Orlando runs $1.7 billion of CMBS across 92 loans, and the distress rate in the filed record sits at 2.4% as of July 2026 — modest on its face, but rising. That is the number to watch here: a book that has held up is now moving in one direction, off a low base, with a median DSCR of 1.52 still providing cushion.
Hospitality is the largest concentration at $511 million, and none of it is distressed today — a striking contrast with the 6.1% national rate for the sector. Office, at roughly $0.4 billion, carries a 2.6% distress rate against an 11.3% national mark, and retail's 2.4% runs just inside the 2.7% national figure. Industrial and multifamily books show no distress on the page. The heaviest refinancing test lands in 2028, when $480 million — 28% of the book — comes due; that vintage is 2.0% distressed for now.
The on-the-ground record adds texture the loan tape doesn't capture: 54 distress events over the past year — 28 store closures and 26 layoff notices — touching 4,336 jobs. With unemployment at 4.7% and office-using employment essentially flat, the metro's credit picture is one of low headline distress against a filed record that has started to climb.
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL shows clear signs of commercial real estate distress, with three of four monitored signals elevated. Store closures are running at 1.81 per 100,000 jobs (ranked 22nd by count), and layoff notices are at 0.29% of metro employment (ranked 20th by count). Bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line is elevated at 8.33% of the CRE lent into the metro, with $964.5mm over the line. Securitized loans in special servicing is the quiet leg at 2.49% of the securitized balance read here, with 4 rows in special servicing — a reading that's unavailable for any of the other legs' denominators.
Of the six pairwise comparisons, three agree on elevation (closures+WARN, closures+bank, WARN+bank) and three disagree. The disagreements point to specific structural stories: closures are hot while the securitized tape is quiet, reading as "retail is failing on buildings this tape does not hold"; WARN is hot while the tape is quiet, reading as "employers are cutting and the securitized book has not moved"; and bank CRE is hot while the tape is quiet, reading as "the lenders here are stressed on a book the tape cannot see." The common thread across all three disagreements is the quiet CMBS leg — the securitized book simply is not showing the same stress as the other feeds. The tape holds only its own non-pari-passu slice, and its silence is a fact about that book, not evidence the metro is free of distress. The metro's distress is concentrated in the bank-and-employment channels, while the securitized channel has not yet moved.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
23 closures | 1.81 per 100k jobs | 22 of 392 | 190 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 |
45 notices | 0.29% | 20 of 386 | 76 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 |
$964.5mm | 8.33% | 43 of 393 | 89 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 |
4 loan records | 2.49% | 42 of 335 | 87 of 335 | quiet 2026-07-29
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In Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL, the distinct distress signals that are elevated are bank_distressed_cre, closures, and warn — that is, distressed bank exposure and recorded closures/layoffs. Before I cite any figures, note: one of the elevated signals (bank_distressed_cre) is directly visible in the data, while the other two (closures, warn) are named but their underlying figures are not given to me; I can only state that they are listed as elevated. What I can read quantitatively: the bank-level distressed-CRE reading shows distressed_lender_cre of $964.5mm, and the bank’s CRE exposure is elevated at the 90th percentile (28.8% of bank CRE at risk), with 2.5% of bank assets allocated to CRE (total $11.57bn). Also, distressed bank assets are 0.2 (in billions). On the CMBS side, special servicing is 2.5% of metro UPB ($43.0mm), with 4 CMBS loans in special servicing. What cannot be read from the provided figures: the store-closure count (23) and WARN-notice count (45) are listed as elevated but the actual figures are not among the STATED numbers I can quote; their readings are unavailable. The “convergence” indicator is 3, and the phase is early. No other figures are available for those two signals.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seacoast National Bank FL | 14.0% | 230% total 325%
|
🔒 | 0.57% |
| Cogent Bank FL | 45.3% | 162% total 276%
|
🔒 | 0.32% |
| Axiom Bank, National Association FL | 76.3% | 171% total 188%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| United Southern Bank FL | 80.0% | 224% total 279%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| Banco Do Brasil Americas FL | 7.0% | 108% total 119%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| City National Bank Of Florida FL | 3.1% | 258% total 307%
|
🔒 | 0.37% |
| Climate First Bank FL | 34.6% | 261% total 347%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Bankunited, National Association FL | 0.6% | 194% total 243%
|
🔒 | 0.62% |
| First National Banker's Bank LA | 10.1% | 189% total 233%
|
🔒 | 1.00% |
| Ameris Bank GA | 1.3% | 263% total 319%
|
🔒 | 0.12% |
| American Momentum Bank TX | 2.4% | 173% total 214%
|
🔒 | 4.40% |
| Florida Capital Bank, National Association FL | 18.8% | 228% total 318%
|
🔒 | 0.24% |
| Centennial Bank AR | 0.6% | 257% total 315%
|
🔒 | 0.46% |
| One Florida Bank FL | 96.6% | 298% total 433%
|
🔒 | 0.12% |
| Bankflorida FL | 29.6% | 281% total 437%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Surety Bank FL | 5.2% | 121% total 267%
|
🔒 | 0.27% |
| Mainstreet Community Bank Of Florida FL | 27.2% | 292% total 529%
|
🔒 | 1.94% |
| First Southern Bank AL | 0.8% | 171% total 243%
|
🔒 | 2.46% |
| Sunrise Bank FL | 48.3% | 387% total 582%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Central Bank FL | 21.5% | 398% total 588%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Amerasia Bank NY | 10.6% | 354% total 406%
|
🔒 | 1.90% |
| Ocean Bank FL | 0.4% | 528% total 621%
|
🔒 | 0.36% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commerce Bank & Trust | $76M | 163% total 368%
|
5.39% | 🔒 |
| United Southern Bank | $262M | 224% total 279%
|
0.18% | 🔒 |
| Cogent Bank | $724M | 162% total 276%
|
0.32% | 🔒 |
| One Florida Bank | $955M | 298% total 433%
|
0.12% | 🔒 |
| Sunrise Bank | $343M | 387% total 582%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Axiom Bank, National Association | $166M | 171% total 188%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| First Colony Bank Of Florida | $156M | 239% total 485%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| The First National Bank Of Mount Dora | $54M | 74% total 124%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
For Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL, the banks lending here appear stretched relative to the CMBS maturity wall. With 22 qualifying banks, the maturing balance is $473.7mm across 22 loans, while the room after committed draws is $370.0mm — putting the wall-to-room ratio at 1.28, which is ABOVE the median of 0.20 and ranks 45 of 270 counting from the most strained. Notably, only 9 banks were excluded here, and the reading isn’t explained by an exclusion artifact, so this strain looks genuine. Still, room is a deposit-footprint proxy, and the wall is CMBS-only, so the ratio is an upper bound on local absorption — but at this level, refinancing capacity looks tight unless committed draws unwind.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPT | +3.1% | -0.4% | 96.2% | -0.8% | 2026-07-30 |
| MAA | +1.3% | -0.1% | 95.5% | -0.1% | 2026-07-29 |
| UDR | +0.1% | -0.7% | 96.7% | -1.1% | 2026-07-27 |
In the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro over the past 365 days, the ground truth shows 26 WARN notices affecting 4,336 jobs and 24 store closures, alongside 4 CRE-likely bankruptcies (state-proxy count, not metro-native). These numbers reflect only approved, ZIP-matched events; pending filings are excluded, and the jobs figure is a floor since notices without headcounts contribute zero.