The Block Report

Multi-family report

1513 Fairmount Ave

8 bd · 3 ba · 3 stories · 3,030 sqft · RM1 · built 1920

Investor / LLC · assessed $688K · 3 licensed units · sold 1×. On the 1500 block of Fairmount Ave.

Street view of 1513 Fairmount Ave
From the street — imagery © Google
From above — imagery © Esri, Maxar

Property summary

Assessment$688KCity assessed value Last sale$693KRecorded 2020 Est. annual tax$10K/yearAssessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits—Record unavailable ViolationsNone openNo open L&I cases

What stands out

From the public record

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.

watch signalAssessment/permit mismatch

The assessment jumped 27% in 2023, but no matching permit appears in the property timeline.

Evidence: assessment moved from $545,000 to $693,000 · no permit shown in 2022-2024

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.

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’re buying

Built 1920: lead rules apply

Federal law requires a lead-paint disclosure at sale for any pre-1978 home. If it will be rented, Philadelphia also requires a lead-safe or lead-free certificate before a rental license can issue.

If you’re the landlord

Lead certificate is not optional

Built 1920: every rental unit needs a lead-safe or lead-free certificate on file with the City. Without one: fines up to $2,000/day per unit, tenants may withhold rent, courts can order rent refunded — and no eviction will stand.

Licensed rental — keep it that way

Renewal requires city tax clearance and zero open L&I violations on the property. A lapsed license suspends the right to collect rent or evict.

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.

Who's behind it

U&N Unlimited LLC · corporate / LLC owner

• Owns 3 properties across Philadelphia under this name, assessed at $1.2M combined
• Tax bills mail to 20 Terry Drive, Newtown PA, 18940 — outside Philadelphia
• Holds an active rental license for this address

PA corporate registry ↗OpenCorporates ↗City record ↗

The investment read

How this building 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
$688K
built 1920
Price / sq ft
$227
block $272 · below block
Appreciation
+97%
+6%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$690K
+6%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$10K
1.4% effective
Jun 2022 tax snapshot
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Gross yield
2%
≈$1K/mo rent
Times sold
1
licensed rental

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

$0$500K$1.0M$688K201620222027
This houseBlock median & range

Flags: active rental license. Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

The house, on paper

The city assessor's field record — the physical spec sheet behind the assessed number.

Bedrooms
8
Bathrooms
3
Stories
3
Interior
3,030 sqft
livable area
Lot
1,669 sqft
Basement
Full
city code D
Heat
Undetermined
city code H
Exterior condition
Average
city code 4
Interior condition
Average
city code 4
Quality grade
B-
assessor's grade
Zoning
RM1
city zoning code

OPA field-assessment attributes. Condition and grade are the assessor's codes, not an inspection.

Run the numbers

What owning 1513 Fairmount Ave takes, at your price and your rate. Taxes start with an annual estimate from the City’s taxable assessment, not a current bill or balance; rent starts at 3 licensed units × ~85% of the area's median unit rent — the whole building's income, not one unit's. Assessed value is not an asking price — set the price slider to the real one.

$688K
20%
6.875%
$3K/mo

When this house last sold (2020) a 30-year mortgage ran about 3.1% — Freddie Mac's average that year.

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, $2,100/yr insurance, 1% of price/yr maintenance; taxes from this parcel's record.

Block context

1513 Fairmount Ave sits on the 1500 block of Fairmount Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

See the whole block →

Next door: 1511 Fairmount Ave  ·  1515-21 Fairmount Ave

Where this comes from

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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