ZIP 98119 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · High Value market
ZIP code 98119 in King County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 30/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 66/100 structural and 6/100 already moving.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 5% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The ZIP holds roughly 15,869 housing units. Home values center near $1,047,600, an affordability ratio of 8.3× — stretched. 39% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 72% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 26% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 9.5%. At $125,021, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 40/100. 26,390 residents call 98119 home, typically aged 34. Roughly 7.1% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.
On balance 98119 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 98119 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Big metro or rural, 98119 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 30/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in King County, Washington and the nation. Sparse data for 98119 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
The 30/100 for 98119 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 98119 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 98119
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
The 98119 distress snapshot
A live read on 98119: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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The complete 98119 distress and acquisition report
The full 98119 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.
Built from public records, scored the same way everywhere · methodology