Distressed Properties in Ohio

Distress in Ohio concentrates where the market has rolled over, so that is where the search starts. DLRadar grades every one of the 88 Ohio counties on foreclosure pressure, lender stress and insurance distress -- the upstream forces behind motivated sellers. 2 Ohio counties are already in contraction or early recovery, where prices have rolled over and distressed inventory tends to build first, against a statewide average home-price move of +4.3% year over year.

The earliest Ohio movers on the cycle are Richland, Belmont, and distressed inventory tends to follow. The full Ohio table follows, sorted by where each county sits in the price cycle.

Finding the Ohio property is step one; scoring it, funding it and closing it all happen in the same platform.

Distress wears several faces in Ohio: a pre-foreclosure or tax-delinquent parcel, an owner priced out of coverage, or a county where lender pullback is choking financing. Scoring each lens separately from public data lets you see where two or three pressures overlap, which is where real motivation sits.

At the state level Ohio shows 61/100 bank stress and 14/100 insurance distress, both of which move before foreclosure counts do.

Each Ohio metric here has a public provenance -- price cycle from FHFA and county data, lender stress from FDIC, insurance from FEMA/NFIP. Where a county lacks a signal, the field is empty rather than interpolated.