Maine Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every Maine county and ZIP carries a DLRadar distress score built from public records. The dominant market phase statewide is peak (avg HPI +2.2% YoY). The state covers 16 scored counties and 426 ZIP codes, averaging 23/100 composite distress. The phase distribution across counties: 15 peak, 1 contraction.

Waldo County, Piscataquis County, Knox County, Androscoggin County, Penobscot County top Maine for distress; drill into any for the ZIP detail.

At the ZIP level, the highest distress in Maine shows up in 03901 (28/100), 03902 (28/100), 03903 (28/100), 03904 (28/100), 03905 (28/100).

Distress and market phase, county by county in Maine:

Androscoggin County — peak, prices up 0.8%, headwind 80/100. Aroostook County: peak, appreciation near 2.0%, lender pressure 72/100. Cumberland County is in its peak phase, values rising 4.2%, bank stress 62/100. Franklin County: peak, up 2.0% on the year, bank stress 34/100. Hancock County sits in peak, values rising 2.0%, headwind 70/100. Kennebec County is in its peak phase, prices up 2.9%, a 60/100 lender reading. Knox County: peak, prices up 2.0%, lender pressure 84/100.

Lincoln County reads peak — up 2.0% on the year, a 78/100 lender reading. Oxford County sits in peak, values rising 2.0%, lender pressure 47/100. Penobscot County sits in contraction, values off 0.5%, down 2.9% from its high, a 80/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Piscataquis County as peak — appreciation near 2.0%, headwind 100/100. Sagadahoc County: peak, values rising 4.2%, headwind 52/100. Somerset County reads peak — prices up 2.0%, a 55/100 lender reading. Waldo County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 2.0%, lender pressure 100/100.

Washington County is in its peak phase, up 2.0% on the year, lender pressure 80/100. York County is in its peak phase, values rising 4.2%, a 77/100 lender reading.

Every Maine 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. With the state leaning peak, the opportunity sits in the outliers: the counties and ZIPs that break from the Maine norm.

Pick a Maine county to go deeper, or head directly to a ZIP score. Subscribers get each distressed Maine property's owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, bank exposure and an exit read.

Regardless of Maine's statewide average, the whole state runs through one nationwide scoring engine — court and recorder filings, FHFA price data and FDIC lender stress — so a Maine county can be weighed against any market in the country on equal footing. The data is auditable end to end: where a Maine source is thin, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, with nothing modeled to fill a gap.

Within Maine, the markets DLRadar flags first are Waldo County, Piscataquis County, Knox County, Androscoggin County, Penobscot County ; the top ZIP codes are 03901 (28/100), 03902 (28/100), 03903 (28/100), 03904 (28/100), 03905 (28/100).

Under every Maine score sit several layers — combining foreclosure activity, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind before they roll up to the number shown.

The way to act on Maine doesn't change with the state: 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 Maine deal from that signal through capital and closing.

As the scoring is fully auditable, each Maine number decomposes into the records that produced it — the public foreclosure, tax, lien, price and bank-stress sources — which is what makes the Maine data defensible to cite.