New construction
Why it mattersbuilt new under a 2025 permit, sold for $215K in 2025.
View supporting records →House report
1024 W Orleans St
Vacant · assessed $18K · sold 1×. On the 1000 block of W Orleans St.
Property summary
Assessment$18KCity assessed value
Last sale$215KRecorded 2025
Est. taxes$246/yearAnnual city record
Permits8Shown in this report
Violations1Open L&I cases
What stands out
From the public recordAssessment and sale price disagree hard
Why it mattersAssessed at $18K, but it traded for $215,000 in 2025 — a 12.2× gap. Could be a non-market deed the record doesn't label, or an assessment that hasn't caught up.
View supporting records →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 own it
1 open violation: the clock matters
L&I appeals must be filed within 30 days — just 6 days if a property is designated UNSAFE or IMMINENTLY DANGEROUS. Left unresolved, the city can do the work itself, bill the owner (routinely $50,000+ on a rowhouse), lien the property, and add court fines of $300+/day.
$6,434 in back taxes on record
Interest and penalties keep compounding until a Revenue payment agreement is in place, and a lien is already filed — an owner-occupant agreement also stops the sheriff-sale track.
Construction next door (1023 W Orleans St, 2025)
Excavation deeper than 5 feet, or within 10 feet of an adjacent structure, legally requires the developer to survey neighboring homes first and give owners 10 days' written notice. Insist on the pre-construction survey — it is your evidence if cracks appear.
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 this house's public records and the city's rules as of 2026 (abatement ordinance, Homestead, rental licensing, lead certification, L&I process, excavation protections). Informational only — not legal, tax, or investment advice.
The investment read
How this house 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
$18K
Price / sq ft
—
block $93 ·
Appreciation
+1000%
+24%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$18K
+24%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$246
1.4% effective
Gross yield
—
Times sold
1
licensed rental
Value vs. the block, over time — sales, permits & L&I events marked on the line
This houseBlock median & rangeSaleL&I violationPermit
The paper trail
New constructionbuilt new under a 2025 permit, sold for $215K in 2025.
- 2011 2 L&I violationsL&I
- 2025 $215KSoldL&I violationL&INew ConstructionPermitExcavationPermitNew Construction or AdditionsPermitNew Construction or AdditionsPermitNew Construction or AdditionsPermitNew ConstructionPermit
- 2026 New ConstructionPermitNew ConstructionPermitL&I violationL&I
Flags: active rental license · 1 open L&I violation · $6K back taxes (1998–2015, $2K of it interest & penalties, lien filed). Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).
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.
Assessment and sale price disagree hard
Assessed at $18K, but it traded for $215,000 in 2025 — a 12.2× gap. Could be a non-market deed the record doesn't label, or an assessment that hasn't caught up.
Run the numbers
What owning 1024 W Orleans St takes, at your price and your rate. Taxes are this house's actual bill from the city record; rent starts at the area median. Assessed value is not an asking price — set the price slider to the real one.
When this house last sold (2025) a 30-year mortgage ran about 6.6% — 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 from this parcel's record.
Block context
1024 W Orleans St sits on the 1000 block of W Orleans St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 1022 W Orleans St · 1026 W Orleans 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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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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