Massachusetts Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Massachusetts property distress is mapped statewide by DLRadar — county, ZIP and parcel, all public-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 24/100 mean composite.

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

Statewide ZIP distress tops out at 02534 (30/100), 02536 (30/100), 02537 (30/100), 02540 (30/100), 02542 (30/100).

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).

Every Massachusetts score above is deterministic: each foreclosure, mortgage-stress, tax-delinquency, lien, bank-exposure and climate signal traces back to a specific public record, then rolls up from parcel to ZIP to county. Since Massachusetts runs peak overall, the edge is in the divergence — the counties and ZIPs that don't match the headline.

Pick a Massachusetts county to go deeper, or drill straight to a ZIP report. Subscribers get each distressed Massachusetts property's owner, mailing address, APN, a score, bank-exposure read and funding-to-closing path.

However concentrated Massachusetts's distress turns out to be, each market is graded on the identical public-record model — foreclosure, tax, lien, mortgage and bank-stress signals — so Massachusetts's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else. Nothing is interpolated: Massachusetts scores rebuild from public records as they post, with nothing modeled to fill a gap.

At the county level, the markets DLRadar flags first are Hampshire County, Franklin County, Worcester County, Bristol County, Barnstable County .

The Massachusetts numbers are not single measures but composites, combining foreclosure activity, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind into one 0–100 reading per market.

The way to act on Massachusetts doesn't change with the state: start at the county with the sharpest reading, drill to its highest-scoring ZIPs, then to the individual parcels behind those scores , with DLRadar handling scoring, funding and closing from there.

As the scoring is fully auditable, a Massachusetts score can be traced back to the exact filings behind it — foreclosure dockets, tax rolls, recorded liens, FHFA price series and FDIC call reports — which is what makes the Massachusetts data defensible to cite.