Berkshire County, MA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Berkshire County, MA, Massachusetts: 36 ZIP codes scored, Berkshire County, MA averaging 19/100 (low, Berkshire, MA), from 11 to 20. Berkshire County, MA is in its expansion phase (Berkshire, MA confidence 57/100): Berkshire, MA home prices up 6.8% (Berkshire, MA) over twelve months. Berkshire County, MA lender headwind: 20/100.

Highest-scoring Berkshire County, MA ZIPs: 01008 (20/100), 01029 (19/100), 01201 (19/100), 01220 (19/100), 01222 (19/100), 01223 (19/100). Also scored in Berkshire County, MA: 01224, 01225, 01226, 01229, 01230, 01235, 01236, 01237, 01238, 01240.

Across Berkshire County, MA's scored ZIPs: median home value $420,515, household income $76,111, 28.5% vacancy, 6.9% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 51.9.

Berkshire County, MA insurance distress 5/100 (#2,450 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Berkshire, MA; 1 Berkshire, MA NFIP flood claims; Berkshire, MA construction distress 55/100.

9 banks with 48 branches lend in Berkshire County, MA; Berkshire, MA weighted bank stress 68/100, highest 78/100 in Berkshire, MA.

Berkshire County, MA unemployment 4.1% (Berkshire, MA -1.5 pts, six months); 137 new housing units permitted in Berkshire County, MA over twelve months, Berkshire, MA down 5% from 144; Berkshire, MA home prices +11.5% a year (Berkshire, MA) over three years.

70,004 housing units in Berkshire County, MA; 16,975 Berkshire, MA renter households; 51% of Berkshire, MA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Berkshire, MA) half or more.

Berkshire County, MA ranks #1,656 nationally on the opportunity index (Berkshire, MA, among all ranked counties); Berkshire, MA scores 28.9/100 and Berkshire, MA sits #3 inside Massachusetts. Berkshire, MA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Berkshire, MA's primary driver is vacancy, Berkshire, MA second driver bank institutional; Berkshire, MA moved down 374 places. 36 short-sale listings across Berkshire, MA; 102 days on market observed in Berkshire, MA; 16.8% vacancy over 36 Berkshire, MA ZIPs.

1.1% of Berkshire County, MA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Berkshire, MA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.9% (CFPB county sample). Berkshire, MA's ninety-day rate is up 0.6 points on twelve months earlier; the Berkshire, MA peak since 2008 was 2.4% in January 2012; Massachusetts overall reads 0.6%.

Berkshire County, MA has 5 watched banks; 5 Berkshire, MA banks sit in an elevated band. Berkshire, MA footprints: Beacon Bank&Trust (13 branches, stress 64) in Berkshire, MA; Adams Community Bank (10 branches, stress 78) in Berkshire, MA; Pittsfield Coop Bank (5 branches, stress 78) in Berkshire, MA.

HUD lists 21 assisted multifamily properties in Berkshire County, MA with 1,183 units; 943 Berkshire, MA units are assisted, 11 Berkshire, MA properties under project-based Section 8.

12,419 of the 70,004 housing units in Berkshire, MA sit vacant. Berkshire County, MA permitted 27 multifamily units in twelve months; Berkshire, MA's one-to-four unit structures added 110 units in Berkshire County, MA.