Harrisburg-Carlisle carries $492M of CMBS across 28 loans, and as of July 2026 not a dollar of it is in special servicing or 60-plus days delinquent — a distress rate of 0.0%, flat in the filed record. Retail is the dominant exposure at $313M, and it too shows no filed distress against a national retail rate of 2.7%. Median DSCR across the book sits at 1.62, and the four banks tracked here register no distress and no early-warning flags. On paper, this is one of the cleaner small-metro books on the desk.
The test is a matter of timing rather than condition. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029, when $157M — 32% of the book — comes due, well ahead of the lighter stacks scheduled across 2028, 2031 and 2032. None of those years carries any filed distress today, but the concentration in a single year is the structural feature that underwriters should keep in view.
The one crack between the servicer record and the street is the on-the-ground read: nine store closures over the past year, against no layoff notices and a labor market that has firmed, with unemployment at 3.5% in July 2026, down a full point year over year. The closures have not translated into filed distress on the retail book, but with $313M concentrated in the sector, they are the signal worth watching.
Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA shows mixed CRE stress signals. Store closures are elevated at 8 closures, ranking 49th of 392 metros by count and 98th by rate at 2.84 closures per 100,000 jobs. However, layoff notices (WARN) are quiet at 0 notices, ranking 313th of 386, and bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line reads 3.16% of $6,953.6mm allocated CRE as noncurrent. The securitized loans in special servicing reading is unavailable—the signal is present but not measurable (the share of special-servicing rows that carry a balance at all is 0%). Of six metric pairs, 0 are both elevated, 1 is both quiet, 2 disagree, and 3 are unadjudicated because one side is blind. The disagreement between elevated closures and quiet WARN suggests failure below the WARN filing floor—small operators invisible to disclosure regimes—while the bank leg has not yet reflected tenant departures.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
8 closures | 2.84 per 100k jobs | 49 of 392 | 98 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 |
0 notices | 0% | 313 of 386 | 308 of 386 | quiet 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 |
$219.8mm | 3.16% | 111 of 393 | 204 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 |
1 loan records | — | — | — | cannot be read
not measurable 2026-07-29
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Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — Distress Signal Assessment
The elevated distress signal in Harrisburg-Carlisle is closures, with 8 store closures over the past year and 0 WARN notices, while the CRE-credit side remains unreadable. On the banking side, the picture shows elevated risk concentration: bank CRE allocation is 2.6% of assets, with bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile reaching 45.8%, though distressed lender CRE is only $219.8mm and distressed bank assets are 0 — indicating limited actual bank distress despite high exposure levels. However, the securitized market reading is unavailable: CMBS special servicing shows $0.0mm in UPB and a 0.0% share of metro UPB, but per the phase analysis, the "credit side unreadable" — the tape carries no balance for the 1 special-servicing loan, so the securitized signal is a data gap, not an absence of distress. Overall, the ground is wobbling (closures/layoffs) but little CRE-credit distress sits behind it yet — a real-economy signal, not (yet) a CRE-credit event, with the credit-side impact obscured and unmeasurable.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulton Bank, National Association PA | 3.8% | 184% total 283%
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🔒 | 0.79% |
| First Commonwealth Bank PA | 4.7% | 205% total 260%
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🔒 | 0.71% |
| Pennian Bank PA | 51.3% | 150% total 204%
|
🔒 | 2.74% |
| Bank Of Bird-In-Hand PA | 5.6% | 115% total 226%
|
🔒 | 0.08% |
| Northwest Bank PA | 0.5% | 109% total 145%
|
🔒 | 1.53% |
| Acnb Bank PA | 2.3% | 232% total 333%
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🔒 | 0.21% |
| The Juniata Valley Bank PA | 14.7% | 282% total 375%
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🔒 | 0.00% |
| Univest Bank And Trust Co. PA | 0.2% | 264% total 373%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| Orrstown Bank PA | 31.7% | 300% total 415%
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🔒 | 0.43% |
| Mid Penn Bank PA | 40.6% | 328% total 438%
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🔒 | 0.25% |
| Farmers And Merchants Trust Company Of Chambersburg PA | 25.5% | 367% total 431%
|
🔒 | 1.79% |
| S&t Bank PA | 3.9% | 309% total 339%
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🔒 | 0.24% |
| Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Fsb DE | 0.0% | 225% total 301%
|
🔒 | 0.68% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Community Bankers Bank | $519M | 262% total 318%
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0.61% | 🔒 |
| Orrstown Bank | $2.5B | 300% total 415%
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0.43% | 🔒 |
| Mid Penn Bank | $3.3B | 328% total 438%
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0.25% | 🔒 |
Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA shows clear capacity to refinance its maturing CRE. The market has 13 qualifying banks with a room_after_committed of $221.8mm against a maturing_bal of $28.8mm, producing a wall_to_room of 0.13 that sits below the median ratio of 0.20, ranking 173 of 270 most strained metros. The distressed_share is 0.0%, and while national or charter banks (5 excluded here) might not capture this local lending, no exclusion artifact explains the reading—this metro has genuine slack to absorb its thin CMBS wall.
In the Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro over the past 365 days, the on-the-ground picture shows 8 store closures, while 0 CRE bankruptcies, 0 WARN notices, and 0 jobs affected have been recorded, per the vetted data. The store-closure count reflects only approved, ZIP-matched closures (not pending or machine-extracted rows), and the jobs figure is a floor since notices without a stated headcount contribute 0 to the total. Bankruptcy filings are a state-proxy count, not metro-native, so true office/retail distress in the metro remains unquantified beyond these figures.