Salt Lake City-Murray carries $683M of CMBS across 40 loans, and the distress rate on the filed record has been rising — reaching 4.0% as of July 2026. That is a modest headline number by national standards, but the trend, not the level, is the story here. Underlying credit still reads sound at the median, with a median DSCR of 2.18.
The weight of the book sits in office, the metro's largest sector at $326M and running 8.8% distressed — elevated in absolute terms, though still below the 11.3% national office rate. Retail, by contrast, shows no distress in the filed record against a 2.7% national mark. The maturity calendar concentrates the risk: $248M, or 36% of the book, comes due in 2027, the single heaviest year on the schedule.
Away from the securitized data, the on-the-ground record shows six distress events over the past year — three store closures and three layoff notices totaling 368 jobs. It is a real signal in a metro whose broader labor market remains firm, with unemployment at 3.5% as of July 2026. Desks watching this book should keep the 2027 wall and the office concentration in front of them.
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT is showing a mixed but notable distress picture across the four tracked feeds. The bank CRE leg is clearly elevated, with 18558.4 $mm in noncurrent loans — a 44.98% share of the metro's lent CRE — ranking it 3rd of 393 by count and 4th by rate. Store closures are also elevated (6 closures, ranking 70th of 392 by count), but this is purely a size effect: at 0.86 closures per 100,000 jobs, the metro ranks just 277th by rate, so the reading reflects scale rather than per-unit stress. The other two legs are quiet: WARN layoff notices show only 4 notices (0.05% of employment, rank 113th by count), and securitized CMBS loans in special servicing show 0 rows, a 0.0% rate. Of the six leg pairs, 4 disagree, 1 has both elevated, and 1 has both quiet — with the disagreement typically reflecting structural differences (e.g., store closures hot while WARN is quiet indicates small-operator failures below the filing floor, while bank stress without an employment event suggests lender exposure on a book not tied to local job losses). No blind legs affect this metro's readings.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
6 closures | 0.86 per 100k jobs | 70 of 392 | 277 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 |
4 notices | 0.05% | 113 of 386 | 203 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 |
$18.56bn | 44.98% | 3 of 393 | 4 of 393 | elevated 2026-03-31
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| 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
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In Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, elevated distress signals include bank-distressed CRE exposure—with "distressed_lender_cre" at $18.56bn and "distressed_bank_assets_bn" at 7.1—and ground-level closures (6 store closures and 4 WARN notices in the past year). A key credit metric, the 90th-percentile bank CRE at-risk share, is 2.8%, while the bank allocation share is 65.9%. However, the CMBS special servicing reading is unavailable as a dollar figure and share—both stated as $0.0mm and 0.0%, respectively—so that channel shows no measurable distress, and no other figures are provided beyond these.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quill Bank UT | 7.8% | 136% total 277%
|
🔒 | 4.71% |
| Bank Of Utah UT | 13.7% | 270% total 330%
|
🔒 | 0.27% |
| D. L. Evans Bank ID | 1.6% | 130% total 245%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Brighton Bank UT | 100.0% | 272% total 462%
|
🔒 | 0.30% |
| First Utah Bank UT | 98.4% | 290% total 539%
|
🔒 | 7.07% |
| Northwest Bank ID | 2.6% | 177% total 224%
|
🔒 | 5.26% |
| Cache Valley Bank UT | 2.9% | 292% total 449%
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🔒 | 0.01% |
| Sunwest Bank UT | 5.8% | 327% total 467%
|
🔒 | 0.49% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Utah Bank | $463M | 290% total 539%
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7.07% | 🔒 |
| Celtic Bank | $2.0B | 11% total 214%
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4.51% | 🔒 |
| Finwise Bank | $259M | 44% total 162%
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9.61% | 🔒 |
| Morgan Stanley Bank, National Association | $9.5B | 22% total 22%
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5.23% | 🔒 |
| Sunwest Bank | $2.2B | 327% total 467%
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0.49% | 🔒 |
| Zions Bancorporation, N.a. | $23.7B | 152% total 239%
|
0.33% | 🔒 |
| Ubs Bank Usa, National Association | $1.6B | 14% total 16%
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0.32% | 🔒 |
| Brighton Bank | $171M | 272% total 462%
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0.30% | 🔒 |
In Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, the capacity for banks to refinance its maturing CMBS is tight, with a wall-to-room ratio of 9.77 against $320.6mm in maturing loans, though this is partly an artifact of bank exclusion. Only 8 banks qualify here versus 10 excluded, meaning the strain is driven by visibility limits rather than scarce credit—after accounting for committed draws, room stands at $32.8mm, far below the maturing balance.
More banks are excluded here (10) than qualify (8). This metro's ratio is an artifact of who this read can see, not evidence that credit is scarce. The wall_to_room of 9.77 is above the median of 0.20, but the presence of 4.2% distressed share among 15 maturing loans suggests some pressure, even if the exclusion of national and card banks skews the reading. A high ratio is as often an exclusion artifact as a credit event, so the capacity to refinance appears constrained only among the regional/community banks this data captures, not necessarily the broader lending market.
In the past 365 days, Salt Lake City-Murray, UT has seen 3 WARN notices affecting 368 jobs, with 6 store closures reported. The CRE bankruptcies reading is 0, but this is a state proxy — not a metro-native count — so a true metro-level bankruptcies figure is unavailable from these figures.