ZIP 28701 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Buncombe County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 28701 (Buncombe County, North Carolina) at a low 28/100 for overall property distress. The split runs 61/100 structural to 9/100 active on the ground. Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (63/100), structural risk (61/100), mortgage stress (29/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (29/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (87/100), FEMA disaster exposure (77/100).
The peak-phase market in 28701 posted values that rose 0.8% over the year, and 1% higher over three years (phase confidence 18/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The vacancy rate is 18.8% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. 84% of housing is owner-occupied. The ZIP holds roughly 1,935 housing units. A median home runs $324,300 here, or 3.2 times local income. At $92,047, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Population is roughly 5,515 with a median age of 41. 5.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 42% bachelor's-or-above. Around 52% of renters are cost-burdened.
Net-net, 28701 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 28701 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 28701 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 28/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Buncombe County, North Carolina and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 28701 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 28/100 figure for 28701 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 28701 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 28701
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.
28701 at a glance
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 28701, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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