Lee County, FL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lee County, FL, Florida: 38 ZIP codes scored, Lee County, FL averaging 53/100 (high, Lee, FL), from 34 to 66. Lee County, FL is in its contraction phase (Lee, FL confidence 37/100): Lee, FL home prices down 1.4% (Lee, FL) over twelve months, 8.7% under their peak. Lee County, FL lender headwind: 48/100.
Highest-scoring Lee County, FL ZIPs: 33955 (66/100), 33901 (54/100), 33903 (54/100), 33904 (54/100), 33905 (54/100), 33907 (54/100). Also scored in Lee County, FL: 33908, 33909, 33912, 33913, 33914, 33916, 33917, 33919, 33920, 33921.
Across Lee County, FL's scored ZIPs: median home value $439,286, household income $76,779, 26.5% vacancy, 14.5% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 50.0.
Lee County, FL insurance distress 99/100 (#12 in the US); FEMA hazard 99/100 for Lee, FL; 18 federal disaster declarations in Lee County, FL since 2023 (9 hurricane); 7,357 Lee, FL NFIP flood claims, $419.9M paid; Lee, FL construction distress 75/100.
34 banks with 162 branches lend in Lee County, FL; Lee, FL weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 90/100 in Lee, FL.
Lee County, FL unemployment 5.2% (Lee, FL -0.1 pts, six months); 11,252 new housing units permitted in Lee County, FL over twelve months, Lee, FL down 26% from 15,123; Lee, FL home prices +10.3% a year (Lee, FL) over three years.
441,194 housing units in Lee County, FL; 83,155 Lee, FL renter households; 56% of Lee, FL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 29% (Lee, FL) half or more.
Lee County, FL ranks #3 nationally on the opportunity index (Lee, FL, among all ranked counties); Lee, FL scores 45.5/100 and Lee, FL sits #3 inside Florida. Lee, FL is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Lee, FL's primary driver is vacancy, Lee, FL second driver construction; Lee, FL moved up 1 places. 289 short-sale listings across Lee, FL; 67 days on market observed in Lee, FL; 21.2% vacancy over 38 Lee, FL ZIPs.
1.2% of Lee County, FL mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Lee, FL's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.5% (CFPB county sample). Lee, FL's ninety-day rate is up 0.7 points on twelve months earlier; the Lee, FL peak since 2008 was 10.6% in January 2010; Florida overall reads 1.2%.
Lee County, FL has 8 watched banks; 8 Lee, FL banks sit in an elevated band. Lee, FL footprints: Sanibel Captiva Cmty Bank (8 branches, stress 53) in Lee, FL; Edison National Bank (4 branches, stress 83) in Lee, FL; Bankunited National Assn (2 branches, stress 76) in Lee, FL.
HUD lists 26 assisted multifamily properties in Lee County, FL with 1,841 units; 631 Lee, FL units are assisted, 2 Lee, FL properties under project-based Section 8.
113,391 of the 441,194 housing units in Lee, FL sit vacant. Lee County, FL permitted 3,235 multifamily units in twelve months; Lee, FL's one-to-four unit structures added 8,017 units in Lee County, FL.