The Block Report

House report

2044-46 W Madison St

Vacant · assessed $43K. On the 2000 block of W Madison St.

Street view of 2044-46 W Madison St
From the street — imagery © Google
From above — imagery © Esri, Maxar

Property summary

Assessment$43KCity assessed value Last sale$4KRecorded 2017 Est. taxes$605/yearAnnual city record Permits1Shown in this report ViolationsNone openNo open L&I cases

What stands out

From the public record

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 own it

$45,377 in back taxes on record

Interest and penalties keep compounding until a Revenue payment agreement is in place, and a lien is already filed — an owner-occupant agreement also stops the sheriff-sale track.

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.

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
$43K
Price / sq ft
—
block $63 ·
Appreciation
+575%
+19%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$44K
+19%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$605
1.4% effective
Gross yield
—
Times sold
0

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

$0$50K$100K2019: Interior Non-Load-Bearing Wall Demo.2020: L&I violation$43K201620222027
This houseBlock median & rangeL&I violationPermit

The paper trail

Improved

Owner pulled a interior non-load-bearing wall demo. permit in 2019.

  1. 2019 Interior Non-Load-Bearing Wall Demo.Permit
  2. 2020 L&I violationL&I

Flags: $45K back taxes (1997–2016, $21K of it interest & penalties, lien filed). Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

Run the numbers

What owning 2044-46 W Madison St takes, at your price and your rate. Taxes are this house's actual bill from the city record; rent starts at the area median. Assessed value is not an asking price — set the price slider to the real one.

$43K
20%
6.875%
$700/mo
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 from this parcel's record.

Block context

2044-46 W Madison St sits on the 2000 block of W Madison St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 2040-42 W Madison St  ·  2041 W Madison St

Where this comes from

Methodology & freshness

City datasets are fetched live from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and cached briefly. Dossiers re-pull automatically — on view once they're a few weeks old, plus a nightly rolling sweep — 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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