CRE Pulse — Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · PA, NJ
The read
$0.6B of CMBS across 54 loans. Retail is the largest book ($0.2B, 0.0% high-risk). The heaviest maturity load lands in 2027 ($0.3B). Realized distress is rising at 11.8%. 4 on-the-ground distress events in the past year.
Overview
CMBS
Banks & Operators
Jobs & Demand
On The Ground
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The most-stressed CMBS properties, recent store closures and layoffs in this market — pinned to address where we have it (ZIP-level otherwise). Open any dot to the loan behind it →
CMBS High-Risk UPB
$0.0B / 0.0%
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$0.3B
Local Banks (stressed)
0 / 8
Bank Early-Warning
1 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
4
Layoff Notices (1y)
0 / 0 jobs
CMBS Loans / UPB
54 / $1B
Unemployment · May 2026
4.2%
0.0pp yr
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 · May 2026
4.2%
0.0pp yr
Last 24 months
3.7%5.5%
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.
Jobs by CRE-relevant sector · 2024
Annual employment by sector (BLS QCEW, 2024; 332,778 jobs in the metro).
QCEW lags — it is the structural read, not the current one, and we pair it with the monthly unemployment above on purpose.
Office-using sums five supersectors; where BLS withholds any one of them for
disclosure, we show nothing rather than a number we know is too low — so a missing sector here means
“suppressed at the source,” not “zero.”
Sector Heat — CMBS high-risk rate by property type (metro vs national)See the loans behind the bar →
0 of 2 property types here run a higher high-risk rate than the national average for that type (the tick on each bar).
Submarket Heat — where in the metro the high-risk sitsOpen the submarket →
The top three submarkets hold $0.5B of the metro's $0.6B; each bar's colored share is its high-risk rate.
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, high-risk within eachSee what’s maturing →
$0.3B — 46% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already high-risk.
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Realized distress is RISING — 11.8% now (2026-07), +11.8pp over the year.
Two different lenses, so the numbers differ on purpose: high-risk (the cards above) is our forward stress score — the share flagged HIGH/CRITICAL. Realized distress here is what’s already delinquent, in special servicing, or below 1.0× DSCR (from the disclosed history panel, so coverage varies).
Share of the metro’s CMBS in special servicing, 60+ days delinquent, or sub-1.0 DSCR, by quarter — a firmer, backward-looking read.
Local Lenders — banks headquartered here, worst CRE noncurrent firstUnlock each bank’s early-warning flag →
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mauch Chunk Trust Company | $113M | 5672% | 0.05% | 🔒 |
| First Northern Bank And Trust Company | $306M | 232% | 1.96% | 🔒 |
| New Tripoli Bank | $198M | 401% | 0.71% | 🔒 |
| Jim Thorpe Neighborhood Bank | $54M | 245% | 0.00% | 🔒 |
| American Bank | $594M | 540% | 0.00% | 🔒 |
| Embassy Bank For The Lehigh Valley | $402M | 316% | 0.00% | 🔒 |
| First Hope Bank, A National Banking Association | $276M | 455% | 0.00% | 🔒 |
| The Neffs National Bank | $82M | 115% | 0.00% | 🔒 |
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.
On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
4 local distress events in the past year — store closures, layoffs, and CRE bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-03-31
CLOSURE
Coopersburg
2026-01-20
CLOSURE
Palmer Township
2025-12-31
CLOSURE
Bethlehem
2025-12-31
CLOSURE
Whitehall
2025-04-25
CLOSURE
South Whitehall Township
2025-01-05
CLOSURE
Lower Macungie Township
2024-11-30
CLOSURE
Lower Nazareth Township
2024-05-06
CLOSURE
Coopersburg
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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