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1392 W Luzerne St

Vacant · assessed $27K. On the 1300 block of W Luzerne St.

Street view of 1392 W Luzerne St
From the street — imagery © Google
From above — imagery © Esri, Maxar

Property summary

Assessment$27KCity assessed value Last sale$5KRecorded 2018 Est. taxes$378/yearAnnual city record Permits1Shown in this report Violations3Open L&I cases

What stands out

From the public record

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

3 open violations: 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.

$19,904 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.

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
$27K
Price / sq ft
—
block $68 ·
Appreciation
-53%
-7%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$27K
-7%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$378
1.4% effective
Gross yield
—
Times sold
0

Value vs. the block, over time — sales, permits & L&I events marked on the line

$0$100K$200K2017: 2 L&I violations2018: Demolition 2018: Demolished 2018: 2 L&I violations incl EXTERIOR STRUCT UNSAFE COND 72022: 3 L&I violations2024: L&I violation$27K201620222027
This houseBlock median & rangeTeardownL&I violation

The paper trail

Improved

Owner pulled a demolition permit in 2018.

  1. 2017 2 L&I violationsL&I
  2. 2018 DemolitionPermitDemolishedTeardown2 L&I violations incl EXTERIOR STRUCT UNSAFE COND 7L&I
  3. 2022 3 L&I violationsL&I
  4. 2024 L&I violationL&I

Flags: 3 open L&I violations · $20K back taxes (1991–2016, $7K of it interest & penalties, lien filed). Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

Run the numbers

What owning 1392 W Luzerne 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.

$27K
20%
6.875%
$700/mo
Mortgage
—
P&I · 30-yr fixed
All-in monthly
—
+ taxes & insurance
Cash to close
—
down + ~4% costs
Cash flow
—
rent − all costs · /mo
Cap rate
—
NOI ÷ price
Cash-on-cash
—
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

1392 W Luzerne St sits on the 1300 block of W Luzerne St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 1394 W Luzerne St  ·  1318-24 W Luzerne St

Where this comes from

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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