Pittsburgh's CMBS market runs to $1.7 billion across 78 loans, and the strain sits almost entirely in one sector. Office is the metro's largest exposure at $703 million and its most troubled, with a distress rate of 32.3% — nearly three times the 11.3% national office reading. Retail, self-storage and hospitality are quiet by comparison, leaving office to define the credit picture here. Across the full book, the filed distress rate stands at 13.9% as of July 2026, and the direction of that record has been rising.
The maturity calendar keeps the pressure ahead rather than behind. The heaviest load lands in 2031 at $377 million, with another sizable slug due in 2029, and while those later years carry no distress in the filed record today, the 2028 vintage already shows a 15.4% rate. Median DSCR across the book sits at 1.45.
On the ground, the past year brought 37 distress events — 33 store closures and four layoff notices — accounting for 723 jobs. That plays out against a labor market that is still firm: unemployment of 3.7% as of July 2026, down 0.9 points year over year, with office-using employment of 221,908 up 0.8%. The distress in Pittsburgh is concentrated in the office loan book, not the broader economy around it.
Here is your short paragraph of commercial-real-estate commentary for Pittsburgh, PA:
Pittsburgh, PA shows a genuinely split distress picture. The retail and CMBS legs are both elevated: 34 store closures at a rate of 3.43 per 100k jobs ranks 13th of 392 metros by count, while 7 securitized loans in special servicing at 14.42% of balance ranks 24th of 335. The WARN leg is quiet at 3 notices (0.04% rate), and bank CRE sits just under the noncurrent line at 320.7 $mm (0.96% rate). Four of the six leg-pairs disagree. The closures-plus-CMBS agreement reads as property-level distress, while WARN’s silence and the bank tape’s quietness suggest the trouble is concentrated in assets rather than employers or local lenders.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
34 closures | 3.43 per 100k jobs | 13 of 392 | 70 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 |
3 notices | 0.04% | 136 of 386 | 210 of 386 | quiet 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 |
$320.7mm | 0.96% | 88 of 393 | 294 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 |
7 loan records | 14.42% | 24 of 335 | 32 of 335 | elevated 2026-07-29
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Pittsburgh, PA is showing elevated distress on two fronts: CMBS special servicing and real-economy closures. Specifically, the CMBS special servicing reading is elevated, with the special-servicing UPB at $232.0mm and a special-servicing share of metro UPB at 14.4%; meanwhile, store closures over the past year are elevated, with 34 closures recorded. On the credit side, the distressed-bank assets reading stands at 0.8 (billion dollars, per the stated figure), and the distressed-lender CRE exposure is $320.7mm, alongside a bank CRE at-risk reading of 8.8% at the 90th percentile. Notably, the overall bank CRE allocation share is 15.9%, and bank CRE volume is $33.57bn. However, the WARN notices figure (1-year count) and the count of CMBS loans in special servicing are not available from the given vetted figures, so those specific readings cannot be read. The convergence signal is 2, confirming that both leading and realized signals are firing together.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dollar Bank, Federal Savings Bank PA | 71.4% | 168% total 187%
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🔒 | 0.42% |
| First Commonwealth Bank PA | 39.5% | 205% total 260%
|
🔒 | 0.71% |
| Northwest Bank PA | 7.4% | 109% total 145%
|
🔒 | 1.53% |
| Washington Financial Bank PA | 100.0% | 185% total 204%
|
🔒 | 0.92% |
| Elderton State Bank PA | 100.0% | 138% total 283%
|
🔒 | 0.70% |
| Somerset Trust Company PA | 32.0% | 206% total 290%
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🔒 | 1.51% |
| Apollo Trust Company PA | 100.0% | 103% total 131%
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🔒 | 0.00% |
| Union Savings Bank OH | 6.7% | 128% total 128%
|
🔒 | 0.21% |
| Ssb Bank PA | 100.0% | 185% total 247%
|
🔒 | 1.36% |
| The Farmers National Bank Of Canfield OH | 3.9% | 198% total 285%
|
🔒 | 1.02% |
| 1st Summit Bank PA | 7.1% | 189% total 250%
|
🔒 | 0.65% |
| Infirst Bank PA | 9.3% | 140% total 176%
|
🔒 | 0.10% |
| Community Bank PA | 40.2% | 288% total 358%
|
🔒 | 0.08% |
| Marion Center Bank PA | 11.0% | 148% total 278%
|
🔒 | 1.48% |
| Univest Bank And Trust Co. PA | 1.2% | 264% total 373%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| Peoples Security Bank And Trust Company PA | 0.9% | 290% total 389%
|
🔒 | 0.33% |
| Brentwood Bank PA | 100.0% | 398% total 441%
|
🔒 | 1.22% |
| Nextier Bank, National Association PA | 92.5% | 315% total 362%
|
🔒 | 2.69% |
| S&t Bank PA | 40.0% | 309% total 339%
|
🔒 | 0.24% |
| Ameriserv Financial Bank PA | 12.1% | 349% total 406%
|
🔒 | 0.38% |
| Mid Penn Bank PA | 6.2% | 328% total 438%
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🔒 | 0.25% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Bank | $290M | 394% total 671%
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6.18% | 🔒 |
| Ssb Bank | $85M | 185% total 247%
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1.36% | 🔒 |
| Elderton State Bank | $157M | 138% total 283%
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0.70% | 🔒 |
| Nextier Bank, National Association | $1.1B | 315% total 362%
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2.69% | 🔒 |
| Tristate Capital Bank | $3.4B | 176% total 185%
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1.50% | 🔒 |
| Brentwood Bank | $452M | 398% total 441%
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1.22% | 🔒 |
| Washington Financial Bank | $444M | 185% total 204%
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0.92% | 🔒 |
| Cfsbank | $71M | 48% total 83%
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0.55% | 🔒 |
Pittsburgh, PA's maturity wall sits at $375.7mm across 20 maturing loans, versus regional/community bank room of $1.82bn after committed draws, putting the wall-to-room ratio at 0.21 — above the median of 0.20 but in the "slack" band, indicating banks do have the capacity to absorb it. The metro ranks 135 of 270, counting from the most strained, and the 14.1% distressed share of CMBS is modest; note that 21 banks qualify and 6 are excluded here, though the exclusion artifact does not explain the reading. Since room after committed draws is $1.82bn — over four times the wall — refinancing capacity appears sufficient, and even the before-committed room of $2.79bn underscores ample headroom.
Over the past 365 days, Pittsburgh, PA has recorded 34 store closures and 4 WARN notices, affecting 723 jobs, with 0 CRE bankruptcy filings over the window.