Improved
Why it mattersOwner pulled a major alteration permit in 2008.
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120 Arch St
8,500 sqft · CMX3 · built 1900
Commercial · Michael Kurland · assessed $2.2M. On the 100 block of Arch St.
Property summary
Assessment$2.2MCity assessed value
Last sale$235KRecorded 1995
Est. annual tax$31K/yearAssessment × 1.3998%
Tax delinquencyNo 2022 matchNot proof account is current
Permits1Shown 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.
View supporting records →What the record is signaling
Early patterns mined across this property's dated public records. Each flag shows what triggered it and where the inference stops.
Assessment/permit mismatch
The assessment jumped 100% in 2027, but no matching permit appears in the property timeline.
Evidence: assessment moved from $1,107,000 to $2,212,700 · no permit shown in 2026-2028
Limit: Not proof of unpermitted work; reassessment, corrected data, or a permit under another parcel can also explain it.
Transparent record rules, not a machine-learning forecast. A signal is a prompt to verify the cited record, not a prediction or allegation.
Commercial propertyProperty report
This is a commercial, 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
Commercial
Str/Off 4 Sty Masonry
Owner
Kurland Michael
Tax standing
Assessed $2.2M
On the tax roll
$ / sq ft
$260
above the $130 median for 12,035 commercial parcels citywide
Corridor
Old City
city commercial corridor
Assessed value
$2.2M
City market value
Interior area
8,500 sqft
Lot size
2,255 sqft
Built
1900
Zoning
CMX3
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
120 Arch St sits on the 100 block of Arch St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 122-24 Arch St · 116-18 Arch 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
- Imagery — Street photo © Google · Aerial © Esri, Maxar
Methodology & freshness
Available City datasets are queried from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com), then reports are cached and refreshed on a rolling schedule. Source dates vary: the parcel-level tax-delinquency snapshot is June 2022 and the separate detailed tax ledger ends in 2016, so neither establishes today’s balance. Other dossiers re-pull on view once stale, 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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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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