Macro-financial risk
2026-04-26
11 minute read
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US CRE Office Distress 2026: The Maturity Wall, the Bifurcation, and the Bank Channel
Roughly 1 trillion dollars of US commercial real estate debt matures across 2024 to 2026, office vacancy in major central business districts sits near or above 20 percent, CMBS office delinquency tracks above 11 percent, and the regional bank cohort with CRE concentration above 300 percent of risk-based capital is where the cycle clears.
US commercial real estate enters 2026 in a slow workout, not a crash. The Mortgage Bankers Association estimates total US commercial and multifamily mortgage debt at roughly 4.7 trillion dollars at year-end 2024, with about 957 billion dollars maturing in 2025 after extensions and modifications rolled balances forward from 2023 and 2024. ...