Salt Lake City-Murray runs $683M of CMBS across 40 loans, and the distress rate reads 4.0% as of July 2026 — a number that has been rising in the filed record. That is still a contained figure by national standards, but the direction is the story here, and the composition tells you where the pressure sits. Median DSCR across the book holds at 2.18, and the metro's unemployment rate stands at 3.5% as of July 2026, down 0.2 points on the year — a healthier labor backdrop than most markets carry into a softening credit picture.
Office is the largest book at $326M, and it runs 8.8% distressed — elevated for this metro, though it sits below the 11.3% national office rate. Retail, by contrast, shows no distress against a 2.7% national mark. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2027, when $248M — 36% of the book — comes due, the single largest refinancing test on the calendar here.
The on-the-ground record backs up the softening: seven distress events over the past year, tied to 368 jobs across store closures and layoff notices. Among the metro's 30 banks tracked, six carry distress and two sit on early warning. For a market with this labor profile and a book this size, the read is a contained but rising credit picture with office and the 2027 wall as the two things to watch.
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT is showing a mixed but notable distress picture across the four tracked feeds. The bank CRE leg is clearly elevated, with 18558.4 $mm in noncurrent loans — a 44.98% share of the metro's lent CRE — ranking it 3rd of 393 by count and 4th by rate. Store closures are also elevated (6 closures, ranking 70th of 392 by count), but this is purely a size effect: at 0.86 closures per 100,000 jobs, the metro ranks just 277th by rate, so the reading reflects scale rather than per-unit stress. The other two legs are quiet: WARN layoff notices show only 4 notices (0.05% of employment, rank 113th by count), and securitized CMBS loans in special servicing show 0 rows, a 0.0% rate. Of the six leg pairs, 4 disagree, 1 has both elevated, and 1 has both quiet — with the disagreement typically reflecting structural differences (e.g., store closures hot while WARN is quiet indicates small-operator failures below the filing floor, while bank stress without an employment event suggests lender exposure on a book not tied to local job losses). No blind legs affect this metro's readings.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
6 closures | 0.86 per 100k jobs | 70 of 392 | 277 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 |
4 notices | 0.05% | 113 of 386 | 203 of 386 | quiet 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 |
$18.56bn | 44.98% | 3 of 393 | 4 of 393 | elevated 2026-03-31
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| 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 2026-07-29
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In Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, elevated distress signals include bank-distressed CRE exposure—with "distressed_lender_cre" at $18.56bn and "distressed_bank_assets_bn" at 7.1—and ground-level closures (6 store closures and 4 WARN notices in the past year). A key credit metric, the 90th-percentile bank CRE at-risk share, is 2.8%, while the bank allocation share is 65.9%. However, the CMBS special servicing reading is unavailable as a dollar figure and share—both stated as $0.0mm and 0.0%, respectively—so that channel shows no measurable distress, and no other figures are provided beyond these.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quill Bank UT | 7.8% | 136% total 277%
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🔒 | 4.71% |
| Bank Of Utah UT | 13.7% | 270% total 330%
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🔒 | 0.27% |
| D. L. Evans Bank ID | 1.6% | 130% total 245%
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🔒 | 0.09% |
| Brighton Bank UT | 100.0% | 272% total 462%
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🔒 | 0.30% |
| First Utah Bank UT | 98.4% | 290% total 539%
|
🔒 | 7.07% |
| Northwest Bank ID | 2.6% | 177% total 224%
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🔒 | 5.26% |
| Cache Valley Bank UT | 2.9% | 292% total 449%
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🔒 | 0.01% |
| Sunwest Bank UT | 5.8% | 327% total 467%
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🔒 | 0.49% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Utah Bank | $463M | 290% total 539%
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7.07% | 🔒 |
| Celtic Bank | $2.0B | 11% total 214%
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4.51% | 🔒 |
| Finwise Bank | $259M | 44% total 162%
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9.61% | 🔒 |
| Morgan Stanley Bank, National Association | $9.5B | 22% total 22%
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5.23% | 🔒 |
| Sunwest Bank | $2.2B | 327% total 467%
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0.49% | 🔒 |
| Zions Bancorporation, N.a. | $23.7B | 152% total 239%
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0.33% | 🔒 |
| Ubs Bank Usa, National Association | $1.6B | 14% total 16%
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0.32% | 🔒 |
| Brighton Bank | $171M | 272% total 462%
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0.30% | 🔒 |
No — the reading points to an artifact of coverage rather than a genuine credit shortage. Salt Lake City-Murray, UT carries a 24-month CMBS wall of $320.6mm across 15 maturing loans against regional and community bank room of $32.8mm after committed draws, so wall_to_room stands at 9.77 and ranks 14 of 270 counting from the most strained. But more banks are excluded here (10) than qualify (8), and the read is flagged as explained_by_exclusion: banks whose deposits do not indicate where they lend are dropped from the room, so a metro like this one reads strained while its credit is simply invisible. On the figures available, the local banks this platform can see lack the capacity to absorb the maturing wall, though that reflects who is excluded as much as who is lending.
Over the trailing 365-day window, the ground-level record for Salt Lake City-Murray, UT shows 3 store closures and 4 WARN notices, with 368 jobs affected — the latter a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs. CRE bankruptcies read 0, 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, not a metro-native count.