Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim sits on $17.7B of CMBS across 654 loans, and office is the weight that matters: a $7.1B book running 5.4% distressed. That is elevated for the metro, but it is running at half the national office rate of 10.9% — a real distinction for desks pricing West Coast office risk off the headline number. Multifamily, a far smaller $1.4B book, carries the higher distress mark at 8.2%, a touch above the 7.8% national read.
The filed record is flat. Distress stands at 3.8% as of July 2026, and the metro-wide CMBS distress rate is 3.9% on $0.7B — a book that has not been moving. Median DSCR of 1.96 points to coverage that is holding across the performing loans. The maturity wall is deferred rather than imminent: the heaviest load lands in 2029 at $4.4B, a quarter of the book, and that vintage is only 2.0% distressed today. The nearer 2027 slug of $2.6B carries the hotter mark at 5.5%.
The on-the-ground signal is where the strain shows. The past year brought 338 distress events — 92 store closures and 246 layoff notices — touching 18,526 jobs, even as metro unemployment eased to 4.8% in August 2026, down a full point year over year. Office-using employment slipped 0.8% over the same stretch. The lender picture is contained: of 50 banks tracked, 5 are distressed with another 14 flagged early-warning.
In Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, all four vetted distress signals are elevated right now, with 4 of 4 legs reading hot and all 6 possible pairwise comparisons agreeing there is distress — no pairs are quiet and none disagree.
Store closures are the standout: the metro ranks 1st of 392 metros by count with 133 closures, at a rate of 2.45 per 100,000 jobs, though that rate rank is 126th — the level is driven by the metro's enormous job base. WARN layoff notices are also 1st of 386 with 439 notices, a 0.33% share of employment. Bank CRE over the noncurrent line sits at $14,276.8 million (11.12% of allocated CRE, 4th of 393 by count), and securitized loans in special servicing total 39 rows (3.71% of the tracked balance, 4th of 335). All four legs are elevated regardless of whether you rank by raw count or rate, with no blind legs and no size-driven readings to discount.
The unanimous agreement across all six pairs is structurally meaningful: closures and WARN both point to real distress at the tenant level, bank and CMBS stress both show up on the lender side, and even the bank-CMBS pair — two genuinely different books that often diverge — agrees here. No measurement caveat undermines the picture; the only nuance is that the bank leg is allocated by branch deposits rather than confirmed at the property, but the CMBS leg, which is property-located, corroborates it.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
133 closures | 2.45 per 100k jobs | 1 of 392 | 126 of 392 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
439 notices | 0.33% | 1 of 386 | 60 of 386 | elevated 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 |
$14.28bn | 11.12% | 4 of 393 | 56 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 |
39 loan records | 3.71% | 4 of 335 | 79 of 335 | elevated 2026-07-29
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In Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, distress signals are elevated across both credit and real-economy metrics: bank-distressed CRE exposure is material at $14.28bn, with 21.6% of bank CRE at risk (90th percentile) and distressed bank assets of 12.60; CMBS special servicing is also elevated at $650.0mm, representing 3.7% of metro UPB; and ground-level signals are firing with 133 store closures and 439 WARN notices over one year. The signal convergence reading is 4. The reading for bank CRE allocation share is unavailable.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smbc Manubank CA | 100.0% | 155% total 182%
|
🔒 | 0.13% |
| Farmers And Merchants Bank Of Long Beach CA | 96.3% | 255% total 299%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Ctbc Bank Corp. (Usa) CA | 52.4% | 214% total 252%
|
🔒 | 2.90% |
| First General Bank CA | 100.0% | 206% total 272%
|
🔒 | 1.99% |
| New Omni Bank, National Association CA | 100.0% | 130% total 147%
|
🔒 | 9.43% |
| Everbank, National Association FL | 3.8% | 169% total 175%
|
🔒 | 1.03% |
| First Bank MO | 27.1% | 184% total 273%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| First Commercial Bank (Usa) CA | 68.5% | 163% total 191%
|
🔒 | 1.96% |
| Banc Of California CA | 58.0% | 291% total 334%
|
🔒 | 4.24% |
| Citizens Business Bank, National Association CA | 40.0% | 281% total 406%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Industrial And Commercial Bank Of China Usa, National Association NY | 20.4% | 154% total 183%
|
🔒 | 11.70% |
| Evertrust Bank CA | 71.4% | 211% total 253%
|
🔒 | 0.44% |
| Open Bank CA | 92.0% | 255% total 458%
|
🔒 | 3.02% |
| Commonwealth Business Bank CA | 67.2% | 259% total 453%
|
🔒 | 1.29% |
| Calprivate Bank CA | 49.4% | 252% total 431%
|
🔒 | 0.40% |
| Mission Valley Bank CA | 100.0% | 225% total 397%
|
🔒 | 0.17% |
| Hana Bank Usa, National Association NJ | 18.5% | 145% total 173%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Israel Discount Bank Of New York NY | 6.7% | 250% total 347%
|
🔒 | 0.68% |
| American Continental Bank CA | 82.2% | 196% total 264%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Community Commerce Bank CA | 100.0% | 225% total 284%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Bank Of Whittier, National Association CA | 84.8% | 107% total 228%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| American First National Bank TX | 17.0% | 258% total 487%
|
🔒 | 0.40% |
| State Bank Of India (California) CA | 47.5% | 276% total 327%
|
🔒 | 1.91% |
| Shinhan Bank America NY | 20.2% | 257% total 382%
|
🔒 | 0.88% |
| Gbc International Bank CA | 65.6% | 269% total 379%
|
🔒 | 0.12% |
| First Pacific Bank CA | 73.3% | 243% total 395%
|
🔒 | 0.31% |
| Banner Bank WA | 2.0% | 253% total 379%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| Mission Bank CA | 17.9% | 263% total 424%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Beneficial State Bank CA | 13.9% | 285% total 395%
|
🔒 | 3.44% |
| Balboa Thrift And Loan Association CA | 15.6% | 235% total 238%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Beach Cities Commercial Bank CA | 80.0% | 273% total 633%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| United Pacific Bank CA | 100.0% | 375% total 461%
|
🔒 | 2.60% |
| Universal Bank CA | 100.0% | 347% total 368%
|
🔒 | 3.91% |
| Eastern International Bank CA | 100.0% | 365% total 425%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Malaga Bank F.s.b. CA | 100.0% | 473% total 473%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Pacific Alliance Bank CA | 100.0% | 407% total 443%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Mega Bank CA | 100.0% | 372% total 450%
|
🔒 | 1.93% |
| American Plus Bank, N.a. CA | 100.0% | 455% total 483%
|
🔒 | 0.04% |
| Partners Bank Of California CA | 100.0% | 365% total 548%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Genesis Bank CA | 97.2% | 442% total 532%
|
🔒 | 0.05% |
| Oneunited Bank MA | 92.1% | 609% total 611%
|
🔒 | 0.38% |
| Us Metro Bank CA | 87.4% | 393% total 560%
|
🔒 | 1.97% |
| Pcb Bank CA | 85.8% | 304% total 471%
|
🔒 | 0.13% |
| Preferred Bank CA | 82.2% | 357% total 380%
|
🔒 | 2.33% |
| Golden State Bank CA | 80.4% | 420% total 612%
|
🔒 | 1.02% |
| Commercial Bank Of California CA | 77.3% | 470% total 592%
|
🔒 | 0.02% |
| Sunwest Bank UT | 76.4% | 327% total 467%
|
🔒 | 0.49% |
| Liberty Bank, National Association CA | 52.6% | 480% total 519%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| California Bank Of Commerce, National Association CA | 35.2% | 313% total 437%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| Habib American Bank NY | 33.9% | 526% total 599%
|
🔒 | 0.85% |
| Golden Bank, National Association TX | 22.3% | 327% total 505%
|
🔒 | 2.27% |
| City First Bank, National Association DC | 20.6% | 378% total 438%
|
🔒 | 1.20% |
| United Business Bank CA | 17.6% | 402% total 555%
|
🔒 | 0.48% |
| Southwestern National Bank TX | 14.9% | 321% total 540%
|
🔒 | 0.34% |
| Mechanics Bank CA | 11.7% | 340% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.30% |
| Poppy Bank CA | 10.7% | 360% total 557%
|
🔒 | 2.15% |
| Wallis Bank TX | 8.0% | 419% total 676%
|
🔒 | 1.67% |
| First Western Trust Bank CO | 0.0% | 312% total 384%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Omni Bank, National Association | $211M | 130% total 147%
|
9.43% | 🔒 |
| First Credit Bank | $361M | 110% total 146%
|
3.21% | 🔒 |
| Banc Of California | $11.9B | 291% total 334%
|
4.24% | 🔒 |
| Universal Bank | $250M | 347% total 368%
|
3.91% | 🔒 |
| Open Bank | $1.4B | 255% total 458%
|
3.02% | 🔒 |
| Preferred Bank | $3.8B | 357% total 380%
|
2.33% | 🔒 |
| Us Metro Bank | $1.0B | 393% total 560%
|
1.97% | 🔒 |
| Mega Bank | $362M | 372% total 450%
|
1.93% | 🔒 |
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA screens as more strained than the typical metro on bank refinancing capacity: its CMBS wall of $4.84bn across 203 maturing loans compares to regional and community bank room of $2.82bn after committed construction draws, a wall_to_room of 1.71 (rank_most_strained 43 of 275), and even before those draws are deducted the ratio is 1.01 against room_before_committed of $4.78bn. That said, only 58 banks_qualifying are captured here versus 25 banks_excluded_here, so the reading partly reflects a deposit-footprint proxy rather than measured lending capacity, and the wall itself is the $17.71bn CMBS balance maturing within 24 months — an upper bound on what local banks would need to absorb, not the metro's full maturity load.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVB | — | +1.5% | 96.0% | +1.6% | 2026-07-30 |
| CPT | +1.8% | +3.6% | 95.1% | +1.4% | 2026-04-30 |
| EQR | -1.0% | +0.7% | 95.7% | +0.7% | 2026-04-28 |
| ESS | — | +1.5% | 95.7% | — | 2026-07-30 |
| UDR | +2.5% | +2.0% | 96.3% | +2.7% | 2026-07-27 |
Over the last 365 days, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro shows 246 WARN notices, with 18,526 jobs affected, alongside 92 store closures and 61 CRE-likely bankruptcies. Two caveats matter for reading these: the jobs figure is a floor, since notices stating no headcount count toward the notice tally but contribute 0 jobs, and the bankruptcy count is a state-level proxy rather than a metro-native count, so it should not be read as activity specific to this metro's properties.