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Commercial Real Estate Credit —
Albuquerque, NM

The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · NM
The read
$366M of CMBS across 30 loans. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2030 ($115M, 31% of the book). Retail is the largest book ($127M, 0.0% distressed). 7 on-the-ground distress events in the past year (51 jobs).
Overview
CMBS
Submarkets
Local Banks
Jobs & Demand
On The Ground
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The CMBS properties our stress model flags here, plus recent store closures and layoffs. Stressed is a wider net than distressed — the distressed figure above counts only loans already in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, while these dots also include performing loans facing maturity or coverage pressure. Property dots sit at the center of their ZIP code, not the building — they show where stress concentrates, not which asset. Closures and layoffs are pinned to address where we have it. Open any dot to the building and the loan behind it →
A Quiet Book, With the Clock Set for 2030

Albuquerque carries a small, clean CMBS book: $366M across 30 loans, with no declared distress on the figures that matter here. The weight sits in the back half of the decade. The heaviest single maturity year is 2030, which accounts for $115M, or 31% of the book — a concentration that lenders will track long before it comes due.

Retail is the largest sector at $127M, and it reads 0.0% distressed against a national retail rate of 2.6%. That is the headline of this metro: the biggest book is also the cleanest, and it is outperforming the national benchmark rather than tracking it.

The filed record is where the softness shows. The metro logged 7 on-the-ground distress events over the past year — 6 store closures and one layoff notice totaling 51 jobs — against a local unemployment rate of 4.8%, up 0.7 points year over year as of August 2026. It is a modest tally, but it is the live signal to watch in an otherwise uneventful credit picture.

Written 2026-10-27
CMBS Distressed UPB
Not reported fewer than 3 loans are distressed here, too few for the share to be a rate — the book size and loan count above are unaffected
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$99M
Banks HQ’d Here (stressed)
0 / 2
Bank Early-Warning
0 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
6
Layoff Notices (1y)
1 / 51 jobs 0.02% of metro employment
CMBS Loans / UPB
30 / $366M
Unemployment · Aug 2026
4.8% +0.7pp yr

How much CRE distress is there in Albuquerque, NM right now?

For Albuquerque, NM, the distress picture is quiet across the board. None of the four independent feeds register as elevated: store closures sit at 0.31 per 100k jobs, WARN layoff notices at 0.01% of employment, bank CRE over the noncurrent line at a 7.55% rate, and securitized loans in special servicing at a 7.32% rate (a floor, since only 50.0% of special-servicing rows here carry a balance). All six pairwise comparisons between these feeds agree on a quiet reading, with zero disagreement and zero elevated signals. The bank CRE reading is allocated by branch deposits—only 13.6% of the dollars sit at lenders that need no allocation—and the CMBS rate is a floor, but both are measured and neither is elevated. Overall, Albuquerque shows no notable CRE stress across retail closures, WARN notices, bank balance sheets, or securitized lending.

The figures behind this answer
SignalLevel Rate Rank by count Rank by rate Reading
store closures
store closures per 100,000 jobs
1 closures 0.31 per 100k jobs 258 of 392 303 of 392 quiet
trailing 365 days to today
layoff notices (WARN)
workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment
1 notices 0.01% 212 of 386 228 of 386 quiet
trailing 365 days to today
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
$338.3mm 7.55% 84 of 393 103 of 393 quiet
allocated
2026-03-31
securitized loans in special servicing
share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing
4 loan records 7.32% 42 of 335 59 of 335 quiet
floor
2026-07-29
6 pairs compared 0 both elevated 6 both quiet 0 disagreeing 0 unreadable — a side is blind 0 of four legs elevated
one metro, four independent feeds, each on its own denominator
114 of 441 metros have at least one blind leg and 48 are blind on all four. Those 48 are the same metros the board's map cannot place and the metro resolver cannot name: one ZIP-to-CBSA crosswalk boundary, showing up three ways.
Elevation is computed on the COUNT, over a flat threshold, which is a size filter. New York is 2nd of 392 by store closures and 264th of the same 392 by closures per job — both true, and which one you lead with decides what the reader believes.
Where two legs disagree, that is usually a fact about WHICH mechanism is running, not an error in either feed and not a worse metro.
A leg with no denominator, or whose numerator cannot be measured, reads LOW and means nothing. Each leg publishes a measurement state (allocated, floor, measured, no denominator, no rate, not measurable) for that reason.
Store closures: divided by 324,648 jobs — all metro jobs, QCEW annual average — a SIZE normaliser, not a matched population: the feed spans retail, food service and pharmacy and no single QCEW sector covers it. The MATCHED read sits beside it as this leg's second reading (trailing 365 days to today).
Layoff notices (WARN): divided by 428,846 employed — employed persons, BLS LAUS, not seasonally adjusted (trailing 365 days to today).
Bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line: divided by $4,483.5 mm — bank CRE allocated to this metro by branch deposits (2026-03-31).
Securitized loans in special servicing: divided by $355.0 mm — current balance on the non-pari-passu rows of this tape — the trust's slice, not the whole loan, on both sides of the ratio (2026-07-29).
Written from the figures above · CBSA 10740 · stress_metro · last changed 28 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →
Jobs & Demand — the labor market under the collateralWatch it change →
Every other zone on this page reads the credit — what the loan is doing. This one reads the demand underneath it. Office jobs pay office rent; office rent services the office loan. When the jobs go, the DSCR follows — but not for another year or two. That lag is the whole point of looking here.
Unemployment · Aug 2026
4.8% +0.7pp yr
Last 24 months
3.4%5.5%
Monthly metro unemployment (BLS LAUS) — the freshest labor signal there is, about six weeks behind. Read the direction, not the level: a 4% metro that is rising and a 6% metro that is falling are not telling you the same thing.
Jobs by CRE-relevant sector · 2024
Retail trade
42,059 jobs · -0.7% yr
Annual employment by sector (BLS QCEW, 2024; 324,648 jobs in the metro). QCEW lags — it is the structural read, not the current one, and we pair it with the monthly unemployment above on purpose. Office-using sums five supersectors; where BLS withholds any one of them for disclosure, we show nothing rather than a number we know is too low — so a missing sector here means “suppressed at the source,” not “zero.”
Sector Heat — CMBS distress rate by property type (metro vs national)See the loans behind the bar →
Fewer than 3 loans here are distressed, too few for a distress rate to mean anything — so there is no rate to test against this metro's property mix. 0 of 1 property types here run a higher distress rate than the national average for that type (the tick on each bar).
Retail
0.0% metro · 2.6% US · $127M
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, distress within eachSee what’s maturing →
$99M — 27% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already distressed.
2026
$4M · 1 loan · 0.0%
2027
$27M · 4 loans · 0.0%
2028
$67M · 6 loans · 0.0%
2029
$45M · 5 loans · distress not reported
2030
$115M · 6 loans · 0.0%
2031
$88M · 6 loans · 0.0%
2032
$19M · 2 loans · 0.0%
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Too few loans here are distressed for a quarterly rate to be a rate, so no direction is stated. The quarters that can be read are shown below.
Same definition as the cards above — distressed means in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, dollar-weighted — on a different clock. The cards are today’s tape; this is the disclosed history panel, quarter by quarter, so you can read direction rather than level. Trusts file monthly, so a quarter is usually well covered within weeks of opening and the newest one shown is normally the current one; it is withheld only when its filed book falls below 60% of recent quarters.
Share of the metro’s CMBS in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, by quarter — a firmer, backward-looking read. A loan under 1.0x DSCR that is still paying is not counted here.
Submarket Heat — where in the metro the distress sitsOpen the submarket →
The top three submarkets hold $228M of the metro's $366M; each bar's colored share is its distress rate.
Uptown
$99M · 0.0%
Northeast Heights
$66M · 0.0%
North I-25 / Journal Center
$63M · 0.0%
Rio Rancho
$46M · 0.0%
Downtown Albuquerque
$46M · distress not reported
South Valley / Airport
$23M · 0.0%
Midtown Albuquerque
$17M · 0.0%
Albuquerque — North
$7M · 0.0%
Bank Door — what the local bank sector could absorbSee it on every loan’s exit read →
$99M of CMBS matures here within two years. The 9 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly $108M more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is 0.92× that room. The median metro sits at 0.13×.
Regional Bank Room
$108M
After Committed Draws
$62M / −43%
Maturing ÷ Room
0.92×
Banks In Footprint
9 / 2 at the line
The room above is already part-sold. Construction lending is a promise drawn down over two or three years, and the undrawn part is an obligation the bank cannot decline while the borrower performs — every one of those dollars lands in the same CRE book the 300% line governs. These banks have $52M of construction committed and not yet advanced, of which $46M comes out of the room above, leaving $62M, with 3 banks whose entire remaining room is spoken for. A bank with no room contributes zero here, never a negative one — capacity does not net across balance sheets — so $5M of what has been promised is not deducted at all, because there is nothing left to deduct it from. On today’s capital that is funding already contracted which would cross the line as it draws. SR 06-26 draws a second line at 100% of capital for construction and land: 2 of 9 are past it on drawn balances alone, and 1 more cross it once their own commitments fund.
Counted — 9 regional & local CRE lenders
BankDeposit shareCRE / Capital*Room contributedNoncurrent CRE
Capra Bank IA 31.6% 180%
total 233%
🔒 0.00%
Century Bank NM 19.8% 161%
total 227%
🔒 2.51%
Southwest Capital Bank NM 31.8% 232%
total 356%
🔒 0.00%
First American Bank NM 3.7% 253%
total 316%
🔒 0.52%
First National Bank Texas TX 0.8% 206%
total 240%
🔒 0.07%
Western Commerce Bank NM 2.8% 224%
total 272%
🔒 1.25%
First New Mexico Bank Of Silver City NM 6.6% 254%
total 274%
🔒 0.07%
United Business Bank CA 10.4% 402%
total 555%
🔒 0.48%
Citizens Bank Of Las Cruces NM 1.5% 372%
total 439%
🔒 0.57%
Not counted — 16 banks with deposits here
These hold deposits in this metro but are left out of the capacity above, because for them deposit location stops indicating where they lend — or they do not lend CRE at all. Real money that could refinance here is deliberately not counted.
no CRE book — CRE under 100% of capital — not a CRE lender
Bank Of America, National Association NC · Wells Fargo Bank, National Association SD · U.s. Bank National Association OH · Bmo Bank National Association IL · Pnc Bank, National Association DE · Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company NC · Tbk Bank, Ssb TX · First American Trust, Fsb CA
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
Bokf, National Association OK · Umb Bank, National Association MO · Enterprise Bank & Trust MO · Sunflower Bank, National Association TX · Nbh Bank CO · Wafd Bank WA
booked here — books nearly all deposits to one branch — a charter address, not a footprint
Main Bank NM
* Two ratios, two perimeters. The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital — construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its 300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on. Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
How to read this. It is not whether any particular loan can refinance — a borrower also reaches national banks, life companies, agencies and debt funds. It is how much of this metro’s maturing volume the local bank sector could absorb if it were the only door. Banks are placed by deposit share (FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2026) — a proxy for where they lend, not a measurement; call reports carry no collateral geography. Room = 3× total risk-based capital less CRE held (SR 06-26, the capital base the rule names — not book equity), from Q2 2026 call reports, apportioned by that share. Committed construction comes from FFIEC Schedule RC-L as filed at 2026-06-30 — the undrawn half of loans already written, which the balance sheet above does not show. Banks in more than 5 states, single-branch bookers and banks that do not lend CRE are excluded — 315 banks holding $263.8B of national capacity not counted here.
Local Lenders — banks headquartered here, worst CRE noncurrent firstUnlock each bank’s early-warning flag →
BankTotal CRECRE / Capital*Noncurrent CREEarly Warning
Southwest Capital Bank $194M 232%
total 356%
0.00% 🔒
Main Bank $162M 297%
total 509%
0.00% 🔒
* Two ratios, two perimeters. The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital — construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its 300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on. Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
Banks are matched to their HQ metro (a proxy for footprint). Noncurrent CRE = CRE-balance-weighted blend of multifamily / nonresidential / construction noncurrent (distress already arrived). Early Warning is a validated leading signal — the bank’s 30-89 early-delinquency rank among all CRE lenders this quarter, which has predicted ~2.3× forward CRE distress. Per-bank flags are on a plan.
On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
7 local distress events in the past year (51 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-10-04
CLOSURE
Kap's Coffee Shop & Diner
Albuquerque
2026-09-02
CLOSURE
Old Town Emporium
Albuquerque
2026-08-18
CLOSURE
Planned Parenthood
Albuquerque
2026-08-17
CLOSURE
Waffletopia
Albuquerque
2026-08-06
CLOSURE
Equip Academy
Albuquerque
2026-05-31
CLOSURE
Eddie Bauer
Albuquerque
2026-04-27
LAYOFF
Atkore HDPE, LLC
51 jobs · Albuquerque
2025-09-09
CLOSURE
Allsup's
Albuquerque
2025-07-24
LAYOFF
ECS
140 jobs · Albuquerque
2025-07-16
LAYOFF
Intel
227 jobs · Rio Rancho
2024-11-08
CLOSURE
Scooter's Coffee
Rio Rancho
2024-09-04
LAYOFF
U.S. Cotton, LLC
175 jobs · Rio Rancho
2024-07-15
LAYOFF
Jabil Inc.
130 jobs · Albuquerque
2024-01-16
LAYOFF
BIMBO Bakeries
123 jobs · Albuquerque
2023-10-30
LAYOFF
UNM Sandoval Regioinal Medical Center
641 jobs · Rio Rancho

What has actually happened on the ground in Albuquerque, NM recently?

Over the trailing window_days of 365, Albuquerque, NM has recorded store_closures of 6 and warn_notices of 1, with jobs_affected of 51 — a figure that is a floor, since affected_employees is nullable and notices stating no headcount contribute 0 jobs. For cre_bankruptcies the reading is 0, but that figure is a STATE PROXY, not a metro-native count, and coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable.

The figures behind this answer
Store closures
6
WARN layoff notices
1
Jobs on those notices
51
CRE-related bankruptcies
0
Window, in days
365
STATE PROXY — a court case counts in its filing district and an SEC 8-K in the filer's state, not where the property is, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count. Each court case is counted once even when both PACER and CourtListener carry it. A court case's state is its filing district; an SEC 8-K or news item carries the filer's state. Coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable.
affected_employees is nullable — notices that state no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs, so this is a floor.
Closures are matched ZIP -> CBSA and only APPROVED rows count (a pending, machine-extracted row is not yet a closure). This mirrors the Metro Pulse page, not the convergence board — the board applies neither filter and counts higher. Layoffs take the same ZIP -> CBSA and review treatment, and a WARN notice counts if it affects >= 10 people or does not state a headcount (a NULL is not 'fewer than 10').
Written from the figures above · CBSA 10740 · geo_events · last changed 04 Oct 2026 · Ask your own question →
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