House report

164 Meehan Ave

3 stories · 1,869 sqft · RSA3 · built 1925

Absentee individual · assessed $171K (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $188K · sold 2×. On the 100 block of Meehan Ave.

Property summary

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Street view of 164 Meehan Ave
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The estimate, live balance, and back-tax record are different.

BlockReport can calculate the annual tax from the City’s taxable assessment. Payments, credits, interest, and a current amount due live separately in Philadelphia Tax Center.

Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$2,395/year

2026 taxable assessment $171,100 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $188,100; 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 222083700
Open Philadelphia Tax Center →Choose “View period balance” to see the tax year and any credit, interest, or delinquency.
Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources Record found

The June 2022 delinquency snapshot was not verifiably available in this cached report. No conclusion about a match—or today’s balance—can be drawn from that absence.

A separate historical parcel ledger ending in 2016 records $2,973.46 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.

2004$75.16 total · $0.00 principal · $0.00 interest · $0.00 penalty2012$515.18 total · $289.82 principal · $108.68 interest · $20.29 penalty2016$2,383.12 total · $2,108.80 principal · $31.64 interest · $21.09 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 record

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.

Dated record flagRecent transition activity

The property has an unusually active paper trail worth monitoring for the next permit, inspection, deed, or listing.

Evidence: 5 permit events since 2023

Limit: Record activity alone does not establish that a sale or redevelopment is planned.

Transparent record rules, not a score or forecast. Each flag is a prompt to verify the cited records, 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 1925: 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.

Zoned RSA3: one household by right

Single-family attached. Converting to a duplex or apartments needs a use variance the zoning board rarely grants — Pennsylvania courts require a physical hardship of the lot itself, and economics alone do not qualify.

If you own it

$2,973 in the historical tax ledger through 2016

Historical context only, not a current payoff figure; that ledger also contains a lien entry. Verify today's balance and lien status directly with Philadelphia Revenue before relying on it.

If you’re the landlord

Lead certificate is not optional

Built 1925: 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 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: 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
$171,100
2026 billed-year assessment · 2027: $188,100 · built 1925
Price / sq ft
$101
block $177 · below block
Appreciation
+44%
+3%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$188K
+3%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax bill / yr
$2,395
1.27% effective
Jun 2022 tax snapshot
Gross yield
13.8%
≈$2K/mo rent
Times sold
2
latest deed has shared-name parties

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

$0$250K$500K2020: Minor Demolition2021: Demolished 2021: New construction, addition, GFA change 2021: Appeal granted2022: New Construction2024: New Construction or Additions 2024: New Construction or Additions 2024: New Construction or Additions 2024: New Construction 2024: New Construction2025: L&I violation 2025: L&I: 1 failed, 1 passed$188K2016201820202022202420262027
This houseBlock median & rangeTeardownL&I violationPermit
Highlight

The paper trail

demolished in 2021 and rebuilt (2020).

  1. 2020 Minor DemolitionPermit
  2. 2021 DemolishedTeardownNew construction, addition, GFA changePermitAppeal grantedZoning
  3. 2022 New ConstructionPermit
  4. 2024 New Construction or AdditionsPermitNew Construction or AdditionsPermitNew Construction or AdditionsPermitNew ConstructionPermitNew ConstructionPermit
  5. 2025 L&I violationL&IL&I: 1 failed, 1 passedL&I visit

Every dated deed, permit, inspection, license, violation, certification, and appeal—together.

The timeline combines the report’s transfer history with every successfully fetched L&I and zoning row. A date or status is the City’s filed record, not a statement that the condition remains current; use the official file for live detail.

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Recorded owner
Pkh Ltd
L&I district
OPA account
222083700

What this record suggests

The timeline preserves the dated City rows that matched this parcel. It is a sequence to verify, not a conclusion about present condition.

  1. AppealZBA Permit Denial - Variance

    Appeal ZP-2020-008553 · Completed · Granted

    PERMIT FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE-STORY, SEMI-DETACHED BUILDING ON AN EXISTING FOUNDATION WITH AN ACCESSORY SURFACE PARKING SPACE. FOR USE AS SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSEHOLD LIVING.

How Philadelphia’s property system works

These explainers are free because the record only helps if you know what it can—and cannot—prove. Use the linked City guidance for the controlling rule.

Permits and inspections

A permit is the City’s authorization and review pathway for construction or repair work. No fetched permit is not proof that no work ever happened.

L&I inspections are scheduled at defined stages; final inspection and required certifications are separate steps in closing out applicable work.

How construction and repair permits work ↗See City inspection stages by permit type ↗
Assessments and taxes

The OPA assessment is the City’s value on the tax roll—not an asking price, appraisal, or live account balance. The taxable assessment can differ from the full assessment because the City roll records exemptions or other treatment; the report keeps those fields separate.

Your annual estimate uses the taxable assessment. Payments, credits, interest, and the amount due are maintained separately in Tax Center.

How the Office of Property Assessment works ↗Philadelphia property-tax guidance ↗
Violations, cases, and status

L&I enforcement records can include warnings, notices, orders, inspections, and later resolution activity. A closed visit is still a historical record; it is not a missing event.

How L&I code enforcement works ↗City violation and order types ↗

Flags: active rental license · historical tax ledger through 2016 recorded $3K with a lien entry · 1 zoning/board appeal on record · latest deed has shared-name parties — relationship unverified. Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

The property, on paper

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

Stories
3
Interior
1,869 sqft
livable area
Lot
2,486 sqft
Basement
Full
city code D
Heat
Undetermined
city code H
Central air
No
Exterior condition
Above average
city code 3
Interior condition
Average
city code 4
Quality grade
C
assessor's grade
Zoning
RSA3
city zoning code
Zoning appeals
1
Completed · Granted · 2021

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

Run the numbers

What owning 164 Meehan 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 the area median. Assessed value is not an asking price — set the price slider to the real one.

$188K
20%
6.875%
$2K/mo

When this house last sold (2018) a 30-year mortgage ran about 4.54% — 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, $1,400/yr insurance, 1% of price/yr maintenance; taxes use this parcel's taxable assessment, not a live Tax Center balance.

Block context

164 Meehan Ave sits on the 100 block of Meehan Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 160 Meehan Ave  ·  168 Meehan Ave

Where this comes from

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 9, 2026, 10:23 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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