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Summary
Trepp reports $3.04 billion in performing Texas floating-rate agency multifamily loans with debt-service coverage below 1.0x. The 130 loans are current, not delinquent. Loans securitized in 2021–22 account for 87.5% of delinquent Texas floating-rate agency balances.
More than $3 billion in Texas apartment loans are still performing even though their reported property cash flow does not cover debt service, according to a new analysis of securitized mortgage data. The finding exposes a weakness that payment-delinquency figures alone can miss.
Trepp’s October 21 review identified 130 performing floating-rate agency multifamily loans with a combined $3.04 billion balance and net-cash-flow debt service coverage ratios below 1.0. That represents 25.3% of the performing balance in the particular loan segment studied. The balance-weighted coverage ratio for those 130 loans was 0.77.
Coverage below 1.0 indicates that reported property net cash flow falls short of the debt service reflected in the calculation. A borrower may nonetheless remain current by drawing on reserves, making capital contributions or relying on other resources. Trepp’s finding does not mean that one-quarter of all Texas apartment loans are in default.
The exposure is concentrated in floating-rate debt
Texas has about $150.10 billion in securitized multifamily debt across the market tracked by Trepp. The subset of floating-rate agency loans totals $12.75 billion. Within that subset, 28 loans representing $751.2 million are delinquent, producing a 5.89% balance-weighted delinquency rate.
That is substantially above the 1.26% rate for the rest of the Texas agency multifamily book. Floating-rate loans represent 21.3% of Texas agency multifamily balances but 55.8% of the segment’s delinquent debt.
The loan vintages tell an equally sharp story. Loans securitized in 2021 and 2022 account for $657.1 million, or 87.5%, of the delinquent floating-rate balance. Their delinquency rate is 11.33%, compared with 1.35% for loans from other years. Many borrowers from that period entered transactions when benchmark interest rates were considerably lower.
Trepp reports a weighted-average coupon of 5.74% on Texas floating-rate agency loans, against 4.66% for fixed-rate agency loans. The average rate is 5.99% among delinquent floating-rate loans. Those averages describe the portfolios studied; they are not current consumer mortgage rates.
Large loans can move the numbers
Texas’s average delinquent floating-rate agency apartment loan carries $26.8 million, larger than the corresponding averages in the other four states Trepp compared. That matters when interpreting balance-weighted delinquency rates: a small number of large loans can influence the statewide percentage.
Trepp singled out The Kace, a 720-unit property in Grand Prairie with a $92.2 million loan, and Weston Medical Center Apartments, a 793-unit Houston property with an $83.8 million loan. Both were transferred to special servicing in April 2026 for imminent monetary default. The Kace’s 2025 net cash flow equated to a 4.4% debt yield; Weston’s most recent reported coverage ratio was 0.57.
Those loan-level disclosures illustrate pressure, but they do not establish the eventual resolution. A special-servicing transfer can lead to a modification, extension, sale, foreclosure or other negotiated outcome.
What the state comparisons show
Among the five states with the largest securitized multifamily debt balances, Texas’s floating-rate agency delinquency rate of 5.89% trails New York’s 12.52% but exceeds California’s 2.20%, Florida’s 1.28% and Georgia’s 0.40%. The composition of each state’s loan book differs, so those figures are not rankings of overall apartment-market health.
The broader industry faces a difficult combination of rate resets, operating expenses and competition for tenants. WRE has reported separately on credit pressure in New York rent-regulated multifamily lending. The Texas figures involve a different population of loans and different property economics.
The immediate risk to monitor is whether currently performing loans with thin coverage can restore cash flow or obtain extensions before maturities. For lenders and bond investors, those loans may require attention long before a payment becomes overdue.
Source: Trepp, October 21, 2026. Photo: Tobias Wilden / Unsplash, illustrative apartment building, not a Texas loan collateral property.
