For Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL (CBSA 37340), distress is uneven across the four feeds. Of the six possible pairings, zero are both elevated and three are both quiet, with three pairs disagreeing — the clearest signal being that WARN layoff notices are elevated while the other legs are not.
The one elevated reading is layoff notices (WARN), at 9 notices for a rate of 0.23% of the metro's employment (ranked 60th of 386 by count, 104th by rate). That lone spike reads structurally as "a large-employer event rather than a retail one," and the disagreement with the securitized book (which is quiet) is described as "employers are cutting and the securitized book has not moved."
On the other side, store closures are 0.47 per 100k jobs (ranked 258th of 392 by count, 300th by rate), bank CRE over the noncurrent line is 12.3% of allocated dollars (ranked 117th of 393, 45th by rate), and securitized loans in special servicing are 7.08% of the tape balance (ranked 90th of 335, 60th by rate). When bank and CMBS agree quiet, the note says a metro can run hot on one and cold on the other with neither reading wrong — but here, both are cold, suggesting lenders' books are not yet showing stress.
The three quiet-quiet pairs and three disagreements make this a metro where employment is the only active distress channel so far; the property-level and lender-level reads have not followed. There are no blind legs, so all six comparisons are adjudicated.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
1 closures | 0.47 per 100k jobs | 258 of 392 | 300 of 392 | quiet trailing 365 days to today
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| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
9 notices | 0.23% | 60 of 386 | 104 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 |
$191.4mm | 12.3% | 117 of 393 | 45 of 393 | quiet
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 |
1 loan records | 7.08% | 90 of 335 | 60 of 335 | quiet 2026-07-29
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| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seacoast National Bank FL | 2.2% | 230% total 325%
|
🔒 | 0.57% |
| Cypress Bank & Trust FL | 48.8% | 252% total 418%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Sunrise Bank FL | 43.0% | 387% total 582%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress Bank & Trust | $120M | 252% total 418%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
Over the trailing 365 days, the on-the-ground record for Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL shows 2 store closures and 4 WARN notices affecting 599 jobs, a figure that should be read as a floor since notices stating no headcount contribute nothing to it. CRE-likely bankruptcy filings come to 53, but that reading is a state proxy rather than a metro-native count and is not comparable across the 2026-09-16 coverage change, so it should not be taken as local distress on the ground.