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1606 S 2nd St

4 bd · 1 ba · 1 story · 1,800 sqft · RM1 · built 1915

Owner-occupied · assessed $343K (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $359K. On the 1600 block of S 2nd St.

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Property summary

Assessment$343,0002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $359,200 Last sale$74KRecorded 1991 Est. tax bill$1,697/year2026 taxable assessment · full-value scenario $4,801/year · basis and term unverified Tax delinquencyNo 2022 matchNot proof account is current Permits0Every fetched City permit Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records

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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$1,697/year

2026 taxable assessment $121,200 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $359,200; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

Official current account balanceCheck live

A Tax Center balance is net of bills, payments, credits, interest, and adjustments. A credit—or an amount due—is not automatically “back taxes.”

OPA 011206400
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Exemption classificationPartial assessment exemption — basis unverified

2026 OPA taxes $121,200 of $343,000 assessed. The assessment fields alone do not identify a program, approval date, expiration, or buyer eligibility.

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Full-assessment scenario$4,801/year

Applying the same rate to the billed-year full assessment. OPA's numeric split does not say when or whether the current treatment changes.

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Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion

This parcel did not match the June 2022 delinquency snapshot. That absence does not confirm the account is current today.

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What stands out

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What to do with this

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If you’re buying

Verify the current tax bill and exemption

The 2026 taxable assessment implies about $1,697/yr, while applying the same rate to the full assessment would imply about $4,801/yr — $3,104/yr more. OPA's assessment split does not establish the exemption program, expiration, or buyer eligibility. Verify the basis and live bill with OPA and Revenue.

Built 1915: 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 own it

Verify which assessment relief applies

OPA shows a material assessment exemption, but this record does not identify its legal basis or transfer treatment. Ask OPA for the approval history; if the current treatment ends, an eligible owner-occupant may need to apply separately for Homestead relief.

Derived from the fetched property records and linked City guidance as of 2026. Assessment treatment is not a substitute for an exemption approval, live balance, title report, license, occupancy certificate, or inspection. Informational only — not legal, tax, or investment advice.

The investment read

How this house has moved and where it's pointed: every fetched annual City assessment, charted against its block and ZIP; appreciation includes the full-period compound rate and the latest year-over-year change. The 5-year figure simply extends that historical pace. Yield estimates rent-vs-price from area rents. Ask the record to dig into any number.

Assessed value
$343,000
2026 billed-year assessment · 2027: $359,200 · built 1915
Price / sq ft
$200
block $206 · in line w/ block
Appreciation
+76%
+5%/yr since 2016 · 2027 +5% vs 2026
In 5 years (~2032)
~$464K
+5%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax bill / yr
$1,697
0.47% effective, reduced taxable assessment
Jun 2022 tax snapshot
No match
not proof the account is current
Gross yield
7.1%
≈$2K/mo rent
Times sold
0

Assessment vs. the block and ZIP · every dated City record marked on the line

$0$500K$1.0MZIP 19148 median$359K2015201720192021202320252027
Property assessmentBlock median & rangeZIP 19148 medianAssessment

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What this record suggests

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Flags: material assessment exemption — legal basis and term unverified. Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

The assessment exemption gap

OPA's 2026 taxable assessment implies about $1,697/year. Applying the same 1.3998% rate to the full assessed value would imply ~$4,801/year — $3,104/year more. That is a scenario, not a forecast: the assessment split alone does not identify the exemption program, approval date, expiration, transfer treatment, or live Tax Center balance.

2016: ~$1,697/yr2017: ~$1,697/yr2018: ~$1,697/yr2019: ~$1,697/yr2020: ~$1,697/yr2021: ~$1,697/yr2022: ~$1,697/yr2023: ~$1,697/yr2024: ~$1,697/yr2025: ~$1,697/yr2026: ~$1,697/yr20162026
2026~$1,697/yrestimated from assessment

2026: ($343,000 assessed − $221,768 exempt) × 1.3998% ≈ $1,697/yr full-assessment scenario: $343,000 × 1.3998% ≈ $4,801/yr The OPA amount does not prove a ten-year abatement or any other specific program. Obtain the approval history and verify the current Tax Center account; a buyer should not assume the seller's relief transfers or restarts.

The property, on paper

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

Bedrooms
4
Bathrooms
1
Stories
1
Interior
1,800 sqft
livable area
Lot
1,111 sqft
Basement
Full
city code D
Heat
Undetermined
city code H
Central air
No
Exterior condition
Average
city code 4
Interior condition
Average
city code 4
Quality grade
C
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 1606 S 2nd 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.

$359K
20%
6.875%
$2K/mo

When this house last sold (1991) a 30-year mortgage ran about 9.25% — 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 use this parcel's taxable assessment with an optional full-assessment stress test, not a live Tax Center balance.

Block context

1606 S 2nd St sits on the 1600 block of S 2nd St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 1604 S 2nd St  ·  1608 S 2nd St

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 10, 2026, 1:48 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. For this property: Permits: queried · Violations: queried · Investigations: queried · Appeals: queried · Licenses: queried · Building certifications: queried. “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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