CRE Pulse — Charleston-North Charleston, SC
The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · SC
The read
$0.8B of CMBS across 68 loans. Retail is the largest book ($0.4B, 0.0% high-risk). The heaviest maturity load lands in 2033 ($0.3B). Realized distress is easing at 0.0%. 13 on-the-ground distress events in the past year (1,401 jobs).
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
$0.1B
Local Banks (stressed)
0 / 3
Bank Early-Warning
0 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
3
Layoff Notices (1y)
10 / 1,401 jobs
CMBS Loans / UPB
68 / $1B
Unemployment · May 2026
3.2%
-0.1pp yr
Office-Using Jobs · 2024
71,840
-1.7% 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
3.2%
-0.1pp yr
Last 24 months
3.0%4.7%
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; 320,427 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 3 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 $0.6B of the metro's $0.8B; each bar's colored share is its high-risk rate.
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, high-risk within eachSee what’s maturing →
$0.1B — 12% 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 FALLING — 0.0% now (2026-07), -3.1pp 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bank Of South Carolina | $138M | 232% | 0.24% | 🔒 |
| Beacon Community Bank | $294M | 386% | 0.00% | 🔒 |
| First Capital Bank | $482M | 454% | 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.
Apartment-REIT Operating Read — same-store disclosures for this metro · as of 2026-04-29Set against the loan book →
Same-Store NOI
+1.6%
Same-Store Revenue
+1.6%
Occupancy
95.6%
Rent Growth
+1.4%
| REIT | SS NOI | SS Revenue | Occupancy | Rent | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAA | +1.6% | +1.6% | 95.6% | +1.4% | 2026-04-29 |
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 →
13 local distress events in the past year (1,401 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and CRE bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-05-21
LAYOFF
58 jobs · Berkeley
2026-05-01
LAYOFF
39 jobs · Charleston
2026-04-13
LAYOFF
122 jobs · Charleston
2026-03-16
LAYOFF
78 jobs · Dorchester
2026-02-28
LAYOFF
194 jobs · Charleston
2026-02-28
LAYOFF
133 jobs · Charleston
2026-02-28
LAYOFF
194 jobs · Charleston
2025-12-31
CLOSURE
North Charleston
2025-12-31
CLOSURE
Charleston
2025-10-01
LAYOFF
215 jobs · Charleston
2025-08-01
LAYOFF
76 jobs · Berkeley
2025-07-31
CLOSURE
North Charleston
2025-07-31
LAYOFF
292 jobs · Charleston
2025-06-30
LAYOFF
210 jobs · Dorchester
2025-06-19
LAYOFF
125 jobs · Charleston
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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