Cincinnati carries $1.4 billion of CMBS across 59 loans, a mid-sized book by national standards, and the pressure inside it is concentrated rather than broad. Hospitality is the sore spot: the sector's distress rate runs 37.8%, against a 6.1% national mark for the same property type — 6.2 times the national rate. That is the number that defines this metro right now, and it sits well clear of anything else on the page.
The filed record is moving in one direction. Distress reads 16.5% as of July 2026, and the trend line has been rising, not holding. This is status the servicer has already declared — loans in special servicing or 60-plus days delinquent — not a projection, and the direction of travel is what warrants attention here.
The refinancing calendar is loaded toward the back end. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029, when $375 million comes due — 26% of the book — a single year that dwarfs the metro's other maturity walls. On the ground, the past year brought 32 distress events tied to 2,307 jobs, a real-economy backdrop that sits underneath the loan-level numbers.
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN currently shows 3 of 4 signals elevated — store closures, WARN layoff notices, and securitized loans in special servicing are all hot — while bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line reads quiet. Notably, the 3 pairs both elevated and 3 pairs disagreeing split the six pair readings evenly, with 0 pairs both quiet. The store closures leg is elevated by size, not by rate: it ranks 34th of 392 metros by count but 230th by rate per 100k jobs (1.34 closures per 100,000 jobs), a fork the data flags explicitly. WARN notices rank 34th of 386 by count and 114th by rate (0.2% of employment). The CMBS leg is the strongest per-unit signal: 16.49% of the securitized balance read here sits in special servicing, ranking 21st of 335 by count and 27th by rate. The bank leg, at 0.24% of allocated CRE over the noncurrent line (rank 187th of 393 by count, 319th by rate), remains quiet — but its allocation by branch deposits is a caveat since only 6.8% of dollars sit at single-metro banks. Disagreements here reflect mechanism, not error: closures-hot with bank-quiet reads as "tenants are leaving and no lender balance sheet shows it yet," and WARN-hot with bank-quiet reads as "employment is going before any lender books it." The CMBS-bank split — tape hot, bank cold — points to national capital stress no local lender is carrying. Three pair agreements (closures-WARN, closures-CMBS, WARN-CMBS) all read hot, reinforcing that the stress is real across property-level and employment feeds, even as the lender-side picture lags.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
13 closures | 1.34 per 100k jobs | 34 of 392 | 230 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 |
20 notices | 0.2% | 34 of 386 | 114 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 |
$77.0mm | 0.24% | 187 of 393 | 319 of 393 | quiet
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 |
9 loan records | 16.49% | 21 of 335 | 27 of 335 | elevated 2026-07-29
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In Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, the elevated distress signals are concentrated in CMBS special servicing, ground-level closures, and WARN notices. Specifically, the CMBS special servicing UPB is $240.0mm, representing a 16.5% share of metro UPB, with 9 loans in special servicing. Additionally, there are 13 store closures and 20 WARN notices over the past year. However, bank-side distress is not readable: the share of bank CRE at the 90th percentile is 8.6%, total bank CRE is $32.31bn (with a 6.8% allocation), and distressed lender CRE is $77.0mm (distressed bank assets: 0.3). The convergence score is 3, signaling a confirmed phase with leading and realized credit signals firing together.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Financial Bank OH | 42.8% | 169% total 215%
|
🔒 | 0.91% |
| Union Savings Bank OH | 45.3% | 128% total 128%
|
🔒 | 0.21% |
| The North Side Bank And Trust Company OH | 100.0% | 156% total 259%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Republic Bank & Trust Company KY | 8.4% | 125% total 186%
|
🔒 | 0.25% |
| The Harrison Building And Loan Association OH | 100.0% | 107% total 137%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| Valley Central Bank OH | 100.0% | 122% total 184%
|
🔒 | 3.47% |
| First Commonwealth Bank PA | 5.1% | 205% total 260%
|
🔒 | 0.71% |
| The Park National Bank OH | 4.5% | 197% total 270%
|
🔒 | 0.81% |
| Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company KY | 9.6% | 248% total 359%
|
🔒 | 0.20% |
| 1st National Bank OH | 99.4% | 133% total 203%
|
🔒 | 0.17% |
| The Friendship State Bank IN | 41.2% | 113% total 171%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Civista Bank OH | 16.8% | 261% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.63% |
| First State Bank OH | 21.9% | 183% total 201%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| Fcn Bank, National Association IN | 72.5% | 247% total 324%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The Cincinnatus Savings & Loan Co. OH | 100.0% | 201% total 238%
|
🔒 | 0.16% |
| German American Bank IN | 3.3% | 222% total 306%
|
🔒 | 0.21% |
| Central Bank & Trust Co. KY | 11.2% | 261% total 333%
|
🔒 | 0.01% |
| Forcht Bank, National Association KY | 27.8% | 249% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The Merchants National Bank OH | 9.8% | 149% total 240%
|
🔒 | 0.59% |
| Community Savings Bank OH | 63.0% | 136% total 152%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Heritage Bank, Inc. KY | 100.0% | 295% total 403%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First National Bank Of Kentucky KY | 22.6% | 186% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.57% |
| Cfbank, National Association OH | 8.4% | 279% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.53% |
| Farmers & Merchants Bank OH | 9.2% | 240% total 432%
|
🔒 | 1.56% |
| Community Trust Bank, Inc. KY | 0.2% | 165% total 206%
|
🔒 | 0.39% |
| The Farmers & Merchants State Bank OH | 0.6% | 231% total 374%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Peoples Exchange Bank KY | 0.7% | 246% total 359%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Riverhills Bank OH | 100.0% | 493% total 567%
|
🔒 | 0.15% |
| Lcnb National Bank OH | 68.4% | 386% total 492%
|
🔒 | 0.23% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Central Bank | $70M | 122% total 184%
|
3.47% | 🔒 |
| Fifth Third Bank, National Association | $33.6B | 68% total 106%
|
0.77% | 🔒 |
| 1st National Bank | $54M | 133% total 203%
|
0.17% | 🔒 |
| The North Side Bank And Trust Company | $367M | 156% total 259%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| U.s. Bank National Association | $50.7B | 57% total 70%
|
1.12% | 🔒 |
| First Financial Bank | $5.0B | 169% total 215%
|
0.91% | 🔒 |
| Spring Valley Bank | $64M | 102% total 165%
|
0.24% | 🔒 |
| Lcnb National Bank | $1.1B | 386% total 492%
|
0.23% | 🔒 |
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN sits in the slack capacity band, meaning local banks have ample room to refinance the metro’s maturing CMBS. The 24-month maturity wall is $257.4mm across 14 loans against $1.82bn of room after committed construction draws, yielding a wall-to-room ratio of 0.14 — below the median of 0.20, so this market is less strained than typical. Even before accounting for committed draws, the ratio is 0.10. With 29 banks qualifying and 4 excluded here, the distressed share is 17.0%, but the low ratio — not an exclusion artifact — indicates capacity is not the binding constraint. The rank of 167 of 270 (from most strained) confirms a moderate, manageable position.
Over the trailing 365 days, Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN has recorded 0 CRE bankruptcies, with 20 WARN notices affecting 2,307 jobs and 13 store closures. The 2,307 jobs figure is a floor since notices with no stated headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs, and bankruptcy data is a state proxy rather than a metro-native count. No other ground-level metrics are available beyond these readings.