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Commercial Real Estate Credit —
Ocala, FL

The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · FL
The read
$105M of CMBS across 12 loans. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029 ($49M, 46% 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 (85 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
$35M
Local Banks (stressed)
0 / 0
Bank Early-Warning
0 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
4
Layoff Notices (1y)
1 / 85 jobs 0.08% of metro employment
CMBS Loans / UPB
12 / $105M
Unemployment · Jul 2026
5.8% +0.7pp yr
Office-Using Jobs · 2024
12,623 -2.1% yr

How much CRE distress is there in Ocala, FL right now?

Ocala, FL is showing no elevated distress signals across the four independent feeds we track right now: store closures, WARN layoff notices, bank CRE noncurrents, and securitized loans in special servicing are all at quiet levels, with 6 of 6 pairs agreeing and 0 elevated. Store closures run at 4 over a trailing 365-day window (ranked 98th of 392 by count, 56th by rate at 3.86 per 100k jobs); WARN notices sit at 2 (ranked 166th of 386 by count, 196th by rate at 0.06% of employment); bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line is $93.2mm or 5.54% of the metro's allocated book (ranked 168th of 393 by count, 137th by rate); and the CMBS tape shows 0 rows in special servicing, 0.0% of its balance. The bank allocation caveat applies—only 5.5% of these dollars sit at banks that lend in one metro and need no allocation—but across the board, no reading is elevated.

The figures behind this answer
SignalLevel Rate Rank by count Rank by rate Reading
store closures
store closures per 100,000 jobs
4 closures 3.86 per 100k jobs 98 of 392 56 of 392 quiet
trailing 365 days to today
layoff notices (WARN)
workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment
2 notices 0.06% 166 of 386 196 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
$93.2mm 5.54% 168 of 393 137 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': 103643, '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': 153244, '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': 1681.3, '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': 105.0, '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 36100 · stress_metro · last changed 28 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →

Which distress signals are elevated in Ocala, FL, and which cannot be read?

In Ocala, FL, current distress signals are elevated only in isolated form: bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile stands at 35.1%, and distressed lender CRE totals $93.2mm, with bank CRE allocation at 5.5% (bank CRE total $1.68bn). However, the signal is deemed immaterial—there is "little to no distressed CRE dollars behind the signals"—and it is a "watch" phase with no convergence (convergence reading: 0). Readings that cannot be obtained include the CMBS special servicing UPB (stated as $0.0mm, with a 0.0% share of metro UPB), distressed bank assets (0), and any store-closure or WARN-notice figures for the past year (unavailable in the provided data). The phase sequence is also "no reading," and no elevated 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
$1.68bn
… at risk at the 90th percentile
35.1%
CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
$93.2mm
Assets at those lenders
$0.00bn
… share needing no branch-deposit allocation
5.5%
Legs agreeing
0
Phase
watch
CMBS loans in special servicing
0
Distressed banks
0
Store closures (past year)
4
WARN notices (past year)
2
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 36100 · geo_metro_signals · last changed 27 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →
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
5.8% +0.7pp yr
Last 24 months
3.9%6.3%
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
Office-using
12,623 jobs · -2.1% yr · 12% of all jobs
Retail trade
19,264 jobs · -0.4% yr
Industrial
5,496 jobs · -3.6% yr
Annual employment by sector (BLS QCEW, 2024; 103,643 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 (12) 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 →
$35M — 33% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already distressed.
2026
$1M · 1 loan · 0.0%
2027
$6M · 1 loan · 0.0%
2028
$28M · 1 loan · 0.0%
2029
$49M · 4 loans · 0.0%
2030
$11M · 2 loans · 0.0%
2031
$3M · 1 loan · 0.0%
2032
$5M · 1 loan · 0.0%
2035
$3M · 1 loan · 0.0%
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Realized distress is FLAT0.0% 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 $105M of the metro's $105M; each bar's colored share is its distress rate.
Ocala — Southwest
$57M · 0.0%
Ocala — Core
$32M · 0.0%
Ocala — Southeast
$16M · 0.0%
Bank Door — what the local bank sector could absorbSee it on every loan’s exit read →
$35M of CMBS matures here within two years. The 8 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly $83M more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is 0.42× that room. The median metro sits at 0.12×.
Regional Bank Room
$83M
After Committed Draws
$29M / −65%
Maturing ÷ Room
0.42×
Banks In Footprint
8 / 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 $69M of construction committed and not yet advanced, of which $54M comes out of the room above, leaving $29M, with 3 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 $16M 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: 1 of 8 is past it on drawn balances alone, and 5 more cross it once their own commitments fund.
Counted — 8 regional & local CRE lenders
BankDeposit shareCRE / Capital*Room contributedNoncurrent CRE
Seacoast National Bank FL 1.4% 230%
total 325%
🔒 0.57%
Brannen Bank FL 15.7% 140%
total 202%
🔒 0.01%
Cogent Bank FL 3.6% 162%
total 276%
🔒 0.32%
United Southern Bank FL 17.8% 224%
total 279%
🔒 0.18%
Ameris Bank GA 0.8% 263%
total 319%
🔒 0.12%
Gulf Atlantic Bank FL 49.3% 231%
total 374%
🔒 0.00%
Mainstreet Community Bank Of Florida FL 8.3% 292%
total 529%
🔒 1.94%
Millennium Bank TN 7.0% 382%
total 544%
🔒 0.61%
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
Truist Bank NC · Wells Fargo Bank, National Association SD · Regions Bank AL · Bank Of America, National Association NC · Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · Pnc Bank, National Association DE · First Federal Bank FL · Td Bank, National Association DE · Fifth Third Bank, National Association OH
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
Bank Ozk AR · Southstate Bank, National Association FL · Renasant Bank MS
* 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 →
No locally-headquartered banks in our FDIC data for this metro.

Do the banks lending in Ocala, FL have the capacity to refinance its maturing CRE?

Ocala, FL’s $34.9mm CMBS wall maturing within 24 months runs at 1.21 times the $28.9mm of room its regional and community banks have left after committed draws, ranking it 49 of 270 metros counting from the most strained. That strain, however, is exclusion-driven: only 8 banks qualify as lenders here versus 3 excluded (nationals, card and charter banks whose deposits don’t indicate local lending), so the reading is likely an artifact rather than a credit event—and the metro’s 0.0% distressed share supports that. With $82.8mm of room before committed draws (a 0.42 ratio), the banks have ample capacity to refinance the maturing balance if they choose, though the wall is CMBS-only and room remains a deposit-footprint proxy, not a guarantee of lending appetite.

The figures behind this answer
CMBS maturing in the window
$34.9mm
… across this many loans
3
Local bank room, before committed draws
$82.8mm
Committed construction draws
$69.4mm
Local bank room, after those draws
$28.9mm
Wall-to-room ratio
1.21
Rank, most strained
49
… out of this many metros ranked
270
… before committed draws
0.42
Population ranked against
CMBS maturing within 24 months against regional/community bank room in this metro
Qualifying local banks
8
… excluded from the calculation
3
Distressed share of this metro's CMBS
0.0%
Total CMBS balance here
$104.8mm
Capacity band
over
Compared against a median wall-to-room ratio of 0.20 across the ranked metros.
1.21 is ABOVE the median of 0.20, so this metro is MORE strained than the typical ranked metro
49 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 36100 · capacity_metro · last changed 06 Sep 2026 · Ask your own question →
On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
5 local distress events in the past year (85 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-09-02
BANKRUPTCY
TWINLAB CONSOLIDATED HOLDINGS, INC.
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2026-08-10
CLOSURE
Tractor Supply
Ocala
2026-07-23
CLOSURE
Pink Hanger
Ocala
2026-07-22
CLOSURE
Diggers Antique Mall
Ocala
2026-07-02
BANKRUPTCY
Landlord
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2026-03-02
BANKRUPTCY
Miami Beach hotel operator
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2025-12-31
CLOSURE
JoAnn
Ocala
2025-12-24
BANKRUPTCY
Mandarin Oriental Boca Raton
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2025-10-21
LAYOFF
Niagara Bottling, LLC
85 jobs · OCALA
2025-07-16
LAYOFF
KIRA Services LLC and KIRA Training Services
14 jobs · ALTOONA
2024-12-13
CLOSURE
Save-A-Lot
Ocala
2024-10-31
CLOSURE
Conn's
Ocala
2023-08-11
LAYOFF
Yellow Corporation
19 jobs · OCALA
2022-02-08
LAYOFF
Camelot Community Care, Inc.
10 jobs · OCALA
2021-01-06
LAYOFF
The Opici Company/Opici Family Distributing of Florida
41 jobs · OCALA

What has actually happened on the ground in Ocala, FL recently?

In the Ocala, FL metro over the past 365 days, there have been 1 WARN notice, affecting 85 jobs, alongside 5 store closures and 4 CRE-likely bankruptcy filings (a state proxy, not metro-native). The reading for store closures, layoffs, and bankruptcies is available from vetted data, with no additional on-the-ground metrics provided.

The figures behind this answer
Store closures
5
WARN layoff notices
1
Jobs on those notices
85
CRE-related bankruptcies
4
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 36100 · geo_events · last changed 06 Sep 2026 · Ask your own question →
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