Austin carries $1.6 billion of CMBS across 79 loans, and the standout is multifamily. Its distress rate sits at 26.8%, more than triple the 7.6% national mark for the sector — a 3.5× gap that puts Austin apartments among the strained corners of the securitized book. Office is not far behind at 20.3%, running well above its own 11.3% national rate. Even so, the filed record is easing: the metro-wide distress rate registered 14.1% as of July 2026, and the median debt-service coverage across the book stands at 1.89.
The maturity wall is back-loaded. The heaviest load lands in 2031 at $393 million, and that vintage shows no distress on the filed record today. The nearer years are lighter but more mixed, leaving the metro's refinancing pressure concentrated further out rather than in the immediate window.
On the ground, the past year brought 33 distress events — 17 store closures and 16 layoff notices — touching 1,325 jobs. Against a metro unemployment rate of 4.0% as of July 2026, up 0.4 point year over year, the picture is one of localized strain rather than a broad break, with the securitized numbers still pointing down from where they stood.
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX is showing distress across all four measured signals, with every leg reading elevated. Store closures sit at 13 closures (ranked 34th of 392 by count), while layoff notices hit 17 notices (ranked 42nd of 386). Bank CRE over the noncurrent line totals $1,320.9mm (ranked 36th of 393), and securitized loans in special servicing stand at 10 rows (ranked 20th of 335). All six possible pairs of signals agree that stress is elevated — none are quiet, and none disagree. One caveat: the store-closures reading is elevated on size, not on rate, ranking 250th of 392 by closures per 100,000 jobs while still clearing the flat count threshold, so that leg is on the list because the metro is large rather than stressed per unit of itself.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
13 closures | 1.21 per 100k jobs | 34 of 392 | 250 of 392 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
17 notices | 0.09% | 42 of 386 | 174 of 386 | elevated 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 |
$1.32bn | 8.65% | 36 of 393 | 85 of 393 | elevated
allocated 2026-03-31
|
| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
10 loan records | 14.09% | 20 of 335 | 36 of 335 | elevated 2026-07-29
|
In Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX, elevated distress signals include bank distressed CRE (9.0% of bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile, $15.26bn bank CRE with $1.32bn distressed), CMBS special servicing ($236.0mm, 14.1% of metro UPB), store closures (13 in the past year), and WARN notices (17). The reading on the bank allocation exact share is unavailable, as no figure is provided for that metric.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Capital Bank TX | 38.5% | 105% total 130%
|
🔒 | 0.77% |
| Frost Bank TX | 12.0% | 123% total 208%
|
🔒 | 0.74% |
| Prosperity Bank TX | 4.5% | 171% total 228%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| The First National Bank Of Bastrop TX | 100.0% | 182% total 239%
|
🔒 | 0.19% |
| First Texas Bank TX | 68.8% | 162% total 270%
|
🔒 | 0.67% |
| Verabank, National Association TX | 16.3% | 166% total 253%
|
🔒 | 0.96% |
| Broadway National Bank TX | 14.3% | 176% total 244%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| International Bank Of Commerce TX | 6.4% | 215% total 236%
|
🔒 | 0.90% |
| Horizon Bank, Ssb TX | 89.5% | 254% total 420%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Plainscapital Bank TX | 15.3% | 255% total 369%
|
🔒 | 0.54% |
| Southstar Bank, S.s.b. TX | 29.5% | 155% total 214%
|
🔒 | 1.19% |
| Frontier Bank Of Texas TX | 100.0% | 231% total 444%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Round Top State Bank TX | 32.2% | 148% total 215%
|
🔒 | 0.25% |
| R Bank TX | 77.8% | 256% total 418%
|
🔒 | 2.76% |
| Ozona Bank TX | 60.6% | 174% total 237%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Susser Bank TX | 17.1% | 243% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.44% |
| Citizens National Bank TX | 47.8% | 237% total 302%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Classic Bank, National Association TX | 14.9% | 125% total 228%
|
🔒 | 2.29% |
| Cornerstone Capital Bank, Ssb TX | 3.4% | 147% total 176%
|
🔒 | 0.15% |
| Third Coast Bank TX | 3.6% | 236% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.43% |
| First United Bank And Trust Company OK | 4.4% | 280% total 344%
|
🔒 | 1.37% |
| Benchmark Bank TX | 17.3% | 254% total 308%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Security State Bank & Trust TX | 11.7% | 266% total 346%
|
🔒 | 3.45% |
| Primebank Of Texas TX | 45.8% | 236% total 366%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First National Bank Texas TX | 1.9% | 206% total 240%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| Central National Bank TX | 18.5% | 274% total 351%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Centennial Bank AR | 0.5% | 257% total 315%
|
🔒 | 0.46% |
| Extraco Banks, National Association TX | 1.7% | 149% total 201%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Rio Bank TX | 4.3% | 242% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| The Moody National Bank TX | 4.0% | 278% total 364%
|
🔒 | 1.18% |
| Southside Bank TX | 1.8% | 289% total 324%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Jefferson Bank TX | 1.3% | 251% total 352%
|
🔒 | 1.04% |
| Texas Regional Bank TX | 10.2% | 295% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.02% |
| Citizens State Bank TX | 3.9% | 268% total 326%
|
🔒 | 4.98% |
| Security Bank Of Texas TX | 3.4% | 231% total 283%
|
🔒 | 2.88% |
| Hancock Whitney Bank MS | 0.0% | 146% total 229%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| Falcon International Bank TX | 0.7% | 285% total 352%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Lockhart Bank TX | 100.0% | 365% total 510%
|
🔒 | 0.16% |
| American Bank Of Commerce TX | 53.6% | 365% total 507%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Sage Capital Bank, TX | 36.6% | 329% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The First National Bank Of Sonora TX | 7.0% | 327% total 439%
|
🔒 | 2.28% |
| Schertz Bank & Trust TX | 6.1% | 345% total 467%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Alliance Bank Central Texas TX | 5.4% | 302% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.02% |
| Southwestern National Bank TX | 3.2% | 321% total 540%
|
🔒 | 0.34% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Lockhart Bank | $196M | 365% total 510%
|
0.16% | 🔒 |
| R Bank | $422M | 256% total 418%
|
2.76% | 🔒 |
| First Texas Bank | $401M | 162% total 270%
|
0.67% | 🔒 |
| The First National Bank Of Bastrop | $318M | 182% total 239%
|
0.19% | 🔒 |
| Primebank Of Texas | $116M | 236% total 366%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Frontier Bank Of Texas | $482M | 231% total 444%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Horizon Bank, Ssb | $1.0B | 254% total 420%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos’s reading is slack. Against a CMBS wall of $491.8mm across 23 loans, the market’s banks have $3.88bn of room after committed draws of $2.07bn, and $5.56bn before those draws, yielding a wall-to-room of 0.13 — below the median of 0.20 — and 0.09 before committed draws. That places it 177 of 270, counting from the most strained. Capacity is ample, with $1.65bn in CMBS UPB and a distressed share of 14.3% not posing a constraint. Notably, a high ratio here would more likely reflect an exclusion artifact — with 44 banks qualifying and 8 excluded — than a true credit event; the deposit footprint is a proxy, and the wall is CMBS-only, limiting the ratio as an upper bound.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPT | -3.8% | -2.0% | 95.9% | -4.1% | 2026-07-30 |
| MAA | -6.7% | -3.1% | 95.0% | -3.9% | 2026-07-29 |
| UDR | -5.4% | -5.8% | 97.0% | -5.5% | 2026-07-27 |
In the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metro over the past 365 days, there have been 4 CRE-related bankruptcy filings (a state-proxy count), 13 store closures, and 16 WARN notices affecting 1,325 jobs (a floor, as notices without a stated headcount contribute zero). The reading for other on-the-ground distress metrics is unavailable from this data.