San Diego carries $3.1 billion of CMBS across 146 loans, and as of July 2026 none of it is distressed — nothing in special servicing, nothing 60-plus days past due. Retail is the largest exposure at $876 million, followed by roughly $0.8 billion of office and $0.6 billion of hospitality, and every one of those sectors sits at a 0.0% distress rate against national marks of 2.7% for retail, 11.3% for office and 6.1% for hospitality. The filed record has stayed flat, with a median DSCR of 2.25 backing up the servicer's read.
The schedule is the thing to watch rather than the current status. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029 at $564 million, with roughly $0.6 billion coming due inside the next 24 months and further clusters of about $0.4 billion each in 2027, 2030 and 2031. All of it is clean today, but this is a book that refinances into the back half of the decade rather than one that has already cleared its hurdles.
Below the loan tape, the on-the-ground count is more active than the zero distress rate suggests: 99 distress events over the past year — 30 store closures and 69 layoff notices totaling 4,220 jobs. Office-using employment stands at 320,602 and is down 3.7% year over year, even as metro unemployment sits at 4.7%, three tenths lower than a year ago. The securitized book is quiet; the labor and street-level signals are not.
In San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, distress signals are clearly elevated across most independent feeds. Store closures run at a rate of 2.01 per 100,000 jobs (20th of 392 metros by count, 168th by rate), while WARN layoff notices show 0.29% of the metro's employment (5th by count, 76th by rate). Bank CRE over the noncurrent line stands at 8.57% of allocated dollars (30th by count, 86th by rate).
However, the securitized loan leg reads 0.0% in special servicing, ranking 220th of 335 metros — this is notably quiet. Of the six possible pairings among the four legs, three show both elevated, zero both quiet, and three disagree. The disagreements are structural: closures hot with the tape quiet reads as retail failing on properties this tape doesn't hold; WARN hot with the tape quiet suggests employers cutting while the securitized book hasn't moved; and bank hot with tape quiet implies lenders are stressed on a portfolio the tape can't see. No adjudication was needed, as no leg is blind.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
26 closures | 2.01 per 100k jobs | 20 of 392 | 168 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 |
144 notices | 0.29% | 5 of 386 | 76 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 |
$1.90bn | 8.57% | 30 of 393 | 86 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 |
0 loan records | 0% | 220 of 335 | 220 of 335 | quiet 2026-07-29
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In San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, the elevated distress signals include bank-distressed CRE (with distressed lender CRE at $1.90bn and 10.1% of bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile), store closures (26 in one year), and WARN notices (144 in one year). The reading for CMBS special servicing is unavailable, as the CMBS special servicing UPB is $0.0mm with a 0.0% share of metro UPB, indicating no CMBS distress is currently measurable.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endeavor Bank CA | 100.0% | 182% total 416%
|
🔒 | 0.54% |
| Calprivate Bank CA | 57.5% | 252% total 431%
|
🔒 | 0.40% |
| Banner Bank WA | 5.9% | 253% total 379%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| First Bank MO | 3.1% | 184% total 273%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Banc Of California CA | 6.6% | 291% total 334%
|
🔒 | 4.24% |
| Balboa Thrift And Loan Association CA | 58.5% | 235% total 238%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Shinhan Bank America NY | 6.8% | 257% total 382%
|
🔒 | 0.88% |
| State Bank Of India (California) CA | 14.1% | 276% total 327%
|
🔒 | 1.91% |
| First Pacific Bank CA | 23.1% | 243% total 395%
|
🔒 | 0.31% |
| Citizens Business Bank, National Association CA | 1.1% | 281% total 406%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Beach Cities Commercial Bank CA | 18.6% | 273% total 633%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| C3bank, National Association CA | 84.9% | 361% total 403%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| California Bank Of Commerce, National Association CA | 22.0% | 313% total 437%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| Poppy Bank CA | 2.7% | 360% total 557%
|
🔒 | 2.15% |
| Mechanics Bank CA | 0.0% | 340% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.30% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balboa Thrift And Loan Association | $101M | 235% total 238%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Endeavor Bank | $433M | 182% total 416%
|
0.54% | 🔒 |
| Calprivate Bank | $1.4B | 252% total 431%
|
0.40% | 🔒 |
| California Bank Of Commerce, National Association | $2.3B | 313% total 437%
|
0.22% | 🔒 |
| Axos Bank | $5.6B | 188% total 194%
|
0.09% | 🔒 |
| C3bank, National Association | $407M | 361% total 403%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Home Bank Of California | $182M | 404% total 582%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Neighborhood National Bank | $139M | 298% total 541%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
The reading for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA is that bank capacity to refinance its maturing CRE looks tight: with 43 maturing loans totaling $643.6mm against regional and community bank room, the wall-to-room ratio is 2.92, which is ABOVE the median of 0.20, so this metro is MORE strained than the typical ranked metro, placing it 21 of 270, counting from the MOST strained — a LOWER rank number means MORE strain. That said, room is a proxy, and here it rests on 15 banks_qualifying against 14 banks_excluded_here, with the caveat that a high ratio is as often an exclusion artifact as a credit event; the wall itself is the CMBS balance maturing within 24 months, not the metro's whole maturity load, so 2.92 is an upper bound on how much of it local banks would have to absorb, and distress is not the driver at a distressed_share of 0.0%.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVB | — | +1.5% | 96.0% | +1.6% | 2026-07-30 |
| CPT | -0.2% | +1.3% | 95.5% | +0.7% | 2026-04-30 |
| EQR | +1.0% | +1.3% | 96.0% | +1.7% | 2026-04-28 |
| ESS | — | +1.5% | 95.7% | — | 2026-07-30 |
Over the trailing 365 days, the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro shows 30 store closures and 69 WARN notices, with 4,220 jobs affected. The jobs figure is a floor, as notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs. On the bankruptcy side, the reading is 3, but 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. It is not a metro-native count.