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Commercial Real Estate Credit —
Lafayette, LA
The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · LA
The read
$154M of CMBS across 13 loans. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2031 ($40M, 26% of the book). Distress is flat in the filed record — 0.0% as of 2026-07. 5 on-the-ground distress events in the past year (114 jobs).
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 →
CMBS Distressed UPB
under $1M / 0.0%
in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$38M
Banks HQ’d Here (stressed)
0 / 11
Bank Early-Warning
3 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
4
Layoff Notices (1y)
1 / 114 jobs
0.07% of metro employment
CMBS Loans / UPB
13 / $154M
Unemployment · Aug 2026
3.3%
-0.5pp yr
Which distress signals are elevated in Lafayette, LA, and which cannot be read?
In Lafayette, LA, distress signals are not elevated — the reading is that no specific signals are flagged, and the phase is "watch" because "an isolated signal, not a convergence." The distress signals that cannot be read include bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile (the figure is 7.9%), CMBS special servicing with 0.0% share of metro UPB, and 0 distressed bank assets. Additionally, the convergence reading is 0, meaning no multi-signal stress is present, and the materiality is "immaterial" with "little to no distressed CRE dollars behind the signals."
The figures behind this answer
- CMBS in special servicing
- $0.0mm
- … as a share of this metro's CMBS balance
- 0.0%
- Bank CRE lent into this metro
- $5.04bn
- … at risk at the 90th percentile
- 7.9%
- CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
- $115.6mm
- Assets at those lenders
- $0.00bn
- … share needing no branch-deposit allocation
- 25.9%
- Legs agreeing
- 0
- Phase
- watch
- CMBS loans in special servicing
- 0
- Distressed banks
- 0
- Store closures (past year)
- 4
- WARN notices (past year)
- 1
an isolated signal, not a convergence
little to no distressed CRE dollars behind the signals
signals are present but neither credit-material nor ground-heavy
Written from the figures above · CBSA 29180 · geo_metro_signals · last changed 27 Aug 2026
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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 · Aug 2026
3.3%
-0.5pp yr
Last 24 months
3.3%4.3%
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
Annual employment by sector (BLS QCEW, 2024; 155,225 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 →
Too few CMBS loans here (13) to say whether this metro's rate is explained by its property mix — that comparison needs 25.
No CMBS sector data for this metro.
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, distress within eachSee what’s maturing →
$38M — 24% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already distressed.
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Realized distress is FLAT — 0.0% now (2026-07), +0.0pp 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 $154M of the metro's $154M; each bar's colored share is its distress rate.
Bank Door — what the local bank sector could absorbSee it on every loan’s exit read →
$38M of CMBS matures here within two years.
The 26 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly
$1.2B more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is
0.03× that room.
The median metro sits at 0.13×.
Regional Bank Room
$1.2B
After Committed Draws
$717M / −38%
Maturing ÷ Room
0.03×
Banks In Footprint
26 / 1 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 $451M of construction committed and not yet
advanced, of which $437M
comes out of the room above, leaving $717M,
with 2 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 $14M 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:
2 of 26
are past it on drawn balances alone, and
9 more cross it
once their own commitments fund.
Counted — 26 regional & local CRE lenders
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hancock Whitney Bank MS | 5.0% | 146% total 229%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| Home Bank, National Association LA | 52.7% | 208% total 377%
|
🔒 | 0.96% |
| Rayne State Bank & Trust Company LA | 100.0% | 125% total 239%
|
🔒 | 0.79% |
| Gulf Coast Bank LA | 94.0% | 153% total 229%
|
🔒 | 0.83% |
| First National Bank Of Louisiana LA | 80.5% | 184% total 307%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Investar Bank, National Association LA | 11.4% | 204% total 317%
|
🔒 | 0.84% |
| B1bank LA | 6.2% | 241% total 352%
|
🔒 | 0.84% |
| The Evangeline Bank And Trust Company LA | 16.2% | 164% total 264%
|
🔒 | 0.92% |
| Merchants & Marine Bank MS | 31.2% | 228% total 311%
|
🔒 | 2.08% |
| The Bank LA | 25.1% | 112% total 154%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Farmers State Bank & Trust Co. LA | 93.6% | 129% total 260%
|
🔒 | 0.13% |
| St. Landry Bank And Trust Company LA | 30.4% | 117% total 138%
|
🔒 | 5.69% |
| Jd Bank LA | 10.6% | 205% total 294%
|
🔒 | 0.29% |
| Washington State Bank LA | 29.2% | 177% total 302%
|
🔒 | 0.72% |
| Currency Bank LA | 24.6% | 167% total 258%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The First National Bank Of Jeanerette LA | 19.3% | 238% total 387%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Red River Bank LA | 1.2% | 155% total 249%
|
🔒 | 0.01% |
| Cottonport Bank LA | 5.1% | 118% total 217%
|
🔒 | 0.79% |
| First Guaranty Bank LA | 3.3% | 235% total 325%
|
🔒 | 2.88% |
| American Bank & Trust Company LA | 11.7% | 165% total 241%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Clb The Community Bank LA | 12.7% | 206% total 248%
|
🔒 | 2.07% |
| South Louisiana Bank LA | 2.1% | 111% total 183%
|
🔒 | 0.46% |
| United Mississippi Bank MS | 4.3% | 178% total 310%
|
🔒 | 0.04% |
| Bankplus MS | 0.5% | 235% total 371%
|
🔒 | 0.63% |
| Bank Of Sunset And Trust Company LA | 28.5% | 262% total 351%
|
🔒 | 0.30% |
| Community First Bank LA | 27.6% | 310% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.32% |
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
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · Capital One, National Association VA · Bank Of Commerce & Trust Co. LA · Bank Of Abbeville & Trust Company LA · Catalyst Bank LA · Vermilion Bank & Trust Company LA · Regions Bank AL · Bank Of Erath LA · M C Bank & Trust Company LA · Fidelity Bank LA · The Huntington National Bank OH
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
* 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 2026) — 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 —
315 banks holding $263.8B of national capacity not counted here.
Local Lenders — banks headquartered here, worst CRE noncurrent firstUnlock each bank’s early-warning flag →
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bank Of Abbeville & Trust Company | $58M | 93% total 184%
|
0.80% | 🔒 |
| Community First Bank | $277M | 310% total 329%
|
0.32% | 🔒 |
| The First National Bank Of Jeanerette | $270M | 238% total 387%
|
0.09% | 🔒 |
| Home Bank, National Association | $1.7B | 208% total 377%
|
0.96% | 🔒 |
| Gulf Coast Bank | $183M | 153% total 229%
|
0.83% | 🔒 |
| Rayne State Bank & Trust Company | $168M | 125% total 239%
|
0.79% | 🔒 |
| First National Bank Of Louisiana | $235M | 184% total 307%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
* 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 Lafayette, LA have the capacity to refinance its maturing CRE?
Lafayette, LA looks well positioned on this reading: the CMBS wall maturing within 24 months is $37.7mm across 3 maturing loans, against $1.15bn of room before committed draws and $716.9mm of room after committed construction draws at the 26 banks_qualifying, giving a wall_to_room of 0.05 (and 0.03 wall_to_room_before_committed_draws) — well below the median and ranking 231 of 275, counting from the most strained. Distressed share is 0.0% and the CMBS balance stands at $154.5mm, so local bank capacity comfortably covers the visible maturity load; note that this wall is CMBS only, and the room figure is a deposit-footprint proxy, with 2 banks_excluded_here whose lending is invisible in this measure.
The figures behind this answer
- CMBS maturing in the window
- $37.7mm
- … across this many loans
- 3
- Local bank room, before committed draws
- $1.15bn
- Committed construction draws
- $450.8mm
- Local bank room, after those draws
- $716.9mm
- Wall-to-room ratio
- 0.05
- Rank, most strained
- 231
- … out of this many metros ranked
- 275
- … before committed draws
- 0.03
- Population ranked against
- CMBS maturing within 24 months against regional/community bank room in this metro
- Qualifying local banks
- 26
- … excluded from the calculation
- 2
- Distressed share of this metro's CMBS
- 0.0%
- Total CMBS balance here
- $154.5mm
- Capacity band
- slack
Compared against a median wall-to-room ratio of
0.24 across the ranked metros.
0.05 is BELOW the median of 0.24, so this metro is LESS strained than the typical ranked metro
231 of 275, counting from the MOST strained — a LOWER rank number means MORE strain
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.
The most extreme ratios belong to the smallest metros.
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.
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.
Written from the figures above · CBSA 29180 · capacity_metro · last changed 25 Oct 2026
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On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
5 local distress events in the past year (114 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-09-23
CLOSURE
Lafayette
2026-08-27
CLOSURE
Lafayette
2026-07-02
BANKRUPTCY
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2026-07-01
CLOSURE
Lafayette
2026-04-23
LAYOFF
114 jobs
2026-01-31
CLOSURE
Lafayette
2025-08-22
LAYOFF
541 jobs · Broussard
2025-08-22
LAYOFF
541 jobs · 200 St. Nazaire Rd. Broussard, LA, 70518 142 Lake Talon Rd. Broussard
2025-07-03
CLOSURE
Lafayette
2025-07-03
CLOSURE
Lafayette
2025-06-30
CLOSURE
Lafayette
2025-03-14
LAYOFF
48 jobs · 939 W. Pont Des Mouton Rd Lafayette
2025-03-14
LAYOFF
48 jobs · Lafayette
2024-10-31
CLOSURE
Lafayette
What has actually happened on the ground in Lafayette, LA recently?
Over the trailing 365 window, the on-the-ground activity in Lafayette, LA amounts to 4 store closures, 1 warn notice and 114 jobs affected, alongside 1 cre bankruptcies — though that last figure is a STATE PROXY — a court case counts in its filing district and an SEC 8-K in the filer's state, not where the property is, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count. Note also that the jobs figure is a floor, since affected_employees is nullable — notices that state no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs.
The figures behind this answer
- Store closures
- 4
- WARN layoff notices
- 1
- Jobs on those notices
- 114
- CRE-related bankruptcies
- 1
- Window, in days
- 365
STATE PROXY — a court case counts in its filing district and an SEC 8-K in the filer's state, not where the property is, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count. Each court case is counted once even when both PACER and CourtListener carry it. A court case's state is its filing district; an SEC 8-K or news item carries the filer's state. Coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable.
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 29180 · geo_events · last changed 25 Oct 2026
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Everything above is a snapshot — one market, as it stands today, and
it’s yours to read. What a snapshot can’t tell you is when it moves: which loan slipped a DSCR band
this month, which bank’s early-warning rank crossed into the top quartile, which submarket started turning
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