2026 taxable assessment $35,000 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.
OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $22,100; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.
Land report
1522 W Lehigh Ave
Vacant lot · P J Sampathachar · assessed $35K (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $22K. On the 1500 block of W Lehigh Ave.
Property summary
Assessment$35,0002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $22,100
Last sale$20KRecorded 1991
Est. tax bill$490/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998%
Tax delinquency$9KCity snapshot · Jun 2022
Permits0Dated events in report
Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records
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OPA 1613233002026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.
Historical delinquency sources Record found
$9,137.63 was recorded for this parcel in Philadelphia's June 2022 delinquency snapshot. That amount may have been paid, reduced, or increased since; it is not a current payoff figure.
A separate historical parcel ledger ending in 2016 records $5,639.54 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.
1996$575.29 total · $163.87 principal · $292.51 interest · $11.47 penalty1997$625.40 total · $182.47 principal · $314.76 interest · $12.77 penalty1998$606.02 total · $182.47 principal · $298.34 interest · $12.77 penalty1999$586.65 total · $182.47 principal · $281.92 interest · $12.77 penalty2000$567.27 total · $182.47 principal · $265.50 interest · $12.77 penalty2001$547.89 total · $182.47 principal · $249.07 interest · $12.77 penalty2002$528.51 total · $182.47 principal · $232.65 interest · $12.77 penalty2003$509.13 total · $182.47 principal · $216.23 interest · $12.77 penalty2004$101.29 total · $30.41 principal · $33.30 interest · $2.13 penalty2005$98.06 total · $30.41 principal · $30.56 interest · $2.13 penalty2006$94.84 total · $30.41 principal · $27.83 interest · $2.13 penalty2007$91.60 total · $30.41 principal · $25.09 interest · $2.13 penalty2008$88.37 total · $30.41 principal · $22.35 interest · $2.13 penalty2009$85.15 total · $30.41 principal · $19.62 interest · $2.13 penalty2010$81.92 total · $30.41 principal · $16.88 interest · $2.13 penalty2011$84.13 total · $33.42 principal · $15.54 interest · $2.34 penalty2012$82.79 total · $34.71 principal · $13.02 interest · $2.43 penalty2013$81.10 total · $35.96 principal · $10.25 interest · $2.52 penalty2014$75.90 total · $50.85 principal · $9.91 interest · $3.56 penalty2015$70.51 total · $50.85 principal · $5.34 interest · $3.56 penalty2016$57.72 total · $53.12 principal · $0.80 interest · $0.53 penalty
For a purchase, refinance, or closing, request the City’s official Property Payoff statement in Tax Center under “More options.”
What stands out
From the public recordImproved
Why it mattersBought for $10K in 2009.
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Property Sales Certification
The seller must obtain Philadelphia’s certificate showing the base zoning, last use in the zoning record, and open violations. The City warns that it does not prove Building Code occupancy or show zoning overlays.
Next: Obtain the fresh certificate and compare it with the CO, permits, and Atlas overlays.
Official guidance ↗Date-effective City Property Payoff
The Tax Center Property Payoff covers Real Estate Tax, Commercial Trash, and L&I abatement-work invoices. Philadelphia says it does not include business-tax debts or liens, water and sewer charges, or fines for code violations.
Next: Request the City statement effective through settlement; read every period and invoice.
Official guidance ↗Professional title and water-lien searches
OPA ownership, deed summaries, and a zero tax balance are not clear title. Mortgages, judgments, municipal claims, water liens, easements, heirs, and other encumbrances require separate searches.
Next: Use a Pennsylvania lawyer/title company and obtain owner’s title insurance; order the separate water search/payoff.
Official guidance ↗Separate water-lien guidance ↗Informational only—not a legal opinion, title report, code inspection, tax payoff, or substitute for a Pennsylvania lawyer, title company, inspector, or tax professional.
Records to verify together
Rule-based groupings across this property's dated public records. Each flag shows the records that belong in the same verification step and where the inference stops.
Records to verify together
More than one separately dated public record deserves a current-status check.
Evidence: $9,138 appeared in the City's June 2022 delinquency snapshot · a lien number appears in the historical tax ledger through 2016 · failed L&I inspection activity in 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
Limit: A screening signal, not a foreclosure prediction. Tax entries are historical and must be verified with Philadelphia Revenue.
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Vacant landLand report
An empty lot: no building, just the land and its paper trail. The homeowner tools don't apply; the deed history, owner and zoning are below, and the analyst can trace what the owner holds citywide.
$9K · Jun 2022 delinquency snapshot historical lien entry · through 2016
What it is
Vacant lot
Vacant Land Reside < Acre
Owner
Sampathachar P J
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $35K
Taxable assessment on the roll
Assessed value
$35,000
2026 OPA · 2027: $22,100
Lot size
1,016 sqft
Zoning
RSA5
Block context
1522 W Lehigh Ave sits on the 1500 block of W Lehigh Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 1520 W Lehigh Ave · 1524 W Lehigh Ave
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, 9:24 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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