California Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

California sits in DLRadar's nationwide distress index, scored entirely from deterministic public records. Across the state the phase mix is 30 peak, 26 contraction, 2 neutral. 58 counties and 1,802 ZIPs are tracked statewide, averaging 27/100. California leans peak overall, with average prices up 0.1% YoY.

The sharpest county readings come from Alpine County, Sierra County, Marin County, San Francisco County, Yuba County.

The highest-scoring California ZIPs are 91752 (36/100), 92201 (36/100), 92203 (36/100), 92210 (36/100), 92211 (36/100) — open any for the parcel read.

The California breakdown, county by county:

Alameda County — peak, appreciation near 0.4%, headwind 56/100. DLRadar reads Alpine County as peak — prices up 0.4%, a 100/100 lender reading. In Amador County, contraction: little price movement, bank stress 47/100. Butte County is in its contraction phase, values off 2.4%, 2.4% below peak, headwind 36/100. In Calaveras County, contraction: values about even, a 26/100 lender reading. Colusa County — contraction, little price movement, lender pressure 44/100. Contra Costa County sits in peak, appreciation near 0.4%, headwind 51/100.

Del Norte County — peak, prices up 0.4%, a 44/100 lender reading. El Dorado County — contraction, values off 0.5%, lender pressure 49/100. Fresno County reads peak — up 1.2% on the year, down 2.2% from its high, lender pressure 46/100. Glenn County — contraction, little price movement, a 40/100 lender reading. Humboldt County is in its peak phase, prices up 0.4%, a 48/100 lender reading. Imperial County is in its peak phase, values rising 2.7%, headwind 19/100. DLRadar reads Inyo County as peak — up 0.4% on the year, bank stress 49/100.

In Kern County, contraction: down 0.9% on the year, a 44/100 lender reading. Kings County — contraction, values about even, headwind 44/100. Lake County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 0.4%, headwind 27/100. Lassen County sits in peak, values rising 0.4%, headwind 33/100. Los Angeles County sits in peak, homes +0.4% YoY, lender pressure 53/100. Madera County — peak, prices up 1.2%, 2.2% below peak, bank stress 42/100. Marin County reads peak — homes +0.4% YoY, lender pressure 61/100.

Mariposa County sits in contraction, prices flat, a 36/100 lender reading. Mendocino County reads peak — appreciation near 0.4%, bank stress 35/100. DLRadar reads Merced County as contraction — homes -1.1% YoY, down 3.3% from its high, lender pressure 31/100. Modoc County reads contraction — prices flat, headwind 33/100. DLRadar reads Mono County as contraction — little price movement, headwind 53/100. Monterey County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 0.5%, down 2.2% from its high, a 53/100 lender reading. In Napa County, contraction: prices down 2.1%, 2.1% below peak, headwind 38/100.

In Nevada County, peak: appreciation near 0.4%, lender pressure 40/100. Orange County sits in peak, homes +0.4% YoY, lender pressure 53/100. Placer County is contraction (homes -0.5% YoY, bank stress 55/100). Plumas County is in its contraction phase, little price movement, lender pressure 17/100. Riverside County is peak (little price movement, lender pressure 54/100). Sacramento County — contraction, values off 0.5%, bank stress 52/100. San Benito County sits in contraction, values off 1.0%, down 1.6% from its high, a 48/100 lender reading.

San Bernardino County is in its peak phase, prices flat, bank stress 55/100. San Diego County — neutral, values rising 2.0%, a 55/100 lender reading. San Francisco County reads peak — prices up 0.4%, headwind 59/100. San Joaquin County sits in contraction, prices down 2.5%, 2.7% below peak, bank stress 30/100. San Luis Obispo County is in its neutral phase, prices up 3.7%, lender pressure 17/100. San Mateo County is in its peak phase, values rising 0.4%, a 56/100 lender reading. Santa Barbara County is in its peak phase, homes +2.1% YoY, a 55/100 lender reading.

Santa Clara County is contraction (a 1.0% slide, 1.6% below peak, a 56/100 lender reading). Santa Cruz County is in its peak phase, up 1.4% on the year, a 51/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Shasta County as peak — prices flat, a 23/100 lender reading. Sierra County: contraction, little price movement, headwind 100/100. DLRadar reads Siskiyou County as contraction — little price movement, lender pressure 27/100. Solano County is in its contraction phase, down 0.7% on the year, down 2.1% from its high, headwind 38/100. DLRadar reads Sonoma County as peak — prices up 0.9%, headwind 56/100.

In Stanislaus County, peak: up 2.0% on the year, headwind 34/100.

All California 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. Because California skews peak, the value isn't the statewide average — it's the spread, where individual counties and ZIPs diverge from it.

Pick a California county to go deeper, or drill straight to a ZIP report. Subscribers get each distressed California property's owner, address and APN, a distress score, lender exposure and exit-velocity read.

Whether California runs hot or quiet on distress, the whole state runs through one nationwide scoring engine — court and recorder filings, FHFA price data and FDIC lender stress — so California stays directly comparable to any other state you track. Nothing is interpolated: California scores rebuild from public records as they post, with nothing modeled to fill a gap.

Drilling into California, Alpine County, Sierra County, Marin County, San Francisco County, Yuba County lead the ranking .

Under every California score sit several layers — combining foreclosure activity, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind so two markets with the same total can differ sharply underneath.

For a buyer, the workflow in California is the same regardless of the state's size: open the top-ranked county, follow it down to the hottest ZIPs, and finish at the specific parcels driving the distress — and DLRadar carries the California deal from that signal through capital and closing.

Since every input is public and rules-based, a California score can be traced back to the exact filings behind it — foreclosure dockets, tax rolls, recorded liens, FHFA price series and FDIC call reports — leaving no unexplained or modeled component in the California score.