San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara carries $6.4 billion of CMBS across 99 loans, and the filed record is moving the right way: the distress rate stood at 8.0% as of July 2026, down over the run. A median debt-service coverage ratio of 2.33 speaks to a book that, in aggregate, is covering its payments with room to spare. Office is the metro's dominant exposure at $5.1 billion, yet just 1.4% of it is distressed — a fraction of the 11.3% national office rate. The small retail book, at $0.3 billion, shows no distress against a 2.7% national mark.
The pressure point sits on the calendar. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2027, with $1.4 billion coming due — and 25.9% of that vintage is already distressed, the sharpest concentration in the schedule. Beyond it, the runway clears: the $1.1 billion maturing in 2030, $0.9 billion in 2031, and $0.8 billion in 2034 all carry no distress at present. Near-term, $1.7 billion matures within 24 months.
The on-the-ground signal runs hotter than the securitized book. The metro logged 153 distress events over the past year — 128 layoff notices touching 12,199 jobs, plus 25 store closures — even as the unemployment rate eased to 4.1% in July 2026, down 0.6 point year over year. On the bank side, the exposure is thin: two lenders tracked, none distressed, one flagged as early warning.
All four of this metro's stress legs are reading high right now — that's 4 of 4 signals elevated, and all 6 pairwise comparisons agree hot, with 0 quiet and 0 disagreeing.
The strongest warning comes from layoff notices: WARN filings ran at 177 notices, or 1.16% of the metro's 1,011,902 employed persons — that's the metro ranking 4th by count and 9th by rate out of 386 metros, a genuinely stressed reading, not a size effect.
Store closures are also elevated, but here the size caveat matters: 13 closures over the trailing 365 days clears the flat threshold (rank 34th of 392 by count) yet sits below the median on rate, at 1.26 closures per 100,000 jobs (rank 242nd). So that leg is on the list because San Jose is big, not because it's stressed per unit of itself.
Bank CRE distress is elevated too: $3,095.4 million over the noncurrent line against $26,560.4 million allocated to the metro, an 11.65% rate that ranks 21st by count and 52nd by rate of 393 metros. A caveat applies here — the allocation is by branch deposits, which the call report can't confirm for most of the book.
The securitized tape shows 6 rows in special servicing against a $6,551.0 million current balance, an 8.58% rate, ranking 28th by count and 53rd by rate of 335 metros. That one is measured at the property, not allocated, so it's the tightest read of the four.
In short: widespread distress, with the WARN leg the most rate-driven and the closures leg the most size-driven of the four.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
13 closures | 1.26 per 100k jobs | 34 of 392 | 242 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 |
177 notices | 1.16% | 4 of 386 | 9 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 |
$3.10bn | 11.65% | 21 of 393 | 52 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 |
6 loan records | 8.58% | 28 of 335 | 53 of 335 | elevated 2026-07-29
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In San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA, elevated distress signals include bank-distressed CRE, CMBS special servicing, store closures, and WARN notices. Bank-distressed CRE stands at $3.10bn, with 17.1% of bank CRE at risk (90th percentile), while CMBS special servicing UPB is $562.0mm, equal to 8.6% of metro UPB. Additionally, there were 13 store closures and 177 WARN notices over the past year. The reading is unavailable for distressed bank assets, which are listed as 0 (no dollar figure provided), and the number of CMBS loans in special servicing is 6 but without a stated dollar amount. The overall phase is confirmed at "peak," with the convergence score at 4.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ctbc Bank Corp. (Usa) CA | 26.6% | 214% total 252%
|
🔒 | 2.90% |
| Evertrust Bank CA | 32.2% | 211% total 253%
|
🔒 | 0.44% |
| Pinnacle Bank CA | 75.9% | 228% total 409%
|
🔒 | 1.52% |
| First Commercial Bank (Usa) CA | 19.0% | 163% total 191%
|
🔒 | 1.96% |
| Safra National Bank Of New York NY | 1.9% | 102% total 102%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Fremont Bank CA | 5.7% | 217% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.43% |
| First Bank MO | 1.0% | 184% total 273%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| State Bank Of India (California) CA | 12.3% | 276% total 327%
|
🔒 | 1.91% |
| Open Bank CA | 3.5% | 255% total 458%
|
🔒 | 3.02% |
| Gbc International Bank CA | 13.5% | 269% total 379%
|
🔒 | 0.12% |
| Everbank, National Association FL | 0.1% | 169% total 175%
|
🔒 | 1.03% |
| Metropolitan Bank CA | 12.7% | 340% total 421%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| United Business Bank CA | 10.5% | 402% total 555%
|
🔒 | 0.48% |
| Golden Bank, National Association TX | 6.9% | 327% total 505%
|
🔒 | 2.27% |
| West Coast Community Bank CA | 6.5% | 362% total 474%
|
🔒 | 0.58% |
| Poppy Bank CA | 4.5% | 360% total 557%
|
🔒 | 2.15% |
| Commercial Bank Of California CA | 1.7% | 470% total 592%
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🔒 | 0.02% |
| Mechanics Bank CA | 0.8% | 340% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.30% |
| Exchange Bank CA | 0.0% | 225% total 255%
|
🔒 | 0.59% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinnacle Bank | $482M | 228% total 409%
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1.52% | 🔒 |
| Avidbank | $1.1B | 265% total 325%
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1.35% | 🔒 |
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA screens tight: maturing_bal of $1.66bn against $395.2mm of room_after_committed gives a wall_to_room of 4.19 — 19 of 270, counting from the MOST strained. That ratio is an upper bound, since the wall is CMBS-only while room reflects just 19 banks_qualifying (with 12 banks_excluded_here), and it improves only to 3.59 before committed draws. Note that this is not explained by exclusion (explained_by_exclusion is false), unlike many high-ratio metros, so the strain may be real rather than an artifact of invisible national lenders.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVB | — | +4.6% | 96.6% | +4.3% | 2026-07-30 |
| ESS | — | +4.4% | 96.8% | — | 2026-07-30 |
In San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA over the trailing 365 days, the on-the-ground reading shows 25 store closures and 128 WARN notices, with the affected-employee count at a floor of 12,199; separately, CRE-likely bankruptcies total 3, but that figure 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.