Massachusetts Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Massachusetts property distress is mapped statewide by DLRadar — county, ZIP and parcel, every figure record-sourced. Most Massachusetts counties sit in a peak phase, with home prices up 3.3% year over year. By market phase, the county split is 12 peak, 1 expansion, 1 neutral. Coverage spans 14 Massachusetts counties and 539 ZIPs, a 23/100 mean composite.

The sharpest county readings come from Hampshire County, Franklin County, Worcester County, Bristol County, Barnstable County.

Statewide ZIP distress tops out at 01005 (29/100), 01031 (29/100), 01037 (29/100), 01068 (29/100), 01074 (29/100).

A county-level read across Massachusetts follows.

Barnstable County: neutral, up 3.7% on the year, lender pressure 61/100. Berkshire County sits in expansion, values rising 6.8%, lender pressure 20/100. Bristol County is peak (homes +4.4% YoY, bank stress 62/100). In Dukes County, peak: homes +2.9% YoY, bank stress 52/100. Essex County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 2.9%, lender pressure 47/100. DLRadar reads Franklin County as peak — appreciation near 2.9%, headwind 71/100. DLRadar reads Hampden County as peak — prices up 4.4%, headwind 51/100.

Hampshire County sits in peak, appreciation near 1.5%, a 83/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Middlesex County as peak — prices up 2.9%, bank stress 53/100. DLRadar reads Nantucket County as peak — up 2.9% on the year, a 48/100 lender reading. Norfolk County is in its peak phase, values rising 2.9%, lender pressure 48/100. Plymouth County sits in peak, prices up 2.9%, a 41/100 lender reading. Suffolk County reads peak — prices up 2.9%, lender pressure 40/100. Worcester County is peak (homes +2.5% YoY, headwind 64/100).

Massachusetts opportunity phases: 10 weak, 3 early_signal, 1 overheated; Massachusetts average index 24.1. Best-ranked Massachusetts counties: Nantucket #559 (33.1), vacancy; Barnstable #898 (31.6), vacancy; Berkshire #1,653 (28.9), vacancy in Massachusetts; Dukes #1,837 (28.3), vacancy; Worcester #2,872 (24.0), bank institutional; Suffolk #2,999 (23.1), bank institutional.

Massachusetts mortgages ninety-plus days late: 0.6%; Massachusetts thirty-to-eighty-nine days late 1.5% (December 2025); 11 Massachusetts counties sit in the CFPB sample; highest Massachusetts county readings: Hampden 1.2%, Berkshire 1.1%, Bristol 1.1%, Plymouth 0.8%, Worcester 0.7%.

Massachusetts county unemployment averages 4.2% across 14 counties; Massachusetts permitted 13,778 housing units in twelve months (8,198 multifamily); 245,364 of 3,030,406 Massachusetts housing units are vacant; 1,033,084 Massachusetts renter households, 48.1% spending 30%+ of income on rent.

Massachusetts ZIP price-cycle phases: 1,384 peak, 235 expansion, 128 neutral, 63 contraction, 1 recovery.