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Greensboro-High Point, NC

The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · NC
The read
$430M of CMBS across 30 loans. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2030 ($134M, 31% of the book). Distress is flat in the filed record — 6.3% as of 2026-07. 7 on-the-ground distress events in the past year.
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 Small Book, a Flat Record, and a 2030 Wall

Greensboro-High Point is a modest CMBS market: $430 million spread across just 30 loans. The book is thinly concentrated by year, with the heaviest maturity load landing in 2030 — $134 million, or 31% of the balance — a distant enough date that today's payoff pressure is limited, but a bulge the desks tracking this metro will want to keep in view.

In the filed record, distress has held flat, running at 6.3% as of July 2026. Median debt-service coverage across the book sits at 1.95, a cushion that reads as comfortable against the servicer-declared distress on the page. This is a market where the numbers the servicer has actually stamped are steady, not deteriorating.

The on-the-ground signal is where the read tightens: seven distress events over the past year, all storefront closures. That is real activity in a small metro, and it sits alongside a filed record that has yet to move — the kind of divergence between what is happening at street level and what has reached the servicer that warrants a closer watch.

CMBS Distressed UPB
$29M / 6.9% in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$81M
Local Banks (stressed)
0 / 2
Bank Early-Warning
0 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
7
Layoff Notices (1y)
0 / 0 jobs
CMBS Loans / UPB
30 / $430M
Unemployment · Jul 2026
4.1% -0.5pp yr
Office-Using Jobs · 2024
61,313 +0.1% yr

How much CRE distress is there in Greensboro-High Point, NC right now?

For Greensboro-High Point, NC, distress readings are uniformly quiet across all four independent feeds. Store closures sit at 4 closures over the trailing 365 days, with a rate of 1.27 per 100k jobs; WARN layoff notices are at 0 notices, a 0.0% share of employment; bank CRE over the noncurrent line is $223.3mm, a 3.75% share of the metro's allocated CRE; and securitized loans in special servicing total 1 row, a 5.72% share of the read balance. All six pair-wise comparisons agree on quiet, with zero pairs elevated, zero pairs disagreeing, and zero unadjudicated pairs. As of the most recent stamps (bank CRE as of 2026-03-31, securitized loans as of 2026-07-29), there is no indication of elevated distress in the Greensboro-High Point metro.

The figures behind this answer
SignalLevel Rate Rank by count Rank by rate Reading
store closures
store closures per 100,000 jobs
4 closures 1.27 per 100k jobs 98 of 392 238 of 392 quiet
trailing 365 days to today
layoff notices (WARN)
workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment
0 notices 0% 313 of 386 308 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
$223.3mm 3.75% 109 of 393 183 of 393 quiet
allocated
2026-03-31
securitized loans in special servicing
share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing
1 loan records 5.72% 90 of 335 66 of 335 quiet
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
{'coverage': "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.", 'a_count_ranks_by_size': '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. Every leg carries both ranks over ONE population; quote the rate beside the count.', 'disagreement_is_not_severity': '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. The six pairs read different populations, and each note is a STRUCTURAL prior about those populations — nothing here measures a lead or a lag between two legs, so never report one as timing.', 'a_blind_leg_is_not_a_quiet_one': "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. Never report a blind leg as 'no distress'."}
{'leg': 'closures', 'unit': 'jobs', 'as_of': 'trailing 365 days to today', 'value': 315438, 'measures': 'store closures', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'window', 'what_it_is': "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"}
{'leg': 'warn', 'unit': 'employed', 'as_of': 'trailing 365 days to today', 'value': 352910, 'measures': 'layoff notices (WARN)', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'window', 'what_it_is': 'employed persons, BLS LAUS, not seasonally adjusted'}
{'leg': 'bank', 'unit': '$mm', 'as_of': '2026-03-31', 'value': 5956.9, 'measures': 'bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'stamp', 'what_it_is': 'bank CRE allocated to this metro by branch deposits'}
{'leg': 'cmbs', 'unit': '$mm', 'as_of': '2026-07-29', 'value': 507.0, 'measures': 'securitized loans in special servicing', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'stamp', 'what_it_is': "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"}
Written from the figures above · CBSA 24660 · stress_metro · last changed 28 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →

Which distress signals are elevated in Greensboro-High Point, NC, and which cannot be read?

In Greensboro-High Point, NC, the elevated distress signals are 43.4% of bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile, with bank CRE totaling $5.96bn and a 5.8% allocation share; CMBS special servicing exposure is $29.0mm (a 5.7% share of metro UPB) and distressed lender CRE is $223.3mm. The readings that cannot be obtained are distressed bank assets (0), convergence (0), and a phase sequence ("no reading"), so any measure of aggregate convergence or bank-led distress is unavailable.

The figures behind this answer
CMBS in special servicing
$29.0mm
… as a share of this metro's CMBS balance
5.7%
Bank CRE lent into this metro
$5.96bn
… at risk at the 90th percentile
43.4%
CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
$223.3mm
Assets at those lenders
$0.00bn
… share needing no branch-deposit allocation
5.8%
Legs agreeing
0
Phase
watch
CMBS loans in special servicing
1
Distressed banks
0
Store closures (past year)
4
WARN notices (past year)
0
an isolated signal, not a convergence
tens of millions of distressed CRE exposure
signals are present but neither credit-material nor ground-heavy
Written from the figures above · CBSA 24660 · geo_metro_signals · last changed 27 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 · Jul 2026
4.1% -0.5pp yr
Last 24 months
3.5%4.7%
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
Office-using
61,313 jobs · +0.1% yr · 19% of all jobs
Retail trade
40,380 jobs · 0.0% yr
Industrial
19,713 jobs · -7.1% yr
Annual employment by sector (BLS QCEW, 2024; 315,438 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 →
This metro's CMBS runs 6.9% distressed where its own property mix predicts 6.4% — $2M more than this book would carry at the rate each property type runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted and excluding this metro. The gap is measured; the cause is not.
No CMBS sector data for this metro.
Elimination — does the gap survive a control?
Each row re-prices this metro's book on a finer cell — its own property types, then those types split by loan size, then by vintage — always at the rate that cell runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted. A gap that shrinks toward zero is explained by the control; one that stays has ruled it out. What is measured is what survives, not a cause.
property mix alone
+0.5pp
… and loan size held fixed
+0.2pp
there is no gap here to explain
… and vintage held fixed
+2.5pp
there is no gap here to explain
The largest single contributor is Office: 5 loans, $136M, running 21.7% where the same type runs 11.3% elsewhere — worth 3.3pp of this metro's own rate.
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, distress within eachSee what’s maturing →
$81M — 19% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already distressed.
2027
$39M · 2 loans · 0.0%
2028
$77M · 4 loans · 38.4%
2029
$90M · 10 loans · 0.0%
2030
$134M · 6 loans · 0.0%
2031
$43M · 5 loans · 0.0%
2034
$6M · 2 loans · 0.0%
2035
$41M · 1 loan · 0.0%
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Realized distress is FLAT6.3% now (2026-07), +0.1pp over the year.
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 $312M of the metro's $430M; each bar's colored share is its distress rate.
Downtown Greensboro
$142M · 20.8%
West Greensboro / Friendly
$106M · 0.0%
High Point
$64M · 0.0%
Airport / Piedmont Triad
$47M · 0.0%
Asheboro / Randleman
$42M · 0.0%
Reidsville / Eden / Madison
$28M · 0.0%
Bank Door — what the local bank sector could absorbSee it on every loan’s exit read →
$81M of CMBS matures here within two years. The 12 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly $226M more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is 0.36× that room. The median metro sits at 0.12×.
Regional Bank Room
$226M
After Committed Draws
$78M / −66%
Maturing ÷ Room
0.36×
Banks In Footprint
12 / 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 $324M of construction committed and not yet advanced, of which $148M comes out of the room above, leaving $78M, with 6 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 $176M 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: 8 more cross it once their own commitments fund.
Counted — 12 regional & local CRE lenders
BankDeposit shareCRE / Capital*Room contributedNoncurrent CRE
The Fidelity Bank NC 11.8% 206%
total 373%
🔒 0.47%
Bank Of Oak Ridge NC 100.0% 241%
total 428%
🔒 0.70%
First Bank NC 9.4% 280%
total 366%
🔒 0.40%
Hometrust Bank NC 6.3% 235%
total 324%
🔒 0.68%
Triad Business Bank NC 87.3% 259%
total 434%
🔒 0.58%
Townebank VA 1.1% 249%
total 345%
🔒 0.19%
Southern First Bank SC 3.5% 236%
total 397%
🔒 0.23%
Atlantic Union Bank VA 0.4% 264%
total 363%
🔒 0.42%
Movement Bank VA 26.9% 203%
total 353%
🔒 0.00%
Blue Ridge Bank, National Association VA 1.3% 255%
total 315%
🔒 0.14%
Carter Bank & Trust VA 9.4% 395%
total 423%
🔒 0.84%
First Carolina Bank NC 2.4% 448%
total 515%
🔒 1.07%
Not counted — 13 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
Truist Bank NC · Wells Fargo Bank, National Association SD · Bank Of America, National Association NC · First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company NC · Pnc Bank, National Association DE · Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · Piedmont Federal Savings Bank NC · Mechanics & Farmers Bank NC
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
Pinnacle Bank TN · First Horizon Bank TN · First National Bank Of Pennsylvania PA · Bank Ozk AR · Woodforest National Bank TX
* 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 2025) — 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 — 313 banks holding $268.2B 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
Bank Of Oak Ridge $352M 241%
total 428%
0.70% 🔒
Triad Business Bank $274M 259%
total 434%
0.58% 🔒
* 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.

Do the banks lending in Greensboro-High Point, NC have the capacity to refinance its maturing CRE?

Greensboro-High Point, NC's maturing CMBS debt within 24 months totals $80.9mm across 4 loans, while regional/community banks here have limited capacity after accounting for committed construction draws. The wall-to-room ratio stands at 1.04, meaning maturing CMBS balances exceed available bank room after committed draws of $324.0mm, leaving just $78.0mm in residual capacity. This ranks the metro 57 of 270, counting from the most strained, indicating above-median strain (the median ratio is 0.20). However, a caveat applies: this reading may reflect an exclusion artifact rather than true credit distress, since 5 banks are excluded here versus 12 qualifying — if the metro's lending is concentrated among excluded national or card banks, the actual capacity could be higher, though this is not the case here (explained_by_exclusion is false). Before committed draws, the ratio would be 0.36, but as committed, the wall outmatches room, suggesting refinancing capacity is tight unless banks tap pre-committed headroom.

The figures behind this answer
CMBS maturing in the window
$80.9mm
… across this many loans
4
Local bank room, before committed draws
$226.1mm
Committed construction draws
$324.0mm
Local bank room, after those draws
$78.0mm
Wall-to-room ratio
1.04
Rank, most strained
57
… out of this many metros ranked
270
… before committed draws
0.36
Population ranked against
CMBS maturing within 24 months against regional/community bank room in this metro
Qualifying local banks
12
… excluded from the calculation
5
Distressed share of this metro's CMBS
6.9%
Total CMBS balance here
$429.8mm
Capacity band
over
Compared against a median wall-to-room ratio of 0.20 across the ranked metros.
1.04 is ABOVE the median of 0.20, so this metro is MORE strained than the typical ranked metro
57 of 270, counting from the MOST strained — a LOWER rank number means MORE strain
{'room_is_a_proxy': 'Room is what regional and community banks could still write before the SR 06-26 concentration line, after deducting construction draws already committed. Deposit footprint is a proxy for lending footprint, not a measurement of it.', 'ratio_is_not_size': 'The most extreme ratios belong to the smallest metros. Read maturing_bal_mm beside the ratio — the map sizes bubbles by the wall, not the strain, for exactly this reason.', 'wall_is_cmbs_only': "The wall is the CMBS balance maturing within 24 months — the maturing debt this platform can see, not the metro's whole maturity load. Every ratio is an upper bound on how much of it local banks would have to absorb.", 'exclusion_artifact': 'A high ratio is as often an exclusion artifact as a credit event. Banks whose deposits do not indicate where they lend (nationals, card and charter banks) are excluded from the room, so a metro served mainly by those reads strained while its credit is simply invisible here. Check banks_qualifying against banks_excluded_here, and explained_by_exclusion.'}
Written from the figures above · CBSA 24660 · capacity_metro · last changed 06 Sep 2026 · Ask your own question →
On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
7 local distress events in the past year — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-08-28
CLOSURE
Hop's Bar-B-Q
Asheboro
2026-08-03
CLOSURE
Ambleside Gallery
Greensboro
2026-07-23
CLOSURE
Asheboro barbeque restaurant
Asheboro
2026-07-16
BANKRUPTCY
historic hotel
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2026-05-31
CLOSURE
Walmart
High Point
2026-05-29
BANKRUPTCY
HBCU
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2025-10-10
CLOSURE
Little Caesars
Greensboro
2025-09-30
CLOSURE
Little Caesars
Greensboro
2025-09-25
CLOSURE
Little Caesars
Greensboro
2025-09-07
CLOSURE
Claire's
Asheboro
2025-06-30
CLOSURE
Advance Auto Parts
Greensboro
2025-05-21
CLOSURE
Panera Bread
Greensboro
2025-05-21
CLOSURE
Panera Bread
Greensboro
2024-12-05
CLOSURE
Sheetz
High Point

What has actually happened on the ground in Greensboro-High Point, NC recently?

In the past 365 days on the ground in Greensboro-High Point, NC, the metro has recorded 2 CRE-likely bankruptcy filings (state proxy, not metro-native), 5 store closures, and 0 WARN notices affecting 0 jobs (a floor, as notices without a headcount still count but add 0). Readings on unemployment or vacancy are unavailable, but these vetted figures indicate a contained retail pullback with no reported layoffs.

The figures behind this answer
Store closures
5
WARN layoff notices
0
Jobs on those notices
0
CRE-related bankruptcies
2
Window, in days
365
STATE PROXY — bankruptcy filings carry the filer's state, not the property's location, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count.
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 24660 · geo_events · last changed 06 Sep 2026 · Ask your own question →
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