Real County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Real County, Texas carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. DLRadar scores 8 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 17/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 73/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 9 to 28 out of 100.

Currently peak, Real County saw prices rise 2.0% year over year, at 22/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.

At +2.0% YoY and 22/100 confidence, the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Its 73/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Top distress by ZIP runs 78024 (28/100), 78058 (26/100), 78801 (18/100), 78873 (15/100), 78879 (15/100), 78828 (13/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Coverage extends to 78833, 78880 among others.

Underneath the scores, the Real County ZIPs on file run home values averaging roughly $359,233, in line with the US, 80% of homes owner-occupied, residents with a median age around 47.9, a 14% poverty rate, 42.2% of units sitting vacant, a median household income near $58,111 (below the US norm). Income, equity and tenure like these set up who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

With a low 17/100 reading over 8 ZIPs, Real County is a screen-by-ZIP market rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Real County property carries owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

The distress read for Real County, Texas is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Real County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Used properly, Real County, Texas's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Real County as a whole. What supports the Real County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Real County are 78024 (28/100), 78058 (26/100), 78801 (18/100), 78873 (15/100), 78879 (15/100), 78828 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 78833, 78880 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Real County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.