Jacksonville carries $941M of CMBS across 48 loans, and the filed distress rate has been rising — 6.8% as of July 2026. That is a modest book by national standards, but the direction in the servicer record is what commands attention here, even as the metro's median DSCR holds at 1.96.
The largest sector is retail at $281M, and it is clean: 0.0% distressed against a national retail rate of 2.6%. The pressure, such as it is, sits elsewhere in the book — office carries an 11.1% national rate and hospitality 6.2%, benchmarks against which Jacksonville's smaller exposures trade. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029, when $238M comes due, a quarter of the entire book.
On the ground, the metro logged 32 distress events over the past year — 19 store closures and 13 layoff notices, touching 1,065 jobs — against a local unemployment rate of 4.8%, up 0.4 point year over year. For a book this size, that is a real-economy signal worth tracking alongside the servicer data.
In Jacksonville, FL, all four signals are elevated out of four, with 6 pairs with both legs elevated, 0 pairs with both legs quiet, 0 pairs where the legs disagree, and 0 pairs that cannot be read because a leg is blind, across 6 pairs of legs compared. On store closures the reading is 18 closures, or 2.66 per 100k jobs; on layoff notices (WARN) it is 21 notices, or 0.13%; on bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line it is $627.7mm, or 3.98%; and on securitized loans in special servicing it is 5 loan records, or 7.01%. Note that the bank figure is an allocation by branch deposits rather than a confirmed placement, and the securitized figure covers the trust's slice of the balance rather than the whole loan.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
18 closures | 2.66 per 100k jobs | 31 of 392 | 133 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 |
21 notices | 0.13% | 32 of 382 | 152 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 |
$627.7mm | 3.98% | 53 of 393 | 165 of 393 | elevated
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 |
5 loan records | 7.01% | 36 of 335 | 62 of 335 | elevated 2026-09-29
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In Jacksonville, FL, the distress signals that read elevated include CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line at $627.7mm, CMBS in special servicing at $66.0mm, or 7.0% of this metro's CMBS balance in special servicing, alongside real-economy signals (store closures and WARN notices). Bank-side stress is thinner: bank CRE lent into this metro totals $15.78bn, with bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile at 10.6%, and 3.0% of bank CRE needing no branch-deposit allocation, while assets at those lenders stand at $0.00bn. The legs agreeing reading is 4. The phase is early.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everbank, National Association FL | 78.7% | 169% total 175%
|
🔒 | 1.03% |
| Ameris Bank GA | 10.8% | 263% total 319%
|
🔒 | 0.12% |
| Hancock Whitney Bank MS | 1.7% | 146% total 229%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| Florida Capital Bank, National Association FL | 72.6% | 228% total 318%
|
🔒 | 0.24% |
| Cogent Bank FL | 11.1% | 162% total 276%
|
🔒 | 0.32% |
| First Port City Bank GA | 39.0% | 190% total 377%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Primesouth Bank GA | 12.3% | 196% total 333%
|
🔒 | 1.74% |
| Capital City Bank FL | 2.3% | 122% total 193%
|
🔒 | 0.40% |
| Southeastern Bank GA | 14.6% | 157% total 223%
|
🔒 | 0.08% |
| Seacoast National Bank FL | 1.0% | 230% total 325%
|
🔒 | 0.57% |
| The Claxton Bank GA | 39.0% | 230% total 366%
|
🔒 | 3.03% |
| Pineland Bank GA | 8.6% | 214% total 341%
|
🔒 | 0.10% |
| Barwick Banking Company GA | 38.1% | 292% total 575%
|
🔒 | 0.54% |
| Colony Bank GA | 2.8% | 278% total 392%
|
🔒 | 0.49% |
| Cypress Bank & Trust FL | 2.7% | 252% total 418%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Central Bank FL | 14.5% | 398% total 588%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everbank, National Association | $8.0B | 169% total 175%
|
1.03% | 🔒 |
| Florida Capital Bank, National Association | $244M | 228% total 318%
|
0.24% | 🔒 |
Yes — on the evidence available, Jacksonville's banks look more than able to absorb the visible maturity wall. The CMBS maturing in the window stands at $264.8mm across 15 loans against local bank room, after those draws, of $4.27bn, giving a wall-to-room ratio of 0.06 (or 0.05 before committed draws), which falls in the slack capacity band and ranks 224 out of 275 from the most strained. That said, the calculation rests on 16 qualifying local banks while 8 are excluded from the calculation, and the maturing figure covers only CMBS debt, so the ratio is an upper bound on the share local banks would need to take rather than a full measure of the metro's refinancing need.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAA | -3.2% | -1.7% | 94.7% | -0.9% | 2026-07-29 |
Over the last 365 days, Jacksonville, FL has recorded 18 store closures and 13 WARN layoff notices affecting 1,065 jobs on those notices, a figure that is a floor since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute no jobs. The cRE-related bankruptcies reading of 55 is a state proxy rather than a metro-native count, since filings are attributed to the filing district or the filer's state rather than the property's location, so it should not be read as activity specific to Jacksonville.