The nation's capital carries $9.2 billion of CMBS across 238 loans, and office does the heavy lifting on both sides of the ledger. At $4.5 billion it is the largest book in the metro, and at a 20.4% distress rate it is also the most troubled — nearly double the 11.1% national office mark. That single sector sets the tone for Washington, and the trend in the filed record is pointing the same way: distress stood at 10.9% as of July 2026 and has been rising.
The maturity wall tells a layered story. The heaviest load lands in 2029, with $2.4 billion — 26% of the book — coming due at a benign 2.2% distress rate. The nearer vintages are where the strain already sits: $1.3 billion maturing in 2027 carries a 42.5% distress rate, and the $1.1 billion due in 2028 runs at 11.9%. Against that, the metro's median DSCR of 1.81 gives the broader book some cushion.
The pressure is visible on the ground as well. The past year brought 201 distress events across the metro, and the layoff notices alone account for 11,073 jobs. For now the labor backdrop is firmer than the credit picture — unemployment was 3.8% as of August 2026, down 0.4 points year over year — but the office book remains the number to watch here.
In Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, all four feeds read elevated right now: store closures at 95 closures, or 3.84 per 100k jobs; layoff notices (WARN) at 113 notices, or 0.33%; bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line at $5.79bn, or 9.81%; and securitized loans in special servicing at 20 loan records, or 10.97%. That gives 4 legs elevated out of four, with 6 pairs with both legs elevated out of 6 pairs of legs compared, 0 pairs with both legs quiet, 0 pairs where the legs disagree, and 0 pairs that cannot be read because a leg is blind. Note that the count ranks are size-driven — the closure count ranks 2nd of 392 metros while its rate ranks 73rd, the bank figure 10th of 393 by count against 65th by rate — and the bank leg is allocated by branch deposits rather than confirmed by the call report, so the rate reads beside each count are the fairer comparison.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
95 closures | 3.84 per 100k jobs | 2 of 392 | 73 of 392 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
113 notices | 0.33% | 6 of 382 | 62 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 |
$5.79bn | 9.81% | 10 of 393 | 65 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 |
20 loan records | 10.97% | 8 of 335 | 46 of 335 | elevated 2026-09-29
|
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV shows elevated distress across credit and real-economy measures, with signals reading elevated in bank distressed CRE, CMBS special servicing, store closures, and WARN notices: CMBS in special servicing stands at $1.01bn, equal to 11.0% of this metro's CMBS balance, while CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line totals $5.79bn and bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile is 20.6% of the $59.01bn bank CRE lent into this metro, against assets at those lenders of $3.00bn and a share of bank CRE needing no branch-deposit allocation of 21.7%; four legs agreeing places the metro in the peak phase. No reading is available for the count of CMBS loans in special servicing, which is absent from the vetted figures, so that signal cannot be read here.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Union Bank VA | 35.5% | 264% total 363%
|
🔒 | 0.42% |
| Eaglebank MD | 100.0% | 258% total 355%
|
🔒 | 2.20% |
| Industrial Bank DC | 77.1% | 131% total 212%
|
🔒 | 8.38% |
| Primis Bank VA | 33.2% | 188% total 317%
|
🔒 | 3.31% |
| The Freedom Bank Of Virginia VA | 100.0% | 175% total 290%
|
🔒 | 1.85% |
| Bank Of Clarke VA | 50.1% | 195% total 329%
|
🔒 | 1.45% |
| Amalgamated Bank NY | 17.0% | 235% total 239%
|
🔒 | 4.15% |
| Virginia National Bank VA | 43.0% | 226% total 289%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Fulton Bank, National Association PA | 1.5% | 184% total 283%
|
🔒 | 0.79% |
| Fvcbank VA | 98.2% | 284% total 354%
|
🔒 | 0.96% |
| First United Bank & Trust MD | 14.8% | 201% total 285%
|
🔒 | 0.19% |
| The National Capital Bank Of Washington DC | 100.0% | 262% total 327%
|
🔒 | 2.45% |
| Acnb Bank PA | 13.3% | 232% total 333%
|
🔒 | 0.21% |
| Woodsboro Bank MD | 100.0% | 232% total 415%
|
🔒 | 0.16% |
| Jefferson Security Bank WV | 61.6% | 210% total 257%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Middletown Valley Bank MD | 39.9% | 249% total 381%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Potomac Bank WV | 80.3% | 276% total 389%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| City National Bank Of West Virginia WV | 3.0% | 206% total 241%
|
🔒 | 0.30% |
| The Harbor Bank Of Maryland MD | 15.6% | 226% total 313%
|
🔒 | 2.37% |
| Blue Ridge Bank, National Association VA | 3.7% | 255% total 315%
|
🔒 | 0.14% |
| Citizens And Farmers Bank VA | 2.7% | 267% total 304%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Promiseone Bank GA | 18.4% | 284% total 364%
|
🔒 | 1.01% |
| First Bank VA | 6.4% | 283% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Somerset Trust Company PA | 0.8% | 206% total 290%
|
🔒 | 1.51% |
| Farmers & Merchants Bank VA | 0.0% | 155% total 222%
|
🔒 | 0.21% |
| Presidential Bank, Fsb MD | 100.0% | 321% total 336%
|
🔒 | 1.83% |
| Mainstreet Bank VA | 100.0% | 379% total 538%
|
🔒 | 3.26% |
| John Marshall Bank VA | 100.0% | 337% total 439%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Trustar Bank VA | 100.0% | 422% total 499%
|
🔒 | 0.63% |
| City First Bank, National Association DC | 79.4% | 378% total 438%
|
🔒 | 1.20% |
| Old Dominion National Bank VA | 77.0% | 312% total 365%
|
🔒 | 1.52% |
| Shore United Bank, National Association MD | 18.8% | 326% total 436%
|
🔒 | 1.78% |
| Hingham Institution For Savings MA | 10.2% | 525% total 552%
|
🔒 | 1.03% |
| Mvb Bank, Inc WV | 6.6% | 312% total 373%
|
🔒 | 0.25% |
| Carter Bank & Trust VA | 6.3% | 395% total 423%
|
🔒 | 0.84% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Bank | $266M | 131% total 212%
|
8.38% | 🔒 |
| Mainstreet Bank | $1.6B | 379% total 538%
|
3.26% | 🔒 |
| Hsbc Bank Usa, National Association | $1.6B | 7% total 8%
|
15.70% | 🔒 |
| Eaglebank | $4.7B | 258% total 355%
|
2.20% | 🔒 |
| Capital Bank, National Association | $1.5B | 304% total 419%
|
1.82% | 🔒 |
| Bank Of Clarke | $811M | 195% total 329%
|
1.45% | 🔒 |
| Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company | $5.5B | 335% total 424%
|
1.24% | 🔒 |
| City First Bank, National Association | $853M | 378% total 438%
|
1.20% | 🔒 |
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV reads tight: $2.56bn of CMBS matures within the window across 65 loans, against $1.02bn of local bank room after those draws, a wall-to-room ratio of 2.52 — well above the 1.14 before committed draws and the 2.52 that places it 31 out of 275 metros ranked from most strained. The room itself rests on 35 qualifying local banks, with 17 excluded from the calculation, so the capacity picture is partly a footprint artifact rather than a measured credit signal; local banks do not appear to carry the refinancing load alone.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVB | — | -0.2% | 94.5% | -1.5% | 2026-02-05 |
| EQR | +0.2% | +1.7% | 96.3% | +2.8% | 2026-04-28 |
| MAA | +1.1% | +1.7% | 96.1% | +1.8% | 2026-07-29 |
Over the most recent 365 days in the window, the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro recorded 95 store closures, 105 WARN layoff notices and 10,993 jobs on those notices, with 1 cRE-related bankruptcies. The count of jobs on those notices should be read as a floor, since notices that state no headcount are counted but contribute nothing to it, and the cRE-related bankruptcies figure is a state-level proxy rather than a metro-native count, so it reflects where filings occurred rather than where the property sits; no metro-level bankruptcy reading is available.