Commercial property report

1312 Chestnut St

57,720 sqft · CMX5 · built 1920

Commercial · Church Of Scientology Of · assessed $8.4M (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $8.4M. On the 1300 block of Chestnut St.

Property summary

Assessment$8,385,8002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $8,385,800 Last sale—No sale value available Est. tax bill$117,384/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits1Dated events in report Violations3 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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Property tax

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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$117,384/year

2026 taxable assessment $8,385,800 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $8,385,800; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion

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What stands out

From the public record

Finding

Improved

Why it matters

Owner pulled a change of use permit in 2020.

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The property record, over time

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Assessment history · all dated City records marked on the line

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3 open violations

What it is

Commercial

Off Bld Com No Gar Mason

Owner

Church Of Scientology Of

OPA tax treatment

Assessed $8.4M

Taxable assessment on the roll

$ / sq ft

$145

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

Corridor

Market East

city commercial corridor

Assessed value

$8,385,800

2026 OPA · 2027: $8,385,800

Interior area

57,720 sqft

Lot size

6,032 sqft

Built

1920

Zoning

CMX5

Block context

1312 Chestnut St sits on the 1300 block of Chestnut St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 1308-10 Chestnut St · 1318-24 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, 4:46 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.

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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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