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Commercial Real Estate Credit —
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · DC, MD, VA, WV
The read
$9.2B of CMBS across 238 loans. Office is both the largest book ($4.5B) and the most distressed (20.4% vs 11.1% national). Distress is rising in the filed record — 10.9% as of 2026-07. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029 ($2.4B, 26% of the book). 201 on-the-ground distress events in the past year (11,073 jobs).
Overview
CMBS
Submarkets
Local Banks
Jobs & Demand
On The Ground
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The CMBS properties our stress model flags here, plus recent store closures and layoffs. Stressed is a wider net than distressed — the distressed figure above counts only loans already in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, while these dots also include performing loans facing maturity or coverage pressure. Property dots sit at the center of their ZIP code, not the building — they show where stress concentrates, not which asset. Closures and layoffs are pinned to address where we have it. Open any dot to the building and the loan behind it →
Office Sets the Pace in Washington, and the Record Is Turning

The nation's capital carries $9.2 billion of CMBS across 238 loans, and office does the heavy lifting on both sides of the ledger. At $4.5 billion it is the largest book in the metro, and at a 20.4% distress rate it is also the most troubled — nearly double the 11.1% national office mark. That single sector sets the tone for Washington, and the trend in the filed record is pointing the same way: distress stood at 10.9% as of July 2026 and has been rising.

The maturity wall tells a layered story. The heaviest load lands in 2029, with $2.4 billion — 26% of the book — coming due at a benign 2.2% distress rate. The nearer vintages are where the strain already sits: $1.3 billion maturing in 2027 carries a 42.5% distress rate, and the $1.1 billion due in 2028 runs at 11.9%. Against that, the metro's median DSCR of 1.81 gives the broader book some cushion.

The pressure is visible on the ground as well. The past year brought 201 distress events across the metro, and the layoff notices alone account for 11,073 jobs. For now the labor backdrop is firmer than the credit picture — unemployment was 3.8% as of August 2026, down 0.4 points year over year — but the office book remains the number to watch here.

Written 2026-10-27
CMBS Distressed UPB
$1.0B / 11.0% in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$2.6B
Banks HQ’d Here (stressed)
3 / 24
Bank Early-Warning
7 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
95
Layoff Notices (1y)
106 / 11,073 jobs 0.45% of metro employment
CMBS Loans / UPB
238 / $9.2B
Unemployment · Aug 2026
3.8% -0.4pp yr

How much CRE distress is there in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV right now?

Distress in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is broad and mutually reinforcing: all four independent feeds read elevated, and all 6 of 6 pairs agree-hot with 0 pairs both quiet and 0 pairs disagreeing. Store closures run at 81 closures (3.27 per 100k jobs, 4th of 392 by count, 76th by rate), WARN notices at 107 notices (0.29% of employment, 6th of 386 by count, 76th by rate), bank CRE over the noncurrent line at $10,894.7mm (17.98% of lent CRE, 5th of 393 by count, 20th by rate), and securitized loans in special servicing at 20 rows (11.85% of securitized balance, 8th of 335 by count, 42nd by rate). The bank leg's 17.98% rate is computed off an allocation, since only 21.3% of its dollars sit at banks that lend in one metro and need no allocation; the rest is split by branch deposits, which the call report cannot confirm.

The figures behind this answer
SignalLevel Rate Rank by count Rank by rate Reading
store closures
store closures per 100,000 jobs
81 closures 3.27 per 100k jobs 4 of 392 76 of 392 elevated
trailing 365 days to today
layoff notices (WARN)
workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment
107 notices 0.29% 6 of 386 76 of 386 elevated
trailing 365 days to today
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
$10.89bn 17.98% 5 of 393 20 of 393 elevated
allocated
2026-03-31
securitized loans in special servicing
share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing
20 loan records 11.85% 8 of 335 42 of 335 elevated
2026-07-29
6 pairs compared 6 both elevated 0 both quiet 0 disagreeing 0 unreadable — a side is blind 4 of four legs elevated
one metro, four independent feeds, each on its own denominator
114 of 441 metros have at least one blind leg and 48 are blind on all four. Those 48 are the same metros the board's map cannot place and the metro resolver cannot name: one ZIP-to-CBSA crosswalk boundary, showing up three ways.
Elevation is computed on the COUNT, over a flat threshold, which is a size filter. New York is 2nd of 392 by store closures and 264th of the same 392 by closures per job — both true, and which one you lead with decides what the reader believes.
Where two legs disagree, that is usually a fact about WHICH mechanism is running, not an error in either feed and not a worse metro.
A leg with no denominator, or whose numerator cannot be measured, reads LOW and means nothing. Each leg publishes a measurement state (allocated, floor, measured, no denominator, no rate, not measurable) for that reason.
Store closures: divided by 2,476,594 jobs — all metro jobs, QCEW annual average — a SIZE normaliser, not a matched population: the feed spans retail, food service and pharmacy and no single QCEW sector covers it. The MATCHED read sits beside it as this leg's second reading (trailing 365 days to today).
Layoff notices (WARN): divided by 3,318,328 employed — employed persons, BLS LAUS, not seasonally adjusted (trailing 365 days to today).
Bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line: divided by $60,582.1 mm — bank CRE allocated to this metro by branch deposits (2026-03-31).
Securitized loans in special servicing: divided by $9,317.0 mm — current balance on the non-pari-passu rows of this tape — the trust's slice, not the whole loan, on both sides of the ratio (2026-07-29).
Written from the figures above · CBSA 47900 · stress_metro · last changed 28 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →

Which distress signals are elevated in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, and which cannot be read?

In Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, elevated distress signals include bank distressed CRE exposure at $10.89bn (with bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile reaching 15.4% of a $60.58bn portfolio), CMBS special servicing UPB of $1.10bn (11.8% of metro UPB), plus ground-level signals from closures and WARN notices. The reading on signal convergence is 4, but a reading on the exact share of bank assets allocated to CRE is unavailable.

The figures behind this answer
CMBS in special servicing
$1.10bn
… as a share of this metro's CMBS balance
11.8%
Bank CRE lent into this metro
$60.58bn
… at risk at the 90th percentile
15.4%
CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
$10.89bn
Assets at those lenders
$12.90bn
… share needing no branch-deposit allocation
21.3%
Signals reading elevated
bank CRE over the noncurrent line, CMBS in special servicing, store closures, WARN layoff notices
Legs agreeing
4
Phase
peak
CMBS loans in special servicing
20
Distressed banks
3
Store closures (past year)
81
WARN notices (past year)
107
leading (real-economy) and realized (credit) signals are firing together
$1B+ of CRE in special servicing or held at distressed local banks
credit distress AND ground-level distress, with real dollars behind the credit side
Written from the figures above · CBSA 47900 · geo_metro_signals · last changed 28 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →
Jobs & Demand — the labor market under the collateralWatch it change →
Every other zone on this page reads the credit — what the loan is doing. This one reads the demand underneath it. Office jobs pay office rent; office rent services the office loan. When the jobs go, the DSCR follows — but not for another year or two. That lag is the whole point of looking here.
Unemployment · Aug 2026
3.8% -0.4pp yr
Last 24 months
2.9%4.5%
Monthly metro unemployment (BLS LAUS) — the freshest labor signal there is, about six weeks behind. Read the direction, not the level: a 4% metro that is rising and a 6% metro that is falling are not telling you the same thing.
Sector Heat — CMBS distress rate by property type (metro vs national)See the loans behind the bar →
This metro's CMBS runs 11.0% distressed where its own property mix predicts 6.9% — $378M more than this book would carry at the rate each property type runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted and excluding this metro. The gap is measured; the cause is not. 1 of 4 property types here run a higher distress rate than the national average for that type (the tick on each bar).
Office
20.4% metro · 11.1% US · $4.5B
Industrial
0.0% metro · 2.7% US · $433M
Mixed-Use
0.0% metro · 5.4% US · $733M
Self-Storage
0.0% metro · 0.1% US · $385M
Hospitality
rate not reported · $546M
Retail
rate not reported · $2.4B
Elimination — does the gap survive a control?
Each row re-prices this metro's book on a finer cell — its own property types, then those types split by loan size, then by vintage — always at the rate that cell runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted. A gap that shrinks toward zero is explained by the control; one that stays has ruled it out. What is measured is what survives, not a cause.
property mix alone
+4.1pp
… and loan size held fixed
+4.0pp
the gap is still there with loan size held fixed too
… and vintage held fixed
+4.4pp
the gap is still there with vintage held fixed too
The largest single contributor is Office: 75 loans, $4.5B, running 20.4% where the same type runs 10.4% elsewhere — worth 4.9pp of this metro's own rate.
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, distress within eachSee what’s maturing →
$2.6B — 28% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already distressed.
2026
$407M · 10 loans · 0.0%
2027
$1.3B · 31 loans · 42.5%
2028
$1.1B · 31 loans · 11.9%
2029
$2.4B · 55 loans · 2.2%
2030
$854M · 29 loans · 0.0%
2031
$914M · 23 loans · distress not reported
2032
$876M · 21 loans · distress not reported
2033
$400M · 13 loans · 0.0%
2034
$204M · 7 loans · 0.0%
2035
$551M · 10 loans · 0.0%
2036
$136M · 5 loans · 0.0%
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Realized distress is RISING — 10.9% now (2026-07), +1.5pp over the year.
Same definition as the cards above — distressed means in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, dollar-weighted — on a different clock. The cards are today’s tape; this is the disclosed history panel, quarter by quarter, so you can read direction rather than level. Trusts file monthly, so a quarter is usually well covered within weeks of opening and the newest one shown is normally the current one; it is withheld only when its filed book falls below 60% of recent quarters.
Share of the metro’s CMBS in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, by quarter — a firmer, backward-looking read. A loan under 1.0x DSCR that is still paying is not counted here.
Submarket Heat — where in the metro the distress sitsOpen the submarket →
The top three submarkets hold $4.1B of the metro's $9.2B; each bar's colored share is its distress rate.
Tysons / Reston / Fairfax
$1.7B · distress not reported
Bethesda / Rockville / Silver Spring
$1.3B · 19.6%
Downtown DC / CBD
$1.2B · 30.6%
Prince George's County
$1.0B · distress not reported
Capitol Hill / NoMa
$918M · distress not reported
Ashburn / Leesburg
$558M · 0.0%
Arlington
$539M · 0.0%
Manassas / Woodbridge
$512M · 0.0%
Alexandria
$400M · distress not reported
Capitol Riverfront / Southwest
$380M · 0.0%
Georgetown / West End
$269M · distress not reported
East End
$225M · 0.0%
Frederick
$141M · 0.0%
Fredericksburg / Stafford
$100M · 0.0%
Waldorf / La Plata
$39M · 0.0%
Warrenton / Culpeper
$1M · 0.0%
Bank Door — what the local bank sector could absorbSee it on every loan’s exit read →
$2.6B of CMBS matures here within two years. The 35 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly $2.3B more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is 1.14× that room. The median metro sits at 0.13×.
Regional Bank Room
$2.3B
After Committed Draws
$1.0B / −55%
Maturing ÷ Room
1.14×
Banks In Footprint
35 / 10 at the line
The room above is already part-sold. Construction lending is a promise drawn down over two or three years, and the undrawn part is an obligation the bank cannot decline while the borrower performs — every one of those dollars lands in the same CRE book the 300% line governs. These banks have $2.4B of construction committed and not yet advanced, of which $1.2B comes out of the room above, leaving $1.0B, with 16 banks whose entire remaining room is spoken for. A bank with no room contributes zero here, never a negative one — capacity does not net across balance sheets — so $1.2B of what has been promised is not deducted at all, because there is nothing left to deduct it from. On today’s capital that is funding already contracted which would cross the line as it draws. SR 06-26 draws a second line at 100% of capital for construction and land: 2 of 35 are past it on drawn balances alone, and 10 more cross it once their own commitments fund.
Counted — 35 regional & local CRE lenders
BankDeposit shareCRE / Capital*Room contributedNoncurrent CRE
Atlantic Union Bank VA 35.5% 264%
total 363%
🔒 0.42%
Eaglebank MD 100.0% 258%
total 355%
🔒 2.20%
Industrial Bank DC 77.1% 131%
total 212%
🔒 8.38%
Primis Bank VA 33.2% 188%
total 317%
🔒 3.31%
The Freedom Bank Of Virginia VA 100.0% 175%
total 290%
🔒 1.85%
Bank Of Clarke VA 50.1% 195%
total 329%
🔒 1.45%
Amalgamated Bank NY 17.0% 235%
total 239%
🔒 4.15%
Virginia National Bank VA 43.0% 226%
total 289%
🔒 0.00%
Fulton Bank, National Association PA 1.5% 184%
total 283%
🔒 0.79%
Fvcbank VA 98.2% 284%
total 354%
🔒 0.96%
First United Bank & Trust MD 14.8% 201%
total 285%
🔒 0.19%
The National Capital Bank Of Washington DC 100.0% 262%
total 327%
🔒 2.45%
Acnb Bank PA 13.3% 232%
total 333%
🔒 0.21%
Woodsboro Bank MD 100.0% 232%
total 415%
🔒 0.16%
Jefferson Security Bank WV 61.6% 210%
total 257%
🔒 0.00%
Middletown Valley Bank MD 39.9% 249%
total 381%
🔒 0.00%
Potomac Bank WV 80.3% 276%
total 389%
🔒 0.00%
City National Bank Of West Virginia WV 3.0% 206%
total 241%
🔒 0.30%
The Harbor Bank Of Maryland MD 15.6% 226%
total 313%
🔒 2.37%
Blue Ridge Bank, National Association VA 3.7% 255%
total 315%
🔒 0.14%
Citizens And Farmers Bank VA 2.7% 267%
total 304%
🔒 0.00%
Promiseone Bank GA 18.4% 284%
total 364%
🔒 1.01%
First Bank VA 6.4% 283%
total 391%
🔒 0.00%
Somerset Trust Company PA 0.8% 206%
total 290%
🔒 1.51%
Farmers & Merchants Bank VA 0.0% 155%
total 222%
🔒 0.21%
Presidential Bank, Fsb MD 100.0% 321%
total 336%
🔒 1.83%
Mainstreet Bank VA 100.0% 379%
total 538%
🔒 3.26%
John Marshall Bank VA 100.0% 337%
total 439%
🔒 0.00%
Trustar Bank VA 100.0% 422%
total 499%
🔒 0.63%
City First Bank, National Association DC 79.4% 378%
total 438%
🔒 1.20%
Old Dominion National Bank VA 77.0% 312%
total 365%
🔒 1.52%
Shore United Bank, National Association MD 18.8% 326%
total 436%
🔒 1.78%
Hingham Institution For Savings MA 10.2% 525%
total 552%
🔒 1.03%
Mvb Bank, Inc WV 6.6% 312%
total 373%
🔒 0.25%
Carter Bank & Trust VA 6.3% 395%
total 423%
🔒 0.84%
Not counted — 35 banks with deposits here
These hold deposits in this metro but are left out of the capacity above, because for them deposit location stops indicating where they lend — or they do not lend CRE at all. Real money that could refinance here is deliberately not counted.
no CRE book — CRE under 100% of capital — not a CRE lender
Capital One, National Association VA · Truist Bank NC · Bank Of America, National Association NC · Wells Fargo Bank, National Association SD · Pnc Bank, National Association DE · Citibank, National Association SD · Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · Td Bank, National Association DE · Hsbc Bank Usa, National Association VA · Chain Bridge Bank, National Association VA · Oak View National Bank VA · Citizens Bank, National Association RI · First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company NC · The Northern Trust Company IL · The Bank Of New York Mellon NY · Bny Mellon, National Association PA · Wilmington Trust, National Association DE · Cibc National Trust Company GA
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
Manufacturers And Traders Trust Company NY · Pinnacle Bank TN · City National Bank CA · Wesbanco Bank, Inc. WV · First National Bank Of Pennsylvania PA · Woori America Bank NY · Metro City Bank GA · Peoples Bank OH · Armed Forces Bank, National Association KS · United Bank VA · Cathay Bank CA · Woodforest National Bank TX · Capital Bank, National Association MD · Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company VA · Hanmi Bank CA
booked here — books nearly all deposits to one branch — a charter address, not a footprint
Forbright Bank MD · Founders Bank DC
* Two ratios, two perimeters. The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital — construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its 300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on. Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
How to read this. It is not whether any particular loan can refinance — a borrower also reaches national banks, life companies, agencies and debt funds. It is how much of this metro’s maturing volume the local bank sector could absorb if it were the only door. Banks are placed by deposit share (FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2026) — a proxy for where they lend, not a measurement; call reports carry no collateral geography. Room = 3× total risk-based capital less CRE held (SR 06-26, the capital base the rule names — not book equity), from Q2 2026 call reports, apportioned by that share. Committed construction comes from FFIEC Schedule RC-L as filed at 2026-06-30 — the undrawn half of loans already written, which the balance sheet above does not show. Banks in more than 5 states, single-branch bookers and banks that do not lend CRE are excluded — 315 banks holding $263.8B of national capacity not counted here.
Local Lenders — banks headquartered here, worst CRE noncurrent firstUnlock each bank’s early-warning flag →
BankTotal CRECRE / Capital*Noncurrent CREEarly Warning
Industrial Bank $266M 131%
total 212%
8.38% 🔒
Mainstreet Bank $1.6B 379%
total 538%
3.26% 🔒
Hsbc Bank Usa, National Association $1.6B 7%
total 8%
15.70% 🔒
Eaglebank $4.7B 258%
total 355%
2.20% 🔒
Capital Bank, National Association $1.5B 304%
total 419%
1.82% 🔒
Bank Of Clarke $811M 195%
total 329%
1.45% 🔒
Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company $5.5B 335%
total 424%
1.24% 🔒
City First Bank, National Association $853M 378%
total 438%
1.20% 🔒
* Two ratios, two perimeters. The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital — construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its 300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on. Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
Banks are matched to their HQ metro (a proxy for footprint). Noncurrent CRE = CRE-balance-weighted blend of multifamily / nonresidential / construction noncurrent (distress already arrived). Early Warning is a validated leading signal — the bank’s 30-89 early-delinquency rank among all CRE lenders this quarter, which has predicted ~2.3× forward CRE distress. Per-bank flags are on a plan.

Do the banks lending in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV have the capacity to refinance its maturing CRE?

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV ranks 30 of 275 counting from the most strained, with $2.60bn of CMBS maturing within 24 months against regional and community bank room of $1.02bn after committed draws, a wall-to-room ratio of 2.56. Before committed draws the picture is less extreme—$2.26bn of room against the same maturing balance, or 1.15—but the $2.44bn in committed draws consumes most of that headroom. On these figures the metro's qualifying banks, 35 of them, do not appear to hold the capacity to absorb the maturity wall on their own, and the strain reading comes with an important caveat: 17 banks are excluded here, and the exclusion artifact is flagged as not explaining this result. Room remains a proxy for what regional and community banks could still write before the SR 06-26 concentration line, and the wall covers only CMBS maturing within 24 months, so the ratio is an upper bound on how much of it local banks would have to absorb.

The figures behind this answer
CMBS maturing in the window
$2.60bn
… across this many loans
66
Local bank room, before committed draws
$2.26bn
Committed construction draws
$2.44bn
Local bank room, after those draws
$1.02bn
Wall-to-room ratio
2.56
Rank, most strained
30
… out of this many metros ranked
275
… before committed draws
1.15
Population ranked against
CMBS maturing within 24 months against regional/community bank room in this metro
Qualifying local banks
35
… excluded from the calculation
17
Distressed share of this metro's CMBS
11.0%
Total CMBS balance here
$9.25bn
Capacity band
tight
Compared against a median wall-to-room ratio of 0.24 across the ranked metros.
2.56 is ABOVE the median of 0.24, so this metro is MORE strained than the typical ranked metro
30 of 275, counting from the MOST strained — a LOWER rank number means MORE strain
Room is what regional and community banks could still write before the SR 06-26 concentration line, after deducting construction draws already committed. Deposit footprint is a proxy for lending footprint, not a measurement of it.
The most extreme ratios belong to the smallest metros.
The wall is the CMBS balance maturing within 24 months — the maturing debt this platform can see, not the metro's whole maturity load. Every ratio is an upper bound on how much of it local banks would have to absorb.
A high ratio is as often an exclusion artifact as a credit event. Banks whose deposits do not indicate where they lend (nationals, card and charter banks) are excluded from the room, so a metro served mainly by those reads strained while its credit is simply invisible here.
Written from the figures above · CBSA 47900 · capacity_metro · last changed 25 Oct 2026 · Ask your own question →
Apartment-REIT Operating Read — same-store disclosures for this metro · as of 2026-07-29Set against the loan book →
Same-Store NOI
+0.7%
Same-Store Revenue
+1.1%
Occupancy
95.6%
Rent Growth
+1.0%
REITSS NOISS RevenueOccupancyRentAs Of
AVB — -0.2% 94.5% -1.5% 2026-02-05
EQR +0.2% +1.7% 96.3% +2.8% 2026-04-28
MAA +1.1% +1.7% 96.1% +1.8% 2026-07-29
Same-store operating results disclosed by public apartment REITs (AVB · EQR · ESS · MAA · CPT · UDR) for this market in their quarterly supplements. Directional market context — an operating trend, not a Verstavo score.
On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
201 local distress events in the past year (11,073 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-12-31
CLOSURE
Walgreens
Scheduled · Washington
2026-12-31
CLOSURE
Walgreens
Scheduled · Arlington
2027-01-31
CLOSURE
Chick-fil-A
Scheduled · College Park
2026-10-22
CLOSURE
Crystal City Wine Shop
Washington
2026-10-14
CLOSURE
Easy Company
Washington
2026-10-14
LAYOFF
Washington Post
118 jobs · Springfield
2026-10-07
LAYOFF
The Washington Post
118 jobs · Springfield
2026-10-06
CLOSURE
Dukem Ethiopian Restaurant
Washington
2026-10-06
CLOSURE
Dukem
Washington
2026-10-06
LAYOFF
Cloudforce Group, Inc.
33 jobs
2026-10-05
CLOSURE
Bertucci's
Springfield
2026-10-05
LAYOFF
True Food Kitchen
41 jobs
2026-10-02
CLOSURE
Ikea
Fairfax
2026-10-02
LAYOFF
ICF International LLC
82 jobs · Arlington
2026-10-01
LAYOFF
Leidos
84 jobs · Ashburn

What has actually happened on the ground in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV recently?

Over the past 365 days, the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro has seen 93 store closures and 106 warn notices, with 11,055 jobs affected — a figure that is a floor, since notices stating no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs. On the bankruptcy side, the metro shows 1, but this is a STATE PROXY — a court case counts in its filing district and an SEC 8-K in the filer's state, not where the property is, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in; it is not a metro-native count. Note also that coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable.

The figures behind this answer
Store closures
93
WARN layoff notices
106
Jobs on those notices
11,055
CRE-related bankruptcies
1
Window, in days
365
STATE PROXY — a court case counts in its filing district and an SEC 8-K in the filer's state, not where the property is, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count. Each court case is counted once even when both PACER and CourtListener carry it. A court case's state is its filing district; an SEC 8-K or news item carries the filer's state. Coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable.
affected_employees is nullable — notices that state no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs, so this is a floor.
Closures are matched ZIP -> CBSA and only APPROVED rows count (a pending, machine-extracted row is not yet a closure). This mirrors the Metro Pulse page, not the convergence board — the board applies neither filter and counts higher. Layoffs take the same ZIP -> CBSA and review treatment, and a WARN notice counts if it affects >= 10 people or does not state a headcount (a NULL is not 'fewer than 10').
Written from the figures above · CBSA 47900 · geo_events · last changed 25 Oct 2026 · Ask your own question →
What this page can’t do
Everything above is a snapshot — one market, as it stands today, and it’s yours to read. What a snapshot can’t tell you is when it moves: which loan slipped a DSCR band this month, which bank’s early-warning rank crossed into the top quartile, which submarket started turning while the headline number still looked fine. Distress doesn’t announce itself on the day you happen to check.
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CMBS covers the securitized slice of CRE; bank, closure and layoff signals widen the view. “No data” in a zone means we don’t observe it here, not that there is no stress. Employment is BLS (QCEW annual, LAUS monthly) — public data, and the demand leg under all of it.
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