Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario carries $3.7 billion of CMBS across 195 loans, and on the filed record it reads as one of the calmer books in the country. The servicer-declared distress rate sits at 1.2% as of July 2026, flat, with a median DSCR of 2.07 — comfortable debt-service coverage across the metro. Office, industrial, self-storage and hospitality all show no distress in the filed data, each sitting well under its national benchmark.
The exception is multifamily, where the distress rate runs 12.2% — above the 7.9% national mark and 1.5 times the national rate. That is the one sector where the Inland Empire sits meaningfully hotter than the country, and it stands against a backdrop that is otherwise benign. The heaviest refinancing load lands in 2029, when $785 million comes due; near-term maturities are lighter, with $1.2 billion scheduled over the next 24 months.
The on-the-ground record is busier than the loan tape. The metro logged 94 distress events over the past year — 31 store closures and 63 layoff notices — touching 7,676 jobs. Unemployment stands at 5.9% as of August 2026, down 0.3 points year over year, and office-using employment of 191,627 is off 2.4% on the year. For now the stress shows up in the labor data and the multifamily rate rather than in the broad filed book.
In Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA, distress is elevated across all four independent feeds, with 4 of 4 signals elevated and all 6 pairs of cross-checks in agreement—0 pairs both quiet and 0 disagreeing, with 0 pairs unadjudicated because a side is blind. Store closures sit at 36 closures on 1,411,086 metro jobs, ranking 12th of 392 by count and 114th by rate at 2.55 per 100,000 jobs; WARN layoff notices hit 94 on 2,075,553 employed, ranking 8th of 386 by count and 48th by rate at 0.39%; bank CRE over the noncurrent line is $2,417.2 million of $12,174.5 million lent, ranking 24th of 393 by count and 17th by rate at 19.85%; securitized loans in special servicing number 8 rows on $3,713.0 million, ranking 22nd of 335 by count and 98th by rate at 1.19%. The bank leg's rate carries a caveat that only 12.1% of its dollars sit at banks lending in one metro, with the rest split by branch deposits the call report cannot confirm. No blind legs are present in this metro.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
36 closures | 2.55 per 100k jobs | 12 of 392 | 114 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 |
94 notices | 0.39% | 8 of 386 | 48 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 |
$2.42bn | 19.85% | 24 of 393 | 17 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 |
8 loan records | 1.19% | 22 of 335 | 98 of 335 | elevated 2026-07-29
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In Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA, several distress signals are elevated: bank distressed CRE exposure is at 12.1% of bank CRE, with 7.9% of bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile; CMBS special servicing covers $44.0mm in UPB, representing 1.2% of metro UPB; and real-economy pressures include 36 store closures and 94 WARN notices over the past year. The distressed lender CRE total is $2.42bn. However, the reading on distressed bank assets is unavailable, as the stated figure is 0 — no distressed banks are identified, so the dollar amount of distressed bank assets cannot be inferred from the given data.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens Business Bank, National Association CA | 17.6% | 281% total 406%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Chino Commercial Bank, N.a. CA | 100.0% | 213% total 363%
|
🔒 | 0.55% |
| First Bank MO | 4.6% | 184% total 273%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Banner Bank WA | 3.8% | 253% total 379%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| Everbank, National Association FL | 0.3% | 169% total 175%
|
🔒 | 1.03% |
| Banc Of California CA | 4.7% | 291% total 334%
|
🔒 | 4.24% |
| American Continental Bank CA | 14.2% | 196% total 264%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Commercial Bank (Usa) CA | 2.5% | 163% total 191%
|
🔒 | 1.96% |
| First Pacific Bank CA | 3.4% | 243% total 395%
|
🔒 | 0.31% |
| Balboa Thrift And Loan Association CA | 2.3% | 235% total 238%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Hcn Bank CA | 100.0% | 611% total 655%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Provident Savings Bank, F.s.b. CA | 100.0% | 354% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.10% |
| Golden State Bank CA | 19.6% | 420% total 612%
|
🔒 | 1.02% |
| C3bank, National Association CA | 6.5% | 361% total 403%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| California Bank Of Commerce, National Association CA | 4.6% | 313% total 437%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| Mechanics Bank CA | 3.9% | 340% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.30% |
| Genesis Bank CA | 2.8% | 442% total 532%
|
🔒 | 0.05% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chino Commercial Bank, N.a. | $213M | 213% total 363%
|
0.55% | 🔒 |
| Provident Savings Bank, F.s.b. | $465M | 354% total 362%
|
0.10% | 🔒 |
| Citizens Business Bank, National Association | $9.1B | 281% total 406%
|
0.06% | 🔒 |
| Hcn Bank | $767M | 611% total 655%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
No — on these figures the banks lending in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA do not appear to have the capacity to refinance its maturing CRE. The CMBS wall maturing within 24 months is $1.17bn across 67 maturing_loans, against room after deducting construction draws already committed of $96.8mm (room before those draws is $246.7mm), giving a wall-to-room ratio of 12.12 — or 4.76 before committed draws — for a metro ranked 12 of 275 counting from the most strained, in the tight band. Two caveats temper that read: the wall is the CMBS balance maturing within 24 months, the maturing debt this platform can see, not the metro's whole maturity load, and room is a proxy built from deposit footprint rather than a measurement of lending footprint; here banks_qualifying of 17 against banks_excluded_here of 9 warrants a check, though the strain is not explained by exclusion.
Over the trailing 365 days, the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro recorded 31 store closures and 63 WARN notices, with 7,676 jobs affected (a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute no jobs). The CRE-likely bankruptcy reading for this metro is 61, but that is a state proxy rather than a metro-native count, so it should not be read as activity located in the metro itself; no metro-native bankruptcy figure is available.