Indianapolis carries $1.7 billion of CMBS across 93 loans, and the pressure point here is not the usual suspect. Multifamily is both the metro's largest book, at $583 million, and its most distressed, with 14.8% in special servicing or 60-plus days delinquent against a 7.9% national rate for the sector. That is a meaningful gap, and it sits in the part of the book with the most money on the line. The overall CMBS distress rate stands at 14.2%, with roughly $0.2 billion marked distressed.
The filed record, for its part, is easing: distress reads 14.3% as of July 2026, with the trend falling and a median DSCR of 1.64. The heaviest maturity load is still some way off — $529 million, or 32% of the book, comes due in 2031, and that vintage currently shows no distress. The nearer years are lighter, with about $0.3 billion maturing inside 24 months.
On the ground, the metro logged 41 distress events over the past year — 22 store closures and 19 layoff notices totaling 2,714 jobs. The labor backdrop remains firm, with unemployment at 3.3% as of August 2026, down 0.3 points year over year. For credit desks, the read is clear: watch the apartment book, where the distress is concentrated, and keep the 2031 wall in view even as the near-term record softens.
In Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, 3 legs elevated out of four, with 3 pairs with both legs elevated, 0 pairs with both legs quiet, and 3 pairs where the legs disagree across 6 pairs of legs compared. Store closures read 24 closures, or 2.5 per 100k jobs; layoff notices (WARN) read 20 notices, or 0.25%; bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line read $0, or 0%; and securitized loans in special servicing read 6 loan records, or 13.12%. The bank reading carries the caveat that the dollars are allocated by branch deposits the call report cannot confirm, and the bank-versus-tape pair reads as the securitized paper on these buildings being in trouble while no local lender is carrying it.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
24 closures | 2.5 per 100k jobs | 24 of 392 | 143 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 | 0.25% | 34 of 382 | 93 of 382 | 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 |
$0 | 0% | 354 of 393 | 354 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 |
6 loan records | 13.12% | 29 of 335 | 39 of 335 | elevated 2026-09-29
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In Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, the elevated distress signals are CMBS in special servicing at $220.0mm, equal to 13.1% of this metro's CMBS balance in special servicing, alongside ground-level stress of 24 store closures over one year and 20 WARN notices over one year; the credit side is thinner, with CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line at $0.0mm, a 0.0% share, against bank CRE lent into this metro of $23.96bn and 17.0% bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile, while the share of bank CRE needing no branch-deposit allocation reads 18.7% and assets at those lenders stand at $0.30bn, with 3 legs agreeing.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merchants Bank Of Indiana IN | 94.7% | 252% total 283%
|
🔒 | 2.96% |
| First Merchants Bank IN | 28.1% | 183% total 243%
|
🔒 | 0.59% |
| The National Bank Of Indianapolis IN | 93.6% | 195% total 330%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Star Financial Bank IN | 39.3% | 139% total 222%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Greenfield Banking Company IN | 100.0% | 159% total 274%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| First Financial Bank OH | 5.4% | 169% total 215%
|
🔒 | 0.91% |
| Home Bank Sb IN | 100.0% | 115% total 155%
|
🔒 | 1.09% |
| The North Salem State Bank IN | 85.0% | 146% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.45% |
| Lake City Bank IN | 10.9% | 209% total 294%
|
🔒 | 0.14% |
| Citizens Bank IN | 100.0% | 202% total 270%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Horizon Bank IN | 13.1% | 235% total 331%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| First Farmers Bank & Trust Co. IN | 17.4% | 224% total 284%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Mutual Savings Bank IN | 100.0% | 171% total 293%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Citizens State Bank Of New Castle, Indiana IN | 23.7% | 108% total 222%
|
🔒 | 0.12% |
| Hendricks County Bank And Trust Company IN | 100.0% | 151% total 306%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Centier Bank IN | 7.4% | 265% total 318%
|
🔒 | 1.52% |
| Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company KY | 4.6% | 248% total 359%
|
🔒 | 0.20% |
| Union Savings Bank OH | 3.2% | 128% total 128%
|
🔒 | 0.21% |
| State Bank IN | 95.9% | 281% total 408%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| The Peoples State Bank IN | 23.2% | 207% total 268%
|
🔒 | 0.29% |
| Union Savings And Loan Association IN | 15.8% | 110% total 165%
|
🔒 | 1.67% |
| Cfbank, National Association OH | 13.7% | 279% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.53% |
| Jackson County Bank IN | 10.9% | 275% total 410%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| Security Federal Savings Bank IN | 1.9% | 174% total 252%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| Northwest Bank PA | 0.0% | 109% total 145%
|
🔒 | 1.53% |
| The Farmers Bank, Frankfort, Indiana IN | 43.9% | 310% total 450%
|
🔒 | 0.40% |
| Community First Bank Of Indiana IN | 18.9% | 333% total 489%
|
🔒 | 0.13% |
| United Fidelity Bank, Fsb IN | 7.5% | 430% total 434%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| First Bank Richmond IN | 4.3% | 304% total 374%
|
🔒 | 2.72% |
| American Bank Of Freedom MO | 2.3% | 381% total 440%
|
🔒 | 1.30% |
| Cibm Bank IL | 1.4% | 319% total 421%
|
🔒 | 0.94% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-County Bank & Trust Company | $116M | 148% total 411%
|
3.81% | 🔒 |
| Merchants Bank Of Indiana | $6.8B | 252% total 283%
|
2.96% | 🔒 |
| State Bank | $431M | 281% total 408%
|
0.18% | 🔒 |
| Hendricks County Bank And Trust Company | $74M | 151% total 306%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Home Bank Sb | $88M | 115% total 155%
|
1.09% | 🔒 |
| First National Bank | $68M | 80% total 154%
|
0.59% | 🔒 |
| First Internet Bank Of Indiana | $1.5B | 292% total 318%
|
0.48% | 🔒 |
| The North Salem State Bank | $245M | 146% total 309%
|
0.45% | 🔒 |
For Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, the capacity band reads slack: 31 qualifying local banks against 4 local banks excluded from the calculation, with local bank room after committed draws of $1.38bn measured against $335.5mm of CMBS maturing in the window across 25 loans, a wall-to-room ratio of 0.24 (0.10 before committed draws, $3.48bn of room). The total CMBS balance here is $1.66bn and committed construction draws are $3.74bn, giving a 14.2% distressed share of this metro's CMBS; the metro ranks 134 of 275, counting from the most strained, and 0.24 is LEVEL WITH the median of 0.24. Two caveats bear on any capacity reading: room is a proxy built on deposit footprint, and the wall is CMBS only, so every ratio is an upper bound on how much maturing debt local banks would have to absorb.
Over the most recent 365-day window in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, the record shows 24 store closures that pass the approved-row and ZIP-to-metro matching, alongside 20 WARN layoff notices affecting 2,774 jobs — a figure the source treats as a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute no jobs. On the corporate-distress side, 17 cRE-related bankruptcies are recorded, though this is a state proxy: filings count in the court district where filed or the filer's state rather than where the property sits, so it is not a metro-native count, and coverage changes in the court feeds mean counts before and after the widening are not comparable.