Commercial Real Estate Credit —
Lexington-Fayette, KY
The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · KY
The read
$447M of CMBS across 23 loans. Distress is rising in the filed record — 1.1% as of 2026-07. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029 ($195M, 44% of the book). Multifamily is the largest book ($136M, 0.0% distressed). 10 on-the-ground distress events in the past year (2,065 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
$5M / 1.1%
in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$33M
Local Banks (stressed)
0 / 7
Bank Early-Warning
0 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
4
Layoff Notices (1y)
6 / 2,065 jobs
0.89% of metro employment
CMBS Loans / UPB
23 / $447M
Unemployment · Jul 2026
4.4%
-0.1pp yr
How much CRE distress is there in Lexington-Fayette, KY right now?
In Lexington-Fayette, KY, CRE distress is currently quiet across all four independent feeds. Store closures sit at 5 closures, with a rate of 2.15 per 100k jobs (ranked 83rd by count, 154th by rate out of 392 metros). WARN layoff notices are at 5 notices, a 0.73% rate (96th by count, 14th by rate out of 386). Bank CRE over the noncurrent line is $90.5mm, a 1.14% rate (171st by count, 285th by rate out of 393), though only 16.0% of these dollars sit at banks that lend in one metro and need no allocation. Securitized loans in special servicing read $391.0mm in balance, with 0 rows and a 0.0% rate (220th by both out of 335). All six pairwise comparisons agree on quietness — none show elevation, none disagree — indicating no single mechanism (retail failure, large-employer distress, lender stress, or CMBS trouble) is running hot here. Notably, the CMBS leg is tightest to the property and shows zero distress, and WARN, a legal filing rather than an observation, is also silent.
The figures behind this answer
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
5 closures | 2.15 per 100k jobs | 83 of 392 | 154 of 392 | quiet trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
5 notices | 0.73% | 96 of 386 | 14 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 |
$90.5mm | 1.14% | 171 of 393 | 285 of 393 | quiet
allocated 2026-03-31
|
| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
0 loan records | 0% | 220 of 335 | 220 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': 232176, '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': 269752, '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': 7962.7, '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': 391.0, '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 30460 · stress_metro · last changed 28 Aug 2026
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Which distress signals are elevated in Lexington-Fayette, KY, and which cannot be read?
In Lexington-Fayette, KY, distress signals are present but not credit-material: lender-side stress is limited, with distressed lender CRE at $90.5mm and bank CRE at risk (90th percentile) at 15.0%, while bank CRE allocation is 16.0%. CMBS special-servicing exposure is effectively zero, with 0.0%-of-metro-UPB and $0.0mm in special servicing, and there are no distressed banks (assets: 0). The signal convergence is 0, meaning no unified distress is detected; the phase is "watch" because the reading is an isolated signal, not a convergence. The only unavailable metric is the overall distressed-bank-assets figure in billions (0 is stated, but a clear dollar reading is not provided), and no elevated distress signals are listed for this metro.
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
- $7.96bn
- … at risk at the 90th percentile
- 15.0%
- CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
- $90.5mm
- Assets at those lenders
- $0.00bn
- … share needing no branch-deposit allocation
- 16.0%
- Legs agreeing
- 0
- Phase
- watch
- CMBS loans in special servicing
- 0
- Distressed banks
- 0
- Store closures (past year)
- 5
- WARN notices (past year)
- 5
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 30460 · 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 · Jul 2026
4.4%
-0.1pp yr
Last 24 months
2.9%4.8%
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; 232,176 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 (23) to say whether this metro's rate is explained by its property mix — that comparison needs 25. 0 of 1 property types here run a higher distress rate than the national average for that type (the tick on each bar).
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, distress within eachSee what’s maturing →
$33M — 7% 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 RISING — 1.1% now (2026-07), +1.1pp 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 $314M of the metro's $447M; 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 →
$33M of CMBS matures here within two years.
The 23 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly
$936M more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is
0.03× that room.
The median metro sits at 0.12×.
Regional Bank Room
$936M
After Committed Draws
$489M / −48%
Maturing ÷ Room
0.03×
Banks In Footprint
23 / 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 $849M of construction committed and not yet
advanced, of which $446M
comes out of the room above, leaving $489M,
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 $402M 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:
9 more cross it
once their own commitments fund.
Counted — 23 regional & local CRE lenders
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Trust Bank, Inc. KY | 14.5% | 165% total 206%
|
🔒 | 0.39% |
| Central Bank & Trust Co. KY | 77.4% | 261% total 333%
|
🔒 | 0.01% |
| Republic Bank & Trust Company KY | 8.0% | 125% total 186%
|
🔒 | 0.25% |
| Whitaker Bank KY | 23.5% | 133% total 218%
|
🔒 | 0.15% |
| Traditional Bank, Inc. KY | 61.4% | 267% total 332%
|
🔒 | 0.04% |
| Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company KY | 9.3% | 248% total 359%
|
🔒 | 0.20% |
| City National Bank Of West Virginia WV | 8.7% | 206% total 241%
|
🔒 | 0.30% |
| The Farmers Bank KY | 100.0% | 145% total 178%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Southern National Bank KY | 11.2% | 147% total 212%
|
🔒 | 0.14% |
| Peoples Exchange Bank KY | 59.9% | 246% total 359%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Bank Of Lexington, Inc. KY | 100.0% | 258% total 305%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Bank Of The Bluegrass And Trust Company KY | 100.0% | 256% total 383%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Independence Bank Of Kentucky KY | 3.5% | 160% total 243%
|
🔒 | 0.05% |
| Forcht Bank, National Association KY | 9.7% | 249% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Citizens Bank Of Kentucky, Inc. KY | 2.5% | 121% total 191%
|
🔒 | 0.39% |
| The Citizens National Bank Of Somerset KY | 3.2% | 151% total 184%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Peoples Bank Of Kentucky, Inc. KY | 1.5% | 101% total 134%
|
🔒 | 5.77% |
| South Central Bank, Inc. KY | 4.6% | 284% total 387%
|
🔒 | 0.15% |
| The Monticello Banking Company KY | 3.2% | 258% total 347%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Cumberland Valley National Bank & Trust Company KY | 4.0% | 261% total 378%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| The First National Bank Of Manchester KY | 0.5% | 207% total 306%
|
🔒 | 0.62% |
| Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company VA | 1.2% | 335% total 424%
|
🔒 | 1.24% |
| The Farmers National Bank Of Danville KY | 0.0% | 187% total 257%
|
🔒 | 1.25% |
Not counted — 12 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
Fifth Third Bank, National Association OH · Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · Pnc Bank, National Association DE · Bank Of America, National Association NC · Truist Bank NC · U.s. Bank National Association OH · Guardian Savings Bank OH · The Home Savings And Loan Company Of Kenton, Ohio, Dba Hslc OH
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
Wesbanco Bank, Inc. WV · Peoples Bank OH · Old National Bank IN · 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 →
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitaker Bank | $550M | 133% total 218%
|
0.15% | 🔒 |
| Bank Of The Bluegrass And Trust Company | $169M | 256% total 383%
|
0.06% | 🔒 |
| Central Bank & Trust Co. | $1.8B | 261% total 333%
|
0.01% | 🔒 |
| Forcht Bank, National Association | $492M | 249% total 329%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Peoples Exchange Bank | $223M | 246% total 359%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Bank Of Lexington, Inc. | $146M | 258% total 305%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| The Farmers Bank | $57M | 145% total 178%
|
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 Lexington-Fayette, KY have the capacity to refinance its maturing CRE?
Lexington-Fayette, KY reads as having slack capacity to refinance its maturing CMBS. The wall-to-room ratio is 0.07 and, before deducting committed draws, 0.03 — both well below the median of 0.20, placing it at 207 of 270 ranked from the most strained (lower is worse) for a more favorable position. This stems from 23 qualifying banks offering $935.6mm in room before committed draws and $489.1mm after, against a modest $32.6mm maturing balance across 2 loans, leaving ample headroom even after the $848.6mm in committed draws. The distressed share is just 1.1%, and with the $447.1mm CMBS UPB, this market appears comfortably positioned, though the reading excludes 4 banks and reflects only the CMBS wall visible, not the full maturity load.
The figures behind this answer
- CMBS maturing in the window
- $32.6mm
- … across this many loans
- 2
- Local bank room, before committed draws
- $935.6mm
- Committed construction draws
- $848.6mm
- Local bank room, after those draws
- $489.1mm
- Wall-to-room ratio
- 0.07
- Rank, most strained
- 207
- … out of this many metros ranked
- 270
- … before committed draws
- 0.03
- Population ranked against
- CMBS maturing within 24 months against regional/community bank room in this metro
- Qualifying local banks
- 23
- … excluded from the calculation
- 4
- Distressed share of this metro's CMBS
- 1.1%
- Total CMBS balance here
- $447.1mm
- Capacity band
- slack
Compared against a median wall-to-room ratio of
0.20 across the ranked metros.
0.07 is BELOW the median of 0.20, so this metro is LESS strained than the typical ranked metro
207 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 30460 · capacity_metro · last changed 06 Sep 2026
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On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
10 local distress events in the past year (2,065 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-09-10
LAYOFF
90 jobs · Lexington
2026-08-15
LAYOFF
32 jobs · Fayette
2026-07-31
CLOSURE
Lexington
2026-07-15
CLOSURE
Lexington
2026-07-06
CLOSURE
Lexington
2026-06-30
LAYOFF
923 jobs · Fayette
2026-06-30
LAYOFF
923 jobs · Fayette
2026-06-30
LAYOFF
36 jobs · Fayette
2026-06-30
LAYOFF
61 jobs · Fayette
2025-12-02
CLOSURE
Lexington
2025-08-04
CLOSURE
Lexington
2016-05-25
LAYOFF
143 jobs · Fayette
2016-05-15
LAYOFF
229 jobs · Bourbon
2015-09-05
LAYOFF
91 jobs · Scott
2015-06-29
LAYOFF
62 jobs · Clark
What has actually happened on the ground in Lexington-Fayette, KY recently?
In the Lexington-Fayette, KY metro over the past 365 days, ground-level distress has been limited, with the reading showing 0 CRE-related bankruptcies. However, labor-market stress is more pronounced: there have been 5 WARN notices affecting 1,975 jobs, alongside 5 store closures. Notably, the jobs figure is a floor because notices without a stated headcount contribute zero, though no such zero-headcount notices are identified here. The bankruptcy count uses a state proxy—not a metro-native count—and reflects filings in the states where this metro’s collateral sits, so this should be treated as an indicative, not exact, reading. Store-closure and layoff data are matched by ZIP code to the metro, and only approved rows count; pending or machine-extracted entries are excluded.
The figures behind this answer
- Store closures
- 5
- WARN layoff notices
- 5
- Jobs on those notices
- 1,975
- CRE-related bankruptcies
- 0
- 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 30460 · geo_events · last changed 27 Aug 2026
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