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2901-27 Ellsworth St

Vacant lot · Thermal Philadelphia · assessed $1.3M (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $2.4M. On the 2900 block of Ellsworth St.

Property summary

Assessment$1,306,8002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $2,408,100 Last sale$21KRecorded 2000 Est. tax bill$18,293/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits1Dated events in report Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records

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Street view of 2901-27 Ellsworth St
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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$18,293/year

2026 taxable assessment $1,306,800 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $2,408,100; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

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OPA 885983380
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion

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Dated record flagAssessment/permit mismatch

The assessment jumped 84% in 2027, but no matching permit appears in the property timeline.

Evidence: assessment moved from $1,306,800 to $2,408,100 · no permit shown in 2026-2028

Limit: Not proof of unpermitted work; reassessment, corrected data, or a permit under another parcel can also explain it.

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What it is
Vacant lot
Non Pd Pkg Lot Commercial
Owner
Philadelphia Thermal
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $1.3M
Taxable assessment on the roll
Assessed value
$1,306,800
2026 OPA · 2027: $2,408,100
Lot size
28,331 sqft
Zoning
I2

Block context

2901-27 Ellsworth St sits on the 2900 block of Ellsworth St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 2900 Ellsworth St  ·  2918-22 Ellsworth St

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Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 9, 2026, 6:20 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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