Denver-Aurora-Centennial runs $1.8 billion of CMBS across 96 loans, and the strain sits where the money is. Office is the metro's largest book at $494 million and also its most distressed, with 29.2% in special servicing or 60-plus days delinquent — more than double the 11.3% national office rate. The rest of the stack reads calmer: hospitality at 5.7% sits just inside the 6.1% national mark, and both retail and self-storage show no distress in the filed record.
The maturity wall is spread rather than immediate, with the heaviest single load — $411 million — landing in 2029. In the filed record, the overall distress rate has been flat, sitting at 18.0% as of July 2026, and the metro's median DSCR of 1.66 gives the broader book some cushion.
On the ground, the past year brought 49 distress events — 29 store closures and 20 layoff notices tied to 2,323 jobs. Among banks, none of the 12 tracked here are flagged distressed, though three carry early-warning signals.
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO is showing broad-based CRE distress right now: all four of the independent feeds read elevated, and all 6 pairs of legs agree hot, with 0 pairs quiet and 0 pairs disagreeing. Store closures run at 2.02 per 100,000 jobs (28 closures, 17th of 392 metros by count but 166th by rate), while WARN layoff notices run at 0.14% of employment (22 notices, 30th of 386 by count, 146th by rate). Bank CRE over the noncurrent line sits at 9.75% of the book ($2,335.3mm allocated by branch deposits, 25th of 393 by count, 68th by rate), and securitized loans in special servicing run at 18.94% of the trust slice read here (12 rows, 14th of 335 by count, 23rd by rate) — note the bank leg's allocation caveat that only 7.3% of its dollars sit at single-metro lenders, so the rest is split by branch deposits the call report can't confirm.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
28 closures | 2.02 per 100k jobs | 17 of 392 | 166 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 |
22 notices | 0.14% | 30 of 386 | 146 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 |
$2.34bn | 9.75% | 25 of 393 | 68 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 |
12 loan records | 18.94% | 14 of 335 | 23 of 335 | elevated 2026-07-29
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In Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO, the elevated distress signals are bank-distressed CRE, CMBS special servicing, store closures, and WARN notices. Specifically, bank-distressed CRE is at “$2.34bn” (with a 90th-percentile at-risk share of “31.6%”), CMBS special-servicing UPB is “$346.0mm” (18.9% of metro UPB), and there are 12 CMBS loans in special servicing, 28 store closures, and 22 WARN notices over the past year. However, the bank-level distress signal cannot be read: the reading on distressed bank assets is “0”, and the count of distressed banks is likewise unavailable beyond that zero figure, with the bank CRE allocation share at “7.3%” but no explicit elevated bank-failure metric provided.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First National Bank SD | 17.0% | 148% total 188%
|
🔒 | 0.01% |
| Anb Bank CO | 25.8% | 166% total 242%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Academy Bank, National Association MO | 19.0% | 228% total 294%
|
🔒 | 1.11% |
| Alpine Bank CO | 7.7% | 190% total 259%
|
🔒 | 0.20% |
| Inbank NM | 34.0% | 224% total 355%
|
🔒 | 0.92% |
| Redstone Bank CO | 100.0% | 232% total 340%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Evergreen National Bank CO | 100.0% | 208% total 322%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Bank Of Colorado CO | 11.4% | 292% total 356%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| High Plains Bank CO | 13.1% | 197% total 377%
|
🔒 | 0.37% |
| 5star Bank CO | 16.0% | 228% total 299%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Farmers State Bank Of Calhan CO | 14.2% | 184% total 204%
|
🔒 | 0.71% |
| Banc Of California CA | 0.5% | 291% total 334%
|
🔒 | 4.24% |
| Corefirst Bank & Trust KS | 1.7% | 274% total 401%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Western Trust Bank CO | 56.4% | 312% total 384%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Firstier Bank NE | 15.7% | 323% total 401%
|
🔒 | 3.81% |
| Pb&t Bank CO | 10.4% | 317% total 480%
|
🔒 | 0.68% |
| Kirkpatrick Bank OK | 4.4% | 384% total 449%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| United Fidelity Bank, Fsb IN | 1.7% | 430% total 434%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| First Fidelity Bank OK | 1.3% | 308% total 462%
|
🔒 | 0.49% |
| United Business Bank CA | 0.2% | 402% total 555%
|
🔒 | 0.48% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solera National Bank | $342M | 218% total 231%
|
1.63% | 🔒 |
| Native American Bank, National Association | $50M | 34% total 92%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Evergreen National Bank | $58M | 208% total 322%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Colorado Federal Savings Bank | $483M | 176% total 176%
|
1.26% | 🔒 |
| North Valley Bank | $143M | 248% total 406%
|
0.87% | 🔒 |
| First American State Bank | $110M | 286% total 377%
|
0.43% | 🔒 |
| Nbh Bank | $4.1B | 215% total 306%
|
0.22% | 🔒 |
| Fortis Bank | $589M | 267% total 447%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
In Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO, the $562.8mm in maturing CMBS debt — spread across 35 loans — faces a wall-to-room ratio of 1.91, meaning the metro’s regional and community banks lack the capacity to fully refinance it. These lenders have $470.5mm in room before committed draws, but after deducting $272.7mm in committed construction drawings, their available capacity drops to just $295.0mm, leaving a shortfall against the maturing balance. However, this reading is likely an exclusion artifact rather than evidence of genuine credit scarcity: more banks are excluded here (22) than qualify (20), because the analysis omits nationals, card banks, and charter banks whose deposits don’t indicate local lending. With 20 qualifying banks still active, the strain is partially a function of measurement boundaries, but the distressed share of 18.8% on this CMBS pool signals real pressure nonetheless — the metro ranks 36 of 270 for strain, above the median ratio of 0.20, yet the true capacity picture is clouded by the fact that a significant portion of its lending footprint is invisible to this analysis.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVB | — | -3.5% | 95.6% | -5.7% | 2026-07-30 |
| CPT | -7.5% | -4.1% | 96.2% | -1.7% | 2026-07-30 |
| EQR | -9.8% | -5.9% | 96.8% | -7.7% | 2026-04-28 |
| MAA | -7.1% | -4.0% | 95.8% | -2.8% | 2026-07-29 |
Over the past 365 days, Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO has logged 29 store closures and 21 WARN notices, affecting 2,379 jobs on the ground. That comes alongside 0 CRE-related bankruptcies (though that count is a state-proxy, not metro-native). Employment-impact readings are a floor, since notices without a stated headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs; any coverage gaps would make the 21 WARN notices unavailable for exact headcount attribution in those cases.