A total of 1.32% residential properties, roughly 1.4 million homes, were vacant, according to the fourth quarter 2025 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report from ATTOM. This is down slightly from 1.33% in the previous quarter.
The states with the highest overall home vacancy rates in the fourth quarter were Oklahoma (2.4%); Kansas (2.3%); Alabama (2.2%); Missouri (2.1%); and West Virginia (2.1%). The lowest overall vacancy rates were in New Hampshire (0.3%); Vermont (0.4%); New Jersey (0.5%); Idaho (0.5%); and Connecticut (0.5%).
The report found 228,943 residential properties nationwide were in the process of foreclosure during the fourth quarter. Of those, 3.25% or about 7,448 homes were “zombie” properties, meaning they had been abandoned by their owner prior to the conclusion of the foreclosure proceedings. That was down from 3.38% in the previous quarter.
The number of zombie properties rose quarter-over-quarter in 21 states and the District of Columbia, but by small margins and as few as a single additional zombie property in some states.
“These continuously low vacancy rates that the nation has held steady at around 1.4 percent for nearly four years, show that record high prices haven’t dampened the demand for homes,” said Rob Barber, CEO of ATTOM. “It’s a good sign for local housing markets that even as we’ve seen foreclosure filings increase, the rate of homes in foreclosure that are abandoned is going down.”
