Traded
Why it mattersTraded 2×: $120K in 2008 → $240K in 2018 (+100%).
View supporting records →House report
1604 Poplar St
Vacant · assessed $382K · sold 2×. On the 1600 block of Poplar St.
Property summary
Assessment$382KCity assessed value
Last sale$240KRecorded 2018
Est. annual tax$5K/yearAssessment × 1.3998%
Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable
Permits0Shown in this report
ViolationsNone openNo open L&I cases
What stands out
From the public recordNo interior square footage on file
Why it mattersThe record carries a $382K assessment but no livable area — the number square footage math is normally built on. Per-square-foot comparisons for this property aren't possible from the public record.
View supporting records →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.
Assessment/permit mismatch
The assessment jumped 57% in 2025, but no matching permit appears in the property timeline.
Evidence: assessment moved from $197,100 to $310,000 · no permit shown in 2024-2026
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.
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
$382K
Price / sq ft
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block $302 ·
Appreciation
+284%
+13%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$384K
+13%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$5K
1.4% effective
Jun 2022 tax snapshot
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Gross yield
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Times sold
2
kept in the family
Value vs. the block, over time — sales, permits & L&I events marked on the line
This houseBlock median & rangeSalePermit
The paper trail
TradedTraded 2×: $120K in 2008 → $240K in 2018 (+100%).
- 2008 $120KSold
- 2018 $240KSold
Flags: long-held within one family. Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).
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.
No interior square footage on file
The record carries a $382K assessment but no livable area — the number square footage math is normally built on. Per-square-foot comparisons for this property aren't possible from the public record.
Run the numbers
What owning 1604 Poplar St 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 the area median. Assessed value is not an asking price — set the price slider to the real one.
When this house last sold (2018) a 30-year mortgage ran about 4.54% — Freddie Mac's average that year.
Mortgage
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P&I · 30-yr fixed
All-in monthly
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+ taxes & insurance
Cash to close
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down + ~4% costs
Cash flow
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rent − all costs · /mo
Cap rate
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NOI ÷ price
Cash-on-cash
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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
1604 Poplar St sits on the 1600 block of Poplar St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 1602 Poplar St · 1606 Poplar 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
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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On the way down: the story of the house, its paper trail drawn on the value chart, and run-the-numbers, a calculator seeded with an assessment-based annual tax estimate.
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