ZIP 98108 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · High Poverty market
DLRadar grades ZIP 98108 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 30/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 66 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) stay muted.
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 1% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
24,430 residents call 98108 home, typically aged 37. The tenure split is 57% owner-occupied to 43% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 98108 scores 45/100. The vacancy rate is 6.3%. Home values center near $720,400, an affordability ratio of 7.6× — stretched. Median household income is $90,806, above the U.S. median near $78,000. About 37% have a four-year degree. There are about 9,544 housing units across 98108. Roughly 21.1% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Around 39% of renters are cost-burdened.
Taken together, 98108 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 98108 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98108's 30/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in King County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98108 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 30/100 figure for 98108 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. The point of the 98108 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Signal-by-signal read on 98108
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 98108 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 98108, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
Adjacent King County ZIP reports
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The complete 98108 distress and acquisition report
The full 98108 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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