San Antonio-New Braunfels runs a modest CMBS book — $1.2 billion across 68 loans — and the pressure inside it is concentrated in one sector. Retail is both the metro's largest exposure at $328 million and its most distressed, with a 4.4% distress rate that sits well above the 2.7% national mark for the sector. That is the tension worth watching here: the biggest book is also the one servicers have flagged hardest. Against it, multifamily and self-storage each carry no distressed balance at all, the former a notable contrast to a 7.6% national rate.
The maturity wall is loaded toward the back end. The heaviest single year is 2029, with $464 million coming due — 38% of the entire book — and none of it currently distressed. Only $0.2 billion matures inside the next 24 months, so the refinancing test is a later-decade question rather than an immediate one. Across the book, the median DSCR stands at 1.68.
The filed record is moving the right way. The metro's overall distress rate reads 5.8% as of July 2026, and the direction has been falling. On the ground, the past year brought 19 distress events — 11 store closures and 8 layoff notices — touching 1,614 jobs, with unemployment at 4.7% in July 2026, up half a point year over year. Among the 10 banks with local exposure, none are distressed, though three sit on early-warning footing.
For San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX, three of the four distress signals are elevated, and none of the four are quiet. Store closures are running hot, but only because the metro is large: 8 closures clear the count threshold while ranking 277th of 392 by closures per 100,000 jobs. WARN notices are also elevated, at 8 notices (0.13% of employment). Bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line is elevated at $1,102.9mm, or 7.66% of the book allocated to this metro. The securitized tape is quiet, with 2 special-servicing rows at 5.73% of balance. Three pairs disagree: closures hot against a quiet tape reads as retail failing on buildings the tape doesn’t hold; WARN hot against the quiet tape reads as employers cutting while the securitized book hasn’t moved; and bank hot against the tape quiet reads as lenders stressed on a book the tape can’t see. The three agreeing pairs all sit hot, so this is a metro where size, not rate, carries the closures signal.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
8 closures | 0.86 per 100k jobs | 49 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 |
8 notices | 0.13% | 67 of 386 | 150 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 |
$1.10bn | 7.66% | 41 of 393 | 101 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 |
2 loan records | 5.73% | 66 of 335 | 65 of 335 | quiet 2026-07-29
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In San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX, the elevated distress signals are bank distressed CRE at $1.10bn, closures, and WARN notices. The special servicing reading is 5.7% of metro UPB ($70.0mm), while the bank CRE at-risk 90th percentile is 4.6%, and bank CRE allocations are 8.5% ($14.41bn). The bank distressed-assets figure is unavailable, as is the convergence reading.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frost Bank TX | 31.1% | 123% total 208%
|
🔒 | 0.74% |
| Broadway National Bank TX | 78.2% | 176% total 244%
|
🔒 | 0.03% |
| International Bank Of Commerce TX | 15.4% | 215% total 236%
|
🔒 | 0.90% |
| Texas Capital Bank TX | 2.8% | 105% total 130%
|
🔒 | 0.77% |
| Jefferson Bank TX | 98.7% | 251% total 352%
|
🔒 | 1.04% |
| Prosperity Bank TX | 1.7% | 171% total 228%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| First Commercial Bank, National Association TX | 95.3% | 163% total 273%
|
🔒 | 0.67% |
| Txn Bank TX | 79.6% | 180% total 220%
|
🔒 | 1.55% |
| Castroville State Bank TX | 100.0% | 133% total 170%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Southtrust Bank, N.a. TX | 31.9% | 145% total 239%
|
🔒 | 0.16% |
| American Momentum Bank TX | 3.9% | 173% total 214%
|
🔒 | 4.40% |
| Texas Community Bank TX | 7.9% | 194% total 272%
|
🔒 | 0.17% |
| Third Coast Bank TX | 4.4% | 236% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.43% |
| First United Bank And Trust Company OK | 6.1% | 280% total 344%
|
🔒 | 1.37% |
| Rio Bank TX | 22.7% | 242% total 329%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Plainscapital Bank TX | 3.1% | 255% total 369%
|
🔒 | 0.54% |
| Security State Bank & Trust TX | 19.2% | 266% total 346%
|
🔒 | 3.45% |
| Susser Bank TX | 6.6% | 243% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.44% |
| Hancock Whitney Bank MS | 0.2% | 146% total 229%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| Lone Star National Bank TX | 2.5% | 207% total 276%
|
🔒 | 1.31% |
| Security State Bank TX | 36.1% | 278% total 317%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First National Bank Texas TX | 1.8% | 206% total 240%
|
🔒 | 0.07% |
| Falcon International Bank TX | 9.5% | 285% total 352%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Centennial Bank AR | 0.2% | 257% total 315%
|
🔒 | 0.46% |
| The Moody National Bank TX | 3.6% | 278% total 364%
|
🔒 | 1.18% |
| Ozona Bank TX | 1.4% | 174% total 237%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The Bank And Trust, S.s.b. TX | 0.6% | 112% total 166%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Texas Regional Bank TX | 3.2% | 295% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.02% |
| Schertz Bank & Trust TX | 93.9% | 345% total 467%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The First National Bank Of Sonora TX | 25.3% | 327% total 439%
|
🔒 | 2.28% |
| Vantage Bank Texas TX | 16.6% | 314% total 424%
|
🔒 | 1.04% |
| Texas Champion Bank TX | 15.0% | 373% total 501%
|
🔒 | 0.48% |
| Sage Capital Bank, TX | 10.7% | 329% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Pinnacle Bank TX | 2.7% | 352% total 434%
|
🔒 | 0.10% |
| Wallis Bank TX | 2.6% | 419% total 676%
|
🔒 | 1.67% |
| Blue Sky Bank OK | 1.7% | 349% total 490%
|
🔒 | 3.42% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Txn Bank | $146M | 180% total 220%
|
1.55% | 🔒 |
| Frost Bank | $10.7B | 123% total 208%
|
0.74% | 🔒 |
| Schertz Bank & Trust | $537M | 345% total 467%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Vantage Bank Texas | $2.2B | 314% total 424%
|
1.04% | 🔒 |
| Jefferson Bank | $980M | 251% total 352%
|
1.04% | 🔒 |
| First Commercial Bank, National Association | $166M | 163% total 273%
|
0.67% | 🔒 |
| Broadway National Bank | $1.6B | 176% total 244%
|
0.03% | 🔒 |
| Castroville State Bank | $52M | 133% total 170%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
In San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX, the banks lending here appear to have ample capacity to refinance its maturing CRE, and the reading is comfortably in slack territory. The metro ranks 206 of 270 counting from the most strained (a lower rank means more strain), with a wall-to-room ratio of 0.07—below the median of 0.20—indicating less strain than the typical ranked metro. With $211.7mm in CMBS maturing across 13 loans, local banks have $4.61bn in room before committed draws and $3.10bn after them, leaving a wall-to-room of 0.05 once those draws are deducted. While 7.3% of the balance is distressed and $1.22bn sits in CMBS UPB overall, the $1.97bn in committed draws does not significantly erode this cushion, and no exclusion artifact explains the reading — 36 banks qualify here versus 9 excluded, so the slack is genuine.
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAA | -7.2% | -3.3% | 94.4% | -2.5% | 2026-07-29 |
Over the trailing 365-day window, San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX has recorded 8 WARN notices affecting 1,614 jobs, alongside 9 store closures and 4 CRE-related bankruptcy filings. These figures reflect actual, on-the-ground activity within the metro, though the bankruptcy count uses a state-level proxy rather than a metro-native tally. Layoff and closure numbers are ZIP-matched to the CBSA, with approved rows only; the jobs figure is a floor since notices without a stated headcount contribute zero.