freshest labor signal there is,
about six weeks behind. Read the direction, not the level: a 4% metro that is rising and a 6% metro that is
falling are not telling you the same thing.
Jobs by CRE-relevant sector · 2024
Annual employment by sector (BLS QCEW, 2024; 207,510 jobs in the metro).
QCEW lags — it is the structural read, not the current one, and we pair it with the monthly unemployment above on purpose.
Office-using sums five supersectors; where BLS withholds any one of them for
disclosure, we show nothing rather than a number we know is too low — so a missing sector here means
“suppressed at the source,” not “zero.”
Sector Heat — CMBS distress rate by property type (metro vs national)See the loans behind the bar →
This metro's CMBS runs 0.0% distressed where its own property mix predicts 4.6% — $24M less than this book would carry at the rate each property type runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted and excluding this metro. The gap is measured; the cause is not.
No CMBS sector data for this metro.
Elimination — does the gap survive a control?
Each row re-prices this metro's book on a finer cell — its own property types, then those types split by loan size, then by vintage — always at the rate that cell runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted. A gap that shrinks toward zero is explained by the control; one that stays has ruled it out. What is measured is what survives, not a cause.
property mix alone
-4.6pp
… and loan size held fixed
-4.4pp
the gap is still there with loan size held fixed too
… and vintage held fixed
-3.0pp
the gap is still there with vintage held fixed too
The largest single contributor is Office: 3 loans, $91M, running 0.0% where the same type runs 11.1% elsewhere — worth 1.9pp of this metro's own rate.
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, distress within eachSee what’s maturing →
$106M — 20% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already distressed.
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Realized distress is FLAT — 0.0% now (2026-07), +0.0pp over the year.
Same definition as the cards above — distressed means in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, dollar-weighted — on a different clock. The cards are today’s tape; this is the disclosed history panel, quarter by quarter, so you can read direction rather than level. Trusts file monthly, so a quarter is usually well covered within weeks of opening and the newest one shown is normally the current one; it is withheld only when its filed book falls below 60% of recent quarters.
Share of the metro’s CMBS in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, by quarter — a firmer, backward-looking read. A loan under 1.0x DSCR that is still paying is not counted here.
Submarket Heat — where in the metro the distress sitsOpen the submarket →
The top three submarkets hold $384M of the metro's $535M; each bar's colored share is its distress rate.
Bank Door — what the local bank sector could absorbSee it on every loan’s exit read →
$106M of CMBS matures here within two years.
The 18 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly
$296M more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is
0.36× that room.
The median metro sits at 0.13×.
Regional Bank Room
$296M
After Committed Draws
$135M / −54%
Maturing ÷ Room
0.36×
Banks In Footprint
18 / 0 at the line
The room above is already part-sold. Construction lending is a promise drawn
down over two or three years, and the undrawn part is an obligation the bank cannot decline while the borrower performs
— every one of those dollars lands in the same CRE book the 300% line governs. These banks
have $187M of construction committed and not yet
advanced, of which $161M
comes out of the room above, leaving $135M,
with 3 banks
whose entire remaining room is spoken for.
A bank with no room contributes zero here, never a negative one — capacity does not net
across balance sheets — so $26M of what has
been promised is not deducted at all, because there is nothing left to deduct it from. On today’s
capital that is funding already contracted which would cross the line as it draws.
SR 07-1 draws a second line at 100% of capital for construction and land:
1 of 18
is past it on drawn balances alone, and
10 more cross it
once their own commitments fund.
Counted — 18 regional & local CRE lenders
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First National Bank Of Pulaski TN | 32.7% | 193% total 305%
|
🔒 | 0.14% |
| Bank Independent AL | 27.6% | 243% total 328%
|
🔒 | 0.04% |
| Bryant Bank AL | 12.0% | 200% total 269%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Trustmark Bank MS | 2.3% | 237% total 298%
|
🔒 | 0.17% |
| North Alabama Bank AL | 100.0% | 202% total 322%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Evabank AL | 6.8% | 116% total 213%
|
🔒 | 0.35% |
| River Bank & Trust AL | 2.8% | 159% total 276%
|
🔒 | 0.31% |
| Cb&s Bank, Inc. AL | 4.9% | 204% total 267%
|
🔒 | 0.94% |
| Citizens Bank & Trust AL | 9.7% | 160% total 288%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Jackson Bank, Inc. AL | 11.3% | 195% total 261%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Firstbank TN | 1.3% | 269% total 386%
|
🔒 | 0.97% |
| Bank Of Frankewing TN | 9.5% | 173% total 248%
|
🔒 | 5.76% |
| First Metro Bank AL | 3.0% | 168% total 232%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Peoples Independent Bank AL | 6.1% | 182% total 230%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Peoples Bank Of Alabama AL | 2.2% | 215% total 299%
|
🔒 | 0.56% |
| Local Bank AL | 19.4% | 214% total 262%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Smartbank TN | 1.6% | 290% total 461%
|
🔒 | 0.10% |
| Story Bank Dba Story Financial Partners MS | 1.1% | 244% total 366%
|
🔒 | 0.79% |
Not counted — 17 banks with deposits here
These hold deposits in this metro but are left out of the capacity above, because for them deposit location stops indicating where they lend — or they do not lend CRE at all. Real money that could refinance here is deliberately not counted.
no CRE book — CRE under 100% of capital — not a CRE lender
Regions Bank AL · Pnc Bank, National Association DE · Wells Fargo Bank, National Association SD · The Huntington National Bank OH · Truist Bank NC · Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · Fifth Third Bank, National Association OH · Premier Bank Of The South AL · First State Bank Of The South, Inc. AL
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
Pinnacle Bank TN · First Horizon Bank TN · United Community Bank SC · Southstate Bank, National Association FL · Renasant Bank MS · Woodforest National Bank TX · Servisfirst Bank AL
booked here — books nearly all deposits to one branch — a charter address, not a footprint
Merit Bank AL
* Two ratios, two perimeters.
The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital —
construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 07-1 draws its
300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on.
Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on
its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and
still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
How to read this. It is not whether any particular loan can refinance — a borrower also reaches
national banks, life companies, agencies and debt funds. It is how much of this metro’s maturing volume the local
bank sector could absorb if it were the only door.
Banks are placed by deposit share (FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2026) — a proxy for
where they lend, not a measurement; call reports carry no collateral geography. Room = 3× total risk-based capital less CRE held
(SR 07-1, the capital base the rule names — not book equity), from Q2 2026 call reports, apportioned by that share.
Committed construction comes from FFIEC Schedule RC-L as filed at 2026-06-30 —
the undrawn half of loans already written, which the balance sheet above does not show.
Banks in more than 5 states, single-branch bookers and banks that do not lend CRE are excluded —
315 banks holding $263.8B of national capacity not counted here.
Local Lenders — banks headquartered here, worst CRE noncurrent firstUnlock each bank’s early-warning flag →
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merit Bank | $207M | 207% total 361%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| North Alabama Bank | $66M | 202% total 322%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
* Two ratios, two perimeters.
The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital —
construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 07-1 draws its
300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on.
Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on
its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and
still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
Banks are matched to their HQ metro (a proxy for footprint). Noncurrent CRE = CRE-balance-weighted blend of multifamily / nonresidential / construction noncurrent (distress already arrived). Early Warning is a validated leading signal — the bank’s 30-89 early-delinquency rank among all CRE lenders this quarter, which has predicted ~2.3× forward CRE distress. Per-bank flags are on a plan.
Do the banks lending in Huntsville, AL have the capacity to refinance its maturing CRE?
Huntsville's banks do appear to have the capacity: the CMBS maturing in the window comes to $106.1mm against $134.8mm of Local bank room, after those draws, a Wall-to-room ratio of 0.79 — which sits in the "slack" Capacity band and ranks 64 out of this many metros ranked counting from the most strained. Before committed draws the picture is even roomier, with $295.6mm of Local bank room, before committed draws against that same wall, though $187.0mm of Committed construction draws reduces it. That said, 8 are excluded from the calculation while 18 Qualifying local banks carry the reading, and the Distressed share of this metro's CMBS is 0.0%, so the strain signal is modest rather than acute.
The figures behind this answer
- CMBS maturing in the window
- $106.1mm
- … across this many loans
- 10
- Local bank room, before committed draws
- $295.6mm
- Committed construction draws
- $187.0mm
- Local bank room, after those draws
- $134.8mm
- Wall-to-room ratio
- 0.79
- Rank, most strained
- 64
- … out of this many metros ranked
- 275
- … before committed draws
- 0.36
- Population ranked against
- CMBS maturing within 24 months against regional/community bank room in this metro
- Qualifying local banks
- 18
- … excluded from the calculation
- 8
- Distressed share of this metro's CMBS
- 0.0%
- Total CMBS balance here
- $534.9mm
- Capacity band
- slack
Compared against a median wall-to-room ratio of
0.24 across the ranked metros.
0.79 is ABOVE the median of 0.24, so this metro is MORE strained than the typical ranked metro
64 of 275, counting from the MOST strained — a LOWER rank number means MORE strain
Room is what regional and community banks could still write before the SR 06-26 concentration line, after deducting construction draws already committed. Deposit footprint is a proxy for lending footprint, not a measurement of it.
The most extreme ratios belong to the smallest metros.
The wall is the CMBS balance maturing within 24 months — the maturing debt this platform can see, not the metro's whole maturity load. Every ratio is an upper bound on how much of it local banks would have to absorb.
A high ratio is as often an exclusion artifact as a credit event. Banks whose deposits do not indicate where they lend (nationals, card and charter banks) are excluded from the room, so a metro served mainly by those reads strained while its credit is simply invisible here.
Written from the figures above · CBSA 26620 · capacity_metro · last changed 30 Oct 2026
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On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
2 local distress events in the past year (55 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-08-31
CLOSURE
Huntsville
2026-08-31
LAYOFF
55 jobs · Huntsville
2025-10-17
LAYOFF
86 jobs · Huntsville
2025-10-17
LAYOFF
86 jobs · Huntsville
2025-06-20
LAYOFF
73 jobs · Huntsville
2025-06-20
LAYOFF
73 jobs · Huntsville
2025-02-18
LAYOFF
71 jobs · Huntsville
2025-02-18
LAYOFF
71 jobs · Huntsville
2024-12-20
CLOSURE
Huntsville
2024-12-05
LAYOFF
80 jobs · Huntsville
2024-12-05
LAYOFF
80 jobs · Huntsville
2024-11-15
LAYOFF
158 jobs · Huntsville
2024-11-15
LAYOFF
158 jobs · Huntsville
2024-04-30
LAYOFF
128 jobs · Huntsville
What has actually happened on the ground in Huntsville, AL recently?
Over the trailing 365 window, the on-the-ground activity in Huntsville, AL is thin: 1 store closure, 1 warn notice, and 55 jobs affected, against 0 CRE bankruptcies. Note that the jobs figure is a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs, and the bankruptcy figure is a state proxy rather than a metro-native count (it reflects CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in, not where the property is).
The figures behind this answer
- Store closures
- 1
- WARN layoff notices
- 1
- Jobs on those notices
- 55
- CRE-related bankruptcies
- 0
- Window, in days
- 365
STATE PROXY — a court case counts in its filing district and an SEC 8-K in the filer's state, not where the property is, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count. Each court case is counted once even when both PACER and CourtListener carry it. A court case's state is its filing district; an SEC 8-K or news item carries the filer's state. Coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable.
affected_employees is nullable — notices that state no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs, so this is a floor.
Closures are matched ZIP -> CBSA and only APPROVED rows count (a pending, machine-extracted row is not yet a closure). This mirrors the Metro Pulse page, not the convergence board — the board applies neither filter and counts higher. Layoffs take the same ZIP -> CBSA and review treatment, and a WARN notice counts if it affects >= 10 people or does not state a headcount (a NULL is not 'fewer than 10').
Written from the figures above · CBSA 26620 · geo_events · last changed 18 Oct 2026
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this month, which bank’s early-warning rank crossed into the top quartile, which submarket started turning
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