Las Vegas carries $6.4 billion of CMBS across 181 loans, and by the servicer's own record the book is quiet: distress sits at 0.8% as of July 2026, and it has held flat. The two pillars of the metro's exposure are retail and hospitality, each a $2.2 billion book, and both show 0.0% distressed in the filed record — a contrast worth naming against national rates of 2.6% for retail and 6.2% for hospitality. Office is a smaller presence here at $0.8 billion, against an 11.1% national office distress rate, and the metro's median DSCR of 2.23 underscores how much cushion the performing book still carries.
The maturity wall is less a wall than a single tall year. The heaviest load lands in 2029 at $2.0 billion, 31% of the book and so far 0.0% distressed, with another $1.4 billion due in 2032. Only $1.4 billion comes due inside the next 24 months, so the refinancing test that matters most is still several years out rather than pressing on the desk now.
Beneath the quiet filed numbers, the ground is not silent. The metro logged 7 on-the-ground distress events over the past year, including six store closures — the kind of early signal that does not yet register in a servicer's delinquency tape. For now the paper read and the street read diverge, and credit teams watching Las Vegas should hold both in view.
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%
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🔒 | 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 | 9.4% | 102% total 152%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Open Bank CA | 2.5% | 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%
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4.75% | 🔒 |
| Beal Bank Usa | $1.7B | 64% total 65%
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1.23% | 🔒 |
| Genubank | $85M | 129% total 232%
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1.18% | 🔒 |
| Lexicon Bank | $166M | 161% total 353%
|
0.84% | 🔒 |
| First Security Bank Of Nevada | $182M | 178% total 233%
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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% | 🔒 |
The Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV metro screens as strained on this measure — 58 maturing loans totaling $1.40bn against bank room of $77.7mm after committed draws, a wall-to-room ratio of 18.00 (versus 14.53 before committed draws) that ranks 10 of 275 counting from the most strained. That reading should not be taken at face value, however: 16 banks are excluded here against 9 qualifying, and this metro is flagged as explained by exclusion, meaning the ratio is as much an artifact of which lenders this read can see as evidence that credit is scarce. Room is a proxy built on deposit footprint, and the wall of $6.42bn in CMBS is the debt this platform can see maturing within 24 months rather than the metro's whole maturity load, so 18.00 is an upper bound on what local banks would have to absorb; a distressed share of 0.8% does not point to credit stress driving the number.
Over the trailing 365 days, the on-the-ground footprint data for Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV shows 6 store closures and 1 warn notices, with jobs_affected at 0 — a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute nothing. CRE-likely bankruptcies read 0, though that figure is a STATE PROXY rather than a metro-native count, so it should not be read as zero CRE distress specific to this metro.