Las Vegas carries $6.3B of CMBS across 181 loans, and by the servicer's ledger it is one of the calmer books in the country. Distress stands at 0.7% as of July 2026 and has gone nowhere — flat in the filed record — against a median DSCR of 2.24. The tourism-anchored sectors that define this market are showing no strain on the page: retail, the metro's largest book at $2.2B, is 0.0% distressed versus a 2.7% national rate, and hospitality, also $2.2B, reads 0.0% against a national 6.1%. Where the rest of the country has bled, Las Vegas has not.
The softer spots are the smaller books. Office, at $0.8B, runs 3.5% distressed — elevated for this metro but a fraction of the 11.3% national office rate — and multifamily, at $0.3B, sits at 5.5% against 7.6% nationally. Neither carries the weight to move the headline number. The 11 on-the-ground store closures logged over the past year are the clearest sign of retail attrition, but they have yet to surface in the retail book's clean 0.0% distress mark.
The timing that matters here is refinancing, not delinquency. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029 at $2.0B — 31% of the book — with $1.4B due within 24 months. Every one of the near-term maturity years reads 0.0% distressed today, so the question for desks is a rollover question, not a workout one. For now, the on-the-ground and filed records tell the same story: a book that has held.
Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV shows a distinctly mixed distress picture across its four measured feeds. Of the six pairwise comparisons, 4 disagree while 1 pair shows both elevated and 1 pair both quiet. The most notable stress signal comes from bank CRE, with $2,493.8mm sitting over the noncurrent line, a rate of 17.92%, ranking 23rd of 393 metros by count and 21st by rate — the only leg elevated on both measures without a size caveat. Store closures are also elevated at 7 closures with a rate of 0.69 per 100k jobs, but this is size-driven: the metro ranks 58th by count yet 290th of 392 by rate, meaning the reading reflects Las Vegas's size rather than per-unit stress. The other two legs are quiet: layoff notices (WARN) show 0 notices with a 0.0% rate, and securitized loans in special servicing show only 3 rows at 0.71% of balance, ranking 52nd and 100th respectively. The disagreement pattern suggests lender stress with no employment event behind it (bank hot versus WARN quiet) and retail failing on buildings this tape does not hold (closures hot versus CMBS quiet), pointing toward localized distress concentrated in the banking channel rather than a broad-based pullback.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
7 closures | 0.69 per 100k jobs | 58 of 392 | 290 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 |
$2.49bn | 17.92% | 23 of 393 | 21 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 |
3 loan records | 0.71% | 52 of 335 | 100 of 335 | quiet 2026-07-29
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In Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV, the elevated distress signals are bank_distressed_cre and closures, indicating a confirmed phase of "peak" distress where leading (real-economy) and realized (credit) signals are firing together. On the bank side, 20.0% of bank CRE allocation is distressed, with 1.4 billion in distressed bank assets and $2.49bn in distressed lender CRE; 1.7% of total bank CRE is at risk at the 90th percentile. On the ground, there were 7 store closures in the past year. The CMBS special servicing reading is muted, at $45.0mm in UPB ( 0.7% of metro UPB), with 3 loans in special servicing and 0 WARN notices, so the CMBS side is not elevated. The convergence score is 2, meaning both credit and ground-level distress are confirmed, though materiality is "modest" given tens of millions of distressed CRE exposure. The reading for CMBS special servicing distress and WARN notices is available but not elevated; there is no unavailable figure here.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genubank NV | 100.0% | 129% total 232%
|
🔒 | 1.18% |
| American First National Bank TX | 8.9% | 258% total 487%
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🔒 | 0.40% |
| Valley Bank Of Nevada NV | 100.0% | 267% total 425%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Nevada Bank And Trust Company NV | 13.1% | 102% total 152%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Open Bank CA | 2.0% | 255% total 458%
|
🔒 | 3.02% |
| Town & Country Bank NV | 100.0% | 405% total 474%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Gbank NV | 100.0% | 487% total 534%
|
🔒 | 4.75% |
| United Business Bank CA | 0.8% | 402% total 555%
|
🔒 | 0.48% |
| Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Fsb DE | 0.0% | 225% total 301%
|
🔒 | 0.68% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gbank | $1.0B | 487% total 534%
|
4.75% | 🔒 |
| Beal Bank Usa | $1.7B | 64% total 65%
|
1.23% | 🔒 |
| Genubank | $85M | 129% total 232%
|
1.18% | 🔒 |
| Lexicon Bank | $166M | 161% total 353%
|
0.84% | 🔒 |
| First Security Bank Of Nevada | $182M | 178% total 233%
|
0.73% | 🔒 |
| Toyota Financial Savings Bank | $1.0B | 53% total 53%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Town & Country Bank | $153M | 405% total 474%
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0.00% | 🔒 |
| Valley Bank Of Nevada | $113M | 267% total 425%
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0.00% | 🔒 |
In Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV, the maturing CRE wall of $1.37bn across 56 loans likely outstrips local bank capacity, with a wall-to-room ratio of 17.33 that ranks it 9 of 270 most strained metros. However, only 9 banks qualify for lending here versus 15 excluded, and the reading is "tight" — an artifact of exclusion rather than scarcity, as lenders whose deposits don’t indicate local activity are invisible in this metric. Room after committed draws is $79.1mm, suggesting capacity to refinance the wall is unavailable without broader market participation.
In the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV metro over the past 365 days, on-the-ground commercial real estate activity shows 7 store closures, with 0 commercial real estate bankruptcies and 0 WARN notices filed, affecting 0 jobs (noting that headcount figures may be understated where notices omit them). While the closure count is notable, the absence of bankruptcies and layoff filings suggests these are isolated tenant exits rather than systemic distress — though the bankruptcy figure is a state-level proxy, not a metro-native count, so metro-specific filing data is unavailable in this reading.