Alabama Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Alabama property distress is mapped statewide by DLRadar — county, ZIP and parcel, all public-record-sourced. Statewide, counties skew expansion, prices up 3.5% on average. Counties break down as 30 expansion, 30 peak, 7 contraction by phase. DLRadar scores 656 Alabama ZIPs across 67 counties (mean composite 26/100).

Among the hardest-hit are Bullock County, Coosa County, Perry County, Hale County, Lawrence County.

By ZIP, Alabama distress peaks in 36201 (35/100), 36205 (35/100), 36206 (35/100), 36207 (35/100), 36250 (35/100).

Here is the county-by-county distress and phase picture for Alabama.

Autauga County is in its expansion phase, prices up 5.4%, 1.4% off peak, lender pressure 45/100. Baldwin County is in its expansion phase, values rising 6.3%, bank stress 34/100. Barbour County reads peak — values rising 3.2%, a 53/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Bibb County as peak — up 2.7% on the year, bank stress 84/100. Blount County sits in peak, up 2.7% on the year, bank stress 38/100. Bullock County — expansion, homes +5.0% YoY, headwind 100/100. Butler County: expansion, homes +5.0% YoY, headwind 38/100.

Calhoun County sits in expansion, homes +12.9% YoY, headwind 48/100. Chambers County sits in peak, prices up 3.2%, lender pressure 52/100. In Cherokee County, expansion: prices up 5.0%, headwind 69/100. In Chilton County, peak: homes +2.7% YoY, lender pressure 83/100. Choctaw County sits in expansion, homes +5.0% YoY, a 64/100 lender reading. Clarke County — expansion, homes +5.0% YoY, a 61/100 lender reading. Clay County: expansion, appreciation near 5.0%, bank stress 76/100.

Cleburne County reads expansion — up 5.0% on the year, a 41/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Coffee County as peak — up 3.2% on the year, lender pressure 46/100. Colbert County is expansion (values rising 8.4%, a 70/100 lender reading). DLRadar reads Conecuh County as expansion — prices up 5.0%, lender pressure 49/100. Coosa County reads peak — appreciation near 3.2%, headwind 100/100. Covington County is in its expansion phase, up 5.0% on the year, lender pressure 40/100. In Crenshaw County, expansion: up 5.0% on the year, headwind 39/100.

Cullman County — peak, up 3.2% on the year, a 37/100 lender reading. In Dale County, peak: values rising 3.2%, bank stress 66/100. Dallas County — peak, values rising 3.2%, bank stress 64/100. Dekalb County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 3.2%, bank stress 35/100. Elmore County — expansion, homes +5.4% YoY, down 1.4% from its high, a 47/100 lender reading. Escambia County is expansion (homes +5.0% YoY, lender pressure 35/100). DLRadar reads Etowah County as peak — homes +0.6% YoY, down 4.6% from its high, headwind 34/100.

Fayette County reads expansion — up 5.0% on the year, headwind 40/100. Franklin County: peak, homes +3.2% YoY, lender pressure 64/100. Geneva County is in its contraction phase, values off 1.2%, down 2.0% from its high. Greene County sits in contraction, down 1.6% on the year, 2.8% below peak, headwind 23/100. DLRadar reads Hale County as contraction — homes -1.6% YoY, down 2.8% from its high, headwind 93/100. Henry County is in its contraction phase, prices down 1.2%, 2.0% off peak, lender pressure 40/100. Houston County reads contraction — values off 1.2%, 2.0% below peak, a 48/100 lender reading.

In Jackson County, peak: prices up 3.2%, lender pressure 41/100. Jefferson County is in its peak phase, values rising 2.7%, headwind 46/100. In Lamar County, expansion: up 5.0% on the year. In Lauderdale County, expansion: up 8.4% on the year, bank stress 69/100. Lawrence County: peak, prices up 1.3%, headwind 90/100. Lee County reads peak — up 0.9% on the year, bank stress 44/100. In Limestone County, peak: up 2.9% on the year, a 47/100 lender reading.

Lowndes County is expansion (homes +5.4% YoY, down 1.4% from its high, headwind 24/100). Macon County: peak, prices up 0.9%, headwind 70/100. Madison County reads peak — up 2.9% on the year, lender pressure 47/100. Marengo County is in its expansion phase, homes +5.0% YoY, a 28/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Marion County as expansion — values rising 5.0%, bank stress 64/100. Marshall County is peak (homes +3.2% YoY, lender pressure 45/100). Mobile County reads peak — values rising 1.0%, headwind 43/100.

Monroe County sits in expansion, up 5.0% on the year, headwind 47/100.

All Alabama readings here are built only from verifiable public records — foreclosure filings, mortgage and tax stress, liens, bank exposure and climate risk — aggregated parcel-to-ZIP-to-county. Given the expansion tilt statewide, what matters is where Alabama counties and ZIPs deviate, not the average itself.

Select any Alabama county below for its breakdown, or head directly to a ZIP score. Subscribers get each distressed Alabama property's owner and contact detail, APN, a score, bank-exposure read and funding-to-closing path.

Regardless of Alabama's statewide average, every county and ZIP is scored the same deterministic way — court and recorder filings, FHFA price data and FDIC lender stress — so Alabama's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else. Nothing is interpolated: Alabama scores rebuild from public records as they post, so the read reflects the documents, not an estimate.

County by county, Bullock County, Coosa County, Perry County, Hale County, Lawrence County lead the ranking ; the top ZIP codes are 36201 (35/100), 36205 (35/100), 36206 (35/100), 36207 (35/100), 36250 (35/100).

The Alabama numbers are not single measures but composites, foreclosure, tax-lien, mortgage and bank-stress signals scored separately so two markets with the same total can differ sharply underneath.

However large or small Alabama is, the acquisition path holds: start at the county with the sharpest reading, drill to its highest-scoring ZIPs, then to the individual parcels behind those scores — and DLRadar carries the Alabama deal from that signal through capital and closing.

Because the model is deterministic, any Alabama reading can be reconciled against its source documents — court filings, county tax and lien records, FHFA and FDIC data — so nothing about the Alabama read is a black box.