ZIP 26705 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Preston County, West Virginia · High Vacancy market
In Preston County, West Virginia, ZIP 26705 scores 14 of 100 for composite distress, a minimal level on DLRadar's distress index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (74/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (38/100), structural risk (33/100), mortgage stress (19/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (33/100) and mortgage stress (19/100). On the structural side it scores 33/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.
Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.7% over the trailing year, at 55/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
The typical home is worth about $152,100 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). The ZIP holds roughly 416 housing units. About 680 people live here, median age 46. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Owners hold 68% of homes, renters 32%. The vacancy rate is 28.2% — elevated. Educational attainment sits at 24% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $55,230 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 11.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100.
Net-net, 26705 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 26705 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 26705's 14/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Preston County, West Virginia or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the record is thin for 26705, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
Each component behind 26705 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 14/100 roll-up. For an operator, 26705 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 26705
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 26705 by the numbers
Live ZIP-level distress, market-phase, housing and bank-pressure read — the same report attached to every property.
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Get the full acquisition report for 26705
The full 26705 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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