2026 taxable assessment $1,111,100 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.
OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $1,083,100; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.
Commercial property report
270 W Walnut Ln
5 bd · 3 ba · 3 stories · 6,333 sqft · RSD1 · built 1900
Offices · 270 W Walnut Lane LLC · assessed $1.1M (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $1.1M. On the 200 block of W Walnut Ln.
Property summary
Assessment$1,111,1002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $1,083,100
Last sale$345KRecorded 2015
Est. tax bill$15,553/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998%
Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable
Permits8Dated events in report
Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records
“Open” reflects records available then historical records keep their source dates estimates are labeled
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Property tax
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OPA 5930619002026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.
Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion
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What stands out
From the public recordNew construction
Why it mattersbuilt new under a 2016 permit, sold for $345K in 2015.
View supporting records →"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder
Why it mattersPhiladelphia records use 1900 as a stand-in when the real construction year was never documented. Treat the age as unknown, not as 120+ years.
View supporting records →City Property History
Fetched L&I and zoning records
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- Recorded owner
- 270 W Walnut Lane LLC
- Tax mailing address
- 260 W WALNUT LN, PHILADELPHIA PA, 19144
- L&I district
- —
- Building ID (BIN)
- —
- OPA account
- 593061900
Permits0Unavailable
Violation cases0Unavailable
Investigations0Unavailable
Building certifications0Unavailable
Business licenses0Unavailable
Appeals1OPEN · Granted with conditions
PermitsPermit number, issued date, work and City status0
No permits matched this parcel in the fetched City dataset.
Violation cases0 individual violation records; resolved history remains visible0
No violation cases matched this parcel in the fetched City dataset.
InvestigationsEvery inspector visit, including CLOSED outcomes0
No investigations matched this parcel in the fetched City dataset.
Building certificationsInspection result and filed expiration date by L&I building ID0
No building certifications matched this parcel in the fetched City dataset.
Business licensesHistorical and active licenses are both retained0
No business licenses matched this parcel in the fetched City dataset.
AppealsApplication status and decision are separate City fields1
Zoning board appealAppeal 27257
Apr 20, 2016 OPEN Granted with conditions
PERMIT FOR THE CREATION OF ELEVEN (11) TENANT SPACES TOTAL FROM 1ST FLOOR TO 3RD FLOOR FOR USE AS BUSINESS/PROFESSIONAL OFFICE AND/OR ARTIST STUDIOS AND ARTISAN INDUSTRIAL (NO ART GALLERY, NO SALE OF ARTS AND ARTIST DOES NOT LIVE ON PREMISE
City of Philadelphia OPA, L&I and Zoning Board records, shown as filed. A CLOSED investigation is an outcome label, not a missing visit; an appeal's application status and decision may differ.
Legal due diligence
What this record proves—and what it does not.
These checks are triggered by this property’s actual City rows. They identify the controlling document to verify; they do not declare a use legal, a building safe, or title clear.
1 resolve before relying
Resolve before relyingZoning approval is not the occupancy fileAppeal #27257: OPEN · Granted with conditions.
Why it mattersPhiladelphia says a zoning approval or Property Sales Certification can identify a use without proving that it was established under the Building Code. A change of use, unit count, exits, or fire rating can require a Building Permit and Certificate of Occupancy.
Verify nextVerify the lawful use, unit count, associated construction permits, and Certificate of Occupancy with L&I.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗Closing file: checks no public-record summary can replace3 documents/searches to assign before settlement
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.
Assessment/permit mismatch
The assessment jumped 45% in 2023, but no matching permit appears in the property timeline.
Evidence: assessment moved from $618,100 to $899,200 · no permit shown in 2022-2024
Limit: Not proof of unpermitted work; reassessment, corrected data, or a permit under another parcel can also explain it.
Transparent record rules, not a score or forecast. Each flag is a prompt to verify the cited records, not a prediction or allegation.
Commercial propertyProperty report
This is a offices, recorded under the city's offices category. The homeowner tools (rent estimate, homestead playbook) don't apply, so they're hidden. The full record and owner trail are below.
What it is
Offices
Det W/D Gar 3 Sty Stone
Owner
270 W Walnut Lane Llc
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $1.1M
Taxable assessment on the roll
$ / sq ft
$171
above the $143 median for 882 offices parcels citywide
Assessed value
$1,111,100
2026 OPA · 2027: $1,083,100
Interior area
6,333 sqft
Lot size
28,593 sqft
Stories
3
Built
1900
Zoning
RSD1
Who's behind it
270 W Walnut Lane LLC · corporate / LLC owner
• Owns 2 properties across Philadelphia under this name, assessed at $2.1M combined
• Tax bills mail to 260 W Walnut Ln, Philadelphia PA, 19144
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.
"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder
Philadelphia records use 1900 as a stand-in when the real construction year was never documented. Treat the age as unknown, not as 120+ years.
Block context
270 W Walnut Ln sits on the 200 block of W Walnut Ln. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 264 W Walnut Ln · 260 W Walnut Ln
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 10, 2026, 2:49 AM 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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