ZIP 01242 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Berkshire County, Massachusetts · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 01242 (Berkshire County, Massachusetts) at a low 19/100 for overall property distress. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (47/100), structural risk (40/100), institutional ownership (5/100). institutional ownership (5/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100). On the structural side it scores 40/100, with 0/100 of stress already active.
The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.8% year on year (phase confidence 57/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
Owners hold 100% of homes, renters 0%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. About 165 people live here, median age 53. The ZIP holds roughly 58 housing units. 6.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 58.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
On the whole, 01242 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 01242 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
The 01242 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 19/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 01242 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 01242 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
Behind 01242's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 01242 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 01242
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 01242 Stress Report snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 01242, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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