Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood carries $1.6 billion of CMBS across 92 loans, and the strain is concentrated rather than broad. Office sets the pace with a 35.0% distress rate — a share of loans in special servicing or 60-plus days delinquent that sits three times the 11.3% national office mark. Retail runs hot too, at 18.1% against 2.7% nationally, while multifamily, the metro's largest book, prints 12.3% versus 7.6%. Hospitality and self-storage register no distress at all.
The maturity wall is loaded well out. The heaviest concentration lands in 2031, where $482 million — 30% of the book — comes due, and that vintage currently carries no distress. The nearer years are the ones to watch on the filed record: 2027 shows a 29.1% distress rate against a smaller balance.
For all the office pressure, the trend is moving the right way. Distress in the filed record has been falling, down to 13.4% as of July 2026, with median DSCR at 1.63. The on-the-ground tape is more active — 29 distress events over the past year, spanning 10 store closures and 19 layoff notices touching 2,714 jobs — even as metro unemployment held at 3.4%, down four-tenths of a point from a year earlier.
In Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, CRE distress is broadly elevated across all four measured feeds. Store closures are elevated (8 closures; 0.83 per 100,000 jobs) and WARN layoff notices total 18 (0.23% of the metro’s employment). Bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line stands at $6,280.6mm (25.56% of allocated metro CRE), and securitized loans in special servicing hit 7 rows (12.23% of the trust’s slice). All six paired readings agree on elevation, with no disagreements or quiet pairs. Notably, the store-closure leg is elevated by size rather than by rate — the metro ranks 49th of 392 by count but 280th by rate, meaning its stress signal is driven by market scale, not per-unit intensity.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
8 closures | 0.83 per 100k jobs | 49 of 392 | 280 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 |
18 notices | 0.23% | 39 of 386 | 104 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 |
$6.28bn | 25.56% | 9 of 393 | 13 of 393 | elevated
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 |
7 loan records | 12.23% | 24 of 335 | 41 of 335 | elevated 2026-07-29
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In Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, the elevated distress signals are bank distressed CRE (with distressed lender CRE at $6.28bn and bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile reading of 11.5%), CMBS special servicing (special servicing UPB of $201.0mm, representing 12.2% of metro UPB), and real-economy signals closures and warn (8 store closures and 18 WARN notices in the last year). The overall convergence score is 4, with distressed bank assets at 20.3 (billion) and bank CRE allocation share at 43.2%. The metric is deemed material, with total bank CRE at $24.58bn. Regarding readings that cannot be obtained: the specific dollar amount of total metro CMBS UPB is not provided, and the count of CMBS loans in special servicing is available (7) but is not a dollar-based distress signal. No other absence is noted; all key indicators cited above are directly readable from the data.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merchants Bank Of Indiana IN | 90.2% | 252% total 283%
|
🔒 | 2.96% |
| First Merchants Bank IN | 33.5% | 183% total 243%
|
🔒 | 0.59% |
| The National Bank Of Indianapolis IN | 94.7% | 195% total 330%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Financial Bank OH | 8.1% | 169% total 215%
|
🔒 | 0.91% |
| Star Financial Bank IN | 35.1% | 139% total 222%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Greenfield Banking Company IN | 100.0% | 159% total 274%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| Home Bank Sb IN | 100.0% | 115% total 155%
|
🔒 | 1.09% |
| The North Salem State Bank IN | 84.8% | 146% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.45% |
| Lake City Bank IN | 9.8% | 209% total 294%
|
🔒 | 0.14% |
| Horizon Bank IN | 15.8% | 235% total 331%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| Citizens Bank IN | 100.0% | 202% total 270%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Farmers Bank & Trust Co. IN | 18.2% | 224% total 284%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Mutual Savings Bank IN | 100.0% | 171% total 293%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Citizens State Bank Of New Castle, Indiana IN | 21.3% | 108% total 222%
|
🔒 | 0.12% |
| Hendricks County Bank And Trust Company IN | 100.0% | 151% total 306%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Centier Bank IN | 7.5% | 265% total 318%
|
🔒 | 1.52% |
| Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company KY | 4.9% | 248% total 359%
|
🔒 | 0.20% |
| Union Savings Bank OH | 3.1% | 128% total 128%
|
🔒 | 0.21% |
| State Bank IN | 95.9% | 281% total 408%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| The Peoples State Bank IN | 23.3% | 207% total 268%
|
🔒 | 0.29% |
| Union Savings And Loan Association IN | 15.0% | 110% total 165%
|
🔒 | 1.67% |
| Cfbank, National Association OH | 13.3% | 279% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.53% |
| Jackson County Bank IN | 11.6% | 275% total 410%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| Security Federal Savings Bank IN | 1.7% | 174% total 252%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| Northwest Bank PA | 0.0% | 109% total 145%
|
🔒 | 1.53% |
| The Farmers Bank, Frankfort, Indiana IN | 39.8% | 310% total 450%
|
🔒 | 0.40% |
| Community First Bank Of Indiana IN | 18.3% | 333% total 489%
|
🔒 | 0.13% |
| United Fidelity Bank, Fsb IN | 6.8% | 430% total 434%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| First Bank Richmond IN | 4.4% | 304% total 374%
|
🔒 | 2.72% |
| American Bank Of Freedom MO | 2.4% | 381% total 440%
|
🔒 | 1.30% |
| Cibm Bank IL | 2.1% | 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% | 🔒 |
Yes — on the figures available, bank capacity in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN looks adequate rather than stretched. The metro carries $295.3mm of maturing CMBS across 23 loans against $1.51bn of room after committed draws, a wall-to-room ratio of 0.20, which is LEVEL WITH the median of 0.20, so this metro is as strained as the typical ranked metro; before committed draws are deducted the ratio is 0.08 against room_before_committed of $3.63bn. It ranks 142 of 270, counting from the MOST strained — a LOWER rank number means MORE strain, and the band is slack, with 31 banks qualifying and 4 banks excluded here; the exclusion-artifact caveat applies though explained_by_exclusion is false. Note the standard limits: the $1.62bn CMBS figure is the maturing debt this platform can see, not the metro's whole maturity load, and room is a proxy built on deposit footprint, so every ratio is an upper bound on how much of that wall local banks would have to absorb.
In Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN over the trailing 365, the ground-level record shows 10 store closures and 19 warn notices, with 2,714 jobs affected — a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs. On the CRE side, the reading is 3 cre bankruptcies, though this 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, and is not a metro-native count.