ZIP 98826 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Chelan County, Washington · High Vacancy market
ZIP 98826's composite property-distress score is 36/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Chelan County, Washington. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (90/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100). The latent-versus-live split is 80/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (80/100), institutional ownership (68/100), construction/permit lag (68/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low.
The contraction-phase market in 98826 posted values that fell 2.6% over the year, 2.6% off the recent peak, and 16% higher over three years, at 65/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.
At $85,594, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 5,954 housing units. About 44% have a four-year degree. 72% of housing is owner-occupied. 7,817 residents call 98826 home, typically aged 53. Vacancy runs 42.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 98826 scores 42/100. Roughly 9.0% live below the poverty line. The typical home is worth about $720,000 (7.5× income, severely stretched).
Taken together, 98826 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 98826 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
No ZIP is too small to score: 98826 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 36/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the record is thin for 98826, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
Behind 98826'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 an operator, 98826 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 98826
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 98826 distress snapshot
A live read on 98826: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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