Improved
Why it mattersOwner pulled a change of use permit in 2024.
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1016-18 Cherry St
8 stories · 25,104 sqft · CMX4 · built 1900
Apartment building · 20 units · Su Li Corporation · assessed $3.2M. On the 1000 block of Cherry St.
Property summary
Assessment$3.2MCity assessed value
Last sale$600KRecorded 1991
Est. taxes$45K/yearAnnual city record
Permits6Shown in this report
ViolationsNone openNo open L&I cases
What stands out
From the public record"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder
Why it mattersPhiladelphia records use 1900 as a stand-in when the real construction year was never documented. Treat the age as unknown, not as 120+ years.
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This is a apartment building, recorded under the city's apartments category. The homeowner tools (rent estimate, homestead playbook) don't apply, so they're hidden. The full record and owner trail are below.
What it is
Apartment building
Apts 5-50 Units Masonry
Owner
Su Li Corporation
Tax standing
Assessed $3.2M
On the tax roll
$ / sq ft
$128
below the $151 median for 3,983 apartments parcels citywide
Corridor
Chinatown
city commercial corridor
Licensed units
20
active rental license
Assessed value
$3.2M
City market value
Interior area
25,104 sqft
Lot size
3,427 sqft
Stories
8
Built
1900
Zoning
CMX4
Where the record looks off
Places where the city's own paperwork disagrees with itself. These are flags on the data — not problems with the property.
"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder
Philadelphia records use 1900 as a stand-in when the real construction year was never documented. Treat the age as unknown, not as 120+ years.
Block context
1016-18 Cherry St sits on the 1000 block of Cherry St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 1012-14 Cherry St · 1020-26 Cherry St
Where this comes from
- Assessment, spec sheet & owner — OPA Property Assessments, Office of Property Assessment
- Sales & deed history — Realty Transfer Tax records, Recorder of Deeds
- Permits, violations & inspections — L&I Property History · Atlas
- Back taxes & liens — Real Estate Tax Balances, Dept. of Revenue
- Zoning appeals — L&I & Zoning Board appeals
- Neighborhood income & rents — US Census ACS 5-year estimates
- Historical mortgage rates — Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, annual averages
- Imagery — Street photo © Google · Aerial © Esri, Maxar
Methodology & freshness
City datasets are fetched live from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and cached briefly. Dossiers re-pull automatically — on view once they're a few weeks old, plus a nightly rolling sweep — and citywide benchmarks recompute weekly. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.
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This is 1016-18 Cherry St,
on paper.
Built 1900. Every deed, permit, L&I visit, tax bill and sale for this house — plus its whole block.
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What to catch on the way down.
On the way down: the story of the house, its paper trail drawn on the value chart, and run-the-numbers, a calculator seeded with this house's actual tax bill.
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