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1005 Brandywine St

3 bd · 3 ba · 3 stories · 2,289 sqft · RSA5 · built 2020

Absentee individual · assessed $695K (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $695K · 2 licensed units · sold 1×. On the 1000 block of Brandywine St.

Property summary

Assessment$695,0002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $695,000 Last sale$185KRecorded 2017 Est. tax bill$1,946/year2026 taxable assessment · full-value scenario $9,729/year · basis and term unverified Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits7Dated events in report Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records

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Street view of 1005 Brandywine St
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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$1,946/year

2026 taxable assessment $139,000 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $695,000; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

Official current account balanceCheck live

A Tax Center balance is net of bills, payments, credits, interest, and adjustments. A credit—or an amount due—is not automatically “back taxes.”

OPA 141240200
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Exemption classificationPartial assessment exemption — basis unverified

2026 OPA taxes $139,000 of $695,000 assessed. The assessment fields alone do not identify a program, approval date, expiration, or buyer eligibility.

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Full-assessment scenario$9,729/year

Applying the same rate to the billed-year full assessment. OPA's numeric split does not say when or whether the current treatment changes.

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Historical delinquency sources Record found

The June 2022 delinquency snapshot was not verifiably available in this cached report. No conclusion about a match—or today’s balance—can be drawn from that absence.

A separate historical parcel ledger ending in 2016 records $2,076.42 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.

2014$372.10 total · $0.00 principal · $177.88 interest · $86.46 penalty2015$193.45 total · $0.00 principal · $53.89 interest · $41.91 penalty2016$1,510.87 total · $1,306.00 principal · $19.59 interest · $13.06 penalty

For a purchase, refinance, or closing, request the City’s official Property Payoff statement in Tax Center under “More options.”

What stands out

From the public record
Finding

Torn down & rebuilt

Why it matters

Old house bought for $132K in 2017, demolished in 2014 and rebuilt (2019).

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What to do with this

The record, translated into moves — what a buyer, the owner, and a landlord would each want to check next under Philadelphia's actual rules.

If you’re buying

Verify the current tax bill and exemption

The 2026 taxable assessment implies about $1,946/yr, while applying the same rate to the full assessment would imply about $9,729/yr — $7,783/yr more. OPA's assessment split does not establish the exemption program, expiration, or buyer eligibility. Verify the basis and live bill with OPA and Revenue.

2 units and RSA5 zoning need reconciliation

The assessment or license record describes multiple units while the zoning district is generally single-family. That does not establish whether the use is lawful, nonconforming, abandoned, or incorrectly coded. Verify the registered use and Certificate of Occupancy with L&I before pricing multiple rents.

If you own it

$2,076 in the historical tax ledger through 2016

Historical context only, not a current payoff figure; that ledger also contains a lien entry. Verify today's balance and lien status directly with Philadelphia Revenue before relying on it.

If you’re the landlord

Licensed rental — keep it that way

Renewal requires city tax clearance and zero open L&I violations on the property. A lapsed license suspends the right to collect rent or evict.

Derived from the fetched property records and linked City guidance as of 2026. Assessment treatment is not a substitute for an exemption approval, live balance, title report, license, occupancy certificate, or inspection. Informational only — not legal, tax, or investment advice.

The investment read

How this building has moved and where it's pointed: the city's assessed value (not a listing price) over 12 years, charted against its block; appreciation is that history's pace, and the 5-year figure simply extends it. Yield estimates rent-vs-price from area rents. Ask the record to dig into any number.

Assessed value
$695,000
2026 billed-year assessment · 2027: $695,000 · built 2020
Price / sq ft
$304
block $221 · above block
Appreciation
+211%
+11%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$699K
+11%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax bill / yr
$1,946
0.28% effective, reduced taxable assessment
Jun 2022 tax snapshot
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Gross yield
3.2%
≈$2K/mo rent
Times sold
1
licensed rental

Assessment vs. the block · every dated City record marked on the line

$0$500K$1.0M2016 OPA assessment: $224K2017 OPA assessment: $224K2018 OPA assessment: $224K2019 OPA assessment: $53K2020 OPA assessment: $53K2021 OPA assessment: $53K2022 OPA assessment: $689K2023 OPA assessment: $689K2024 OPA assessment: $689K2025 OPA assessment: $695K2026 OPA assessment: $695K2027 OPA assessment: $695K2014 — Demolished2017 — Land record $132K2019 — 2019-05-22: Zoning board appeal$695K201420172020202320262027
This propertyBlock median & rangeLand buyTeardownAppeal
2019-05-22: Zoning board appeal
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Every dated record3 events · scroll to browse
  1. AppealZoning board appeal
  2. Land buyLand record $132K
  3. TeardownDemolished

The paper trail

Torn down & rebuilt

Old house bought for $132K in 2017, demolished in 2014 and rebuilt (2019).

  1. 2014 DemolishedTeardownL&I: 1 failed, 4 passedL&I visit
  2. 2017 $132KLand buy
  3. 2018 2 L&I violationsL&I
  4. 2019 Appeal granted with conditionsZoningZoning/usePermit
  5. 2020 New ConstructionPermitNew ConstructionPermitNew ConstructionPermitNew Construction or AdditionsPermitNew ConstructionPermit
  6. 2023 Change of UsePermit

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  1. AppealZoning board appeal

    Appeal 36953 · OPEN · Granted with conditions

    PERMIT FOR THE ERECTION OF AN ATTACHED STRUCTURE(NTE 38; HIGH), ROOF DECK ON/UPON/ABOVE THE THIRD FLOOR ROOF ACCESSED BY AN ENCLOSED STAIR STRUCTURE(PILOTHOUSE)( NOT TO EXCEED 125 SF AND MAXIMUM HEIGHT NOT TO EXCEED 10FT ABOVE ROOF DECK S

  2. Land recordLand record

    2017

What this record suggests

The timeline preserves the dated City rows that matched this parcel. It is a sequence to verify, not a conclusion about present condition.

Flags: material assessment exemption — legal basis and term unverified · active rental license · historical tax ledger through 2016 recorded $2K with a lien entry · 1 zoning/board appeal on record. Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

The assessment exemption gap

OPA's 2026 taxable assessment implies about $1,946/year. Applying the same 1.3998% rate to the full assessed value would imply ~$9,729/year — $7,783/year more. That is a scenario, not a forecast: the assessment split alone does not identify the exemption program, approval date, expiration, transfer treatment, or live Tax Center balance.

2016: ~$2,711/yr2017: ~$2,711/yr2018: ~$3,131/yr2019: ~$745/yr2020: ~$745/yr2021: ~$745/yr2022: ~$1,558/yr2023: ~$1,930/yr2024: ~$1,930/yr2025: ~$1,946/yr2026: ~$1,946/yr20162026
2026~$1,946/yrestimated from assessment

2026: ($695,000 assessed − $555,980 exempt) × 1.3998% ≈ $1,946/yr full-assessment scenario: $695,000 × 1.3998% ≈ $9,729/yr The OPA amount does not prove a ten-year abatement or any other specific program. Obtain the approval history and verify the current Tax Center account; a buyer should not assume the seller's relief transfers or restarts.

The property, on paper

The city assessor's field record — the physical spec sheet behind the assessed number.

Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
3
Stories
3
Interior
2,289 sqft
livable area
Lot
1,026 sqft
Basement
Full, finished
city code A
Central air
Yes
Exterior condition
Newer construction
city code 1
Newer construction
Interior condition
Newer construction
city code 1
Newer construction
Zoning
RSA5
city zoning code
Zoning appeals
1
OPEN · Granted with conditions · 2019

OPA field-assessment attributes. Condition and grade are the assessor's codes, not an inspection.

Run the numbers

What owning 1005 Brandywine St takes, at your price and your rate. Taxes start with an annual estimate from the City’s taxable assessment, not a current bill or balance; rent starts at 2 licensed units × ~85% of the area's median unit rent — the whole building's income, not one unit's. Assessed value is not an asking price — set the price slider to the real one.

$695K
20%
6.875%
$3K/mo

When this house last sold (2017) a 30-year mortgage ran about 3.99% — Freddie Mac's average that year.

Mortgage
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P&I · 30-yr fixed
All-in monthly
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+ taxes & insurance
Cash to close
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down + ~4% costs
Cash flow
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rent − all costs · /mo
Cap rate
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NOI ÷ price
Cash-on-cash
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year-1 return on cash in

Estimates for orientation, not advice. Assumes a 30-year fixed loan, $1,400/yr insurance, 1% of price/yr maintenance; taxes use this parcel's taxable assessment with an optional full-assessment stress test, not a live Tax Center balance.

Block context

1005 Brandywine St sits on the 1000 block of Brandywine St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 1007 Brandywine St  ·  1001 Brandywine St

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 9, 2026, 3:33 PM ET. Available City datasets are queried from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and the cited City ArcGIS feeds; record queries paginate rather than silently taking a first page. “Unavailable” means the source query failed or was not supplied, not “no record.” Reports re-pull on view after seven days and on an overnight rolling schedule; citywide benchmarks recompute weekly. Source dates still govern: the parcel-level tax-delinquency snapshot is June 2022 and the separate detailed tax ledger ends in 2016, so neither establishes today’s balance. The live balance and date-effective payoff must be verified in Tax Center. AI-written passages are grounded in the assembled record and rejected if they state a number the record does not hold.

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