2026 taxable assessment $4,333,000 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.
OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $4,333,000; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.
Apartment building report
1238 Buttonwood St
6 stories · 20,844 sqft · RMX3 · built 2024
Apartments · Buttonwood Estate LLC · assessed $4.3M (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $4.3M. On the 1200 block of Buttonwood St.
Property summary
Assessment$4,333,0002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $4,333,000
Last sale$700KRecorded 2023
Est. tax bill$60,653/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998%
Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable
Permits6Dated events in report
Violations3 openNo historical match in fetched records
“Open” reflects records available then historical records keep their source dates estimates are labeled
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OPA 8814336022026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.
Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion
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What stands out
From the public recordNew construction
Why it mattersBought for $700K in 2023, built new under a 2022 permit.
View supporting records →Assessment and sale price disagree hard
Why it mattersAssessed at $4.3M, but it traded for $700,000 in 2023 — a 6.2× gap. Could be a non-market deed the record doesn't label, or an assessment that hasn't caught up.
View supporting records →The property record, over time
Every dated deed, permit, inspection, license, violation, certification, and appeal is placed on the City’s annual assessment line. Select a point to read what happened; the line is an assessment history—not a sale-price chart or appraisal. OPA has also published a 2027 assessment of $4,333,000; it is not yet the billed-year tax basis.
Assessment history · all dated City records marked on the line
- OPA assessment · 2020$659K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2021$659K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2022$659K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2023$659K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2024$2.0M assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2025$4.3M assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2026$4.3M assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2027$4.3M assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- Land buy · 2023Land record $700KA land-record event associated with this parcel. Review the recorded instrument to determine whether it reflects a conveyance, parcel change, or another filing.How to read the recorded document ↗
- Appeal · 2023-04-17BBS Permit DenialA challenge or request reviewed through a City appeals process. Filing an appeal does not show who prevailed; read the decision, conditions, and related permit or violation.How Philadelphia L&I appeals work ↗
Assessment lineAssessmentLand buyAppeal
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Every dated record2 events · exact dates, newest first
- AppealBBS Permit Denial
- Land buyLand record $700K
Apartment buildingBuilding report
This is a apartments, 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.
3 open violations
What it is
Apartments
Pkg Lot Non Commercial
Owner
Buttonwood Estate LLC
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $4.3M
Taxable assessment on the roll
$ / sq ft
$208
above the $151 median for 3,983 apartments parcels citywide
Corridor
Callowhill East
city commercial corridor
Assessed value
$4,333,000
2026 OPA · 2027: $4,333,000
Interior area
20,844 sqft
Lot size
3,618 sqft
Stories
6
Built
2024
Zoning
RMX3
Records behind the chart
Browse the source ledger
The chart above is the primary timeline. This drawer preserves every underlying dated row and its filed status for source-level review.
Browse 2 dated records deeds, permits, inspections, licenses, violations, certifications & appeals
- AppealBBS Permit Denial
Appeal CP-2021-006862 · Completed · Approved
FOR THE AMENDMENT OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PERMIT CP-2021-006862 TO DOCUMENT CHANGE IN ALLEYWAY CONFGURATION FOR EMERGENCY ESCAPE AND RESCUE FOR ADJACENT PROPERTIES. ORIGINAL PERMIT APPROVED FOR THE ERECTION OF AN ATTACHED SIX STORY BUILDING
- Land recordLand record
2023
What this record suggests
3 violations are still marked open in the assembled record. The date and status belong in a current L&I check before relying on them.
Who's behind it
Buttonwood Estate LLC · corporate / LLC owner
• Tax bills mail to 429 N 11th St 1st FL, Philadelphia PA, 19123
• The last transfer was a nominal/family deed, not an open-market sale
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 $4.3M, but it traded for $700,000 in 2023 — a 6.2× gap. Could be a non-market deed the record doesn't label, or an assessment that hasn't caught up.
Block context
1238 Buttonwood St sits on the 1200 block of Buttonwood St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 1236 Buttonwood St · 1234 Buttonwood 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
This report was assembled Jul 9, 2026, 3:57 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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