Commercial property report

1039 Chestnut St

5,776 sqft · CMX5 · built 1900

Store · Individual owner on record · assessed $1.4M. On the 1000 block of Chestnut St.

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Property summary

Assessment$1,443,700City assessed value Last sale—No sale value available Est. tax bill—Record unavailable Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits8Dated events in report Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records

Report assembled Jul 9, 2026 “Open” reflects records available then historical records keep their source dates estimates are labeled

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OPA 882494500

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Exemption classificationExemption status unavailable

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Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion

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What stands out

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Finding

Permit on record

Record summary

Addition and/or Alterations permit recorded in 2026.

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Finding

"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder

Record summary

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.

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Commercial propertyProperty report

This is a store, recorded under the city's commercial 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

Store

Store 4 Sty Masonry

Owner

Individual owner on record

Individual name redacted

OPA tax treatment

Assessed $1.4M

Taxable assessment on the roll

$ / sq ft

$250

above the $130 median for 12,035 commercial parcels citywide

Corridor

Market East

city commercial corridor

Assessed value

$1,443,700

Latest OPA

Interior area

5,776 sqft

Lot size

1,444 sqft

Built

1900

Zoning

CMX5

Records behind the chart

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Browse 1 dated record deeds, permits, inspections, licenses, violations, certifications & appeals

Jul 16, 2019
AppealBuilding standards appeal
Appeal 37825 · CLOSED · APPROVED
ON 06/12/2019, THE DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND INSPECTIONS ISSUED A NOTICE OF REFUSAL FOR APPLICATION #966241.

What this record suggests

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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

1039 Chestnut St sits on the 1000 block of Chestnut St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 1035 Chestnut St · 1031-33 Chestnut 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
Tax delinquency snapshot · June 2022 — Real Estate Tax Delinquencies, Dept. of Revenue
Historical tax ledger & liens · through 2016 — Real Estate Tax Balances, Dept. of Revenue
Current property-tax balance — Verify with Philadelphia 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

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 9, 2026, 4:48 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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About this data & fine print

Answers are generated by an AI agent querying available City of Philadelphia open data at the moment you ask: OPA property assessments, Recorder of Deeds transfer records, L&I permits, violations & licenses, dated Dept. of Revenue tax records, Zoning Board appeals, Police incident reports, Philly311 requests, and School District of Philadelphia catchment and school data. When you explicitly request a web check—or ask about a current listing or recent news—the agent can also run a cited public-web search; those claims are labeled separately from City records.

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Property-level tax data is historical: the delinquency snapshot is dated June 2022 and the separate detailed ledger ends in 2016. Neither shows what is owed today; verify a current balance with Philadelphia Revenue.

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AI-generated content; informational purposes only. Answers are generated by artificial intelligence, may contain errors or omissions, are not reviewed by a person before delivery, and are not statements of fact about any person or property. Nothing here constitutes legal, tax, accounting, financial, investment, appraisal, or real-estate brokerage advice. This tool is not a consumer report under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., and may not be used to determine any individual's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or tenancy, or any other FCRA-covered purpose.

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