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40-42 N 3rd St

Commercial · Individual owner on record · assessed $1.9M (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $1.9M. On the 0 block of N 3rd St.

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Property summary

Assessment$1,923,8002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $1,940,400 Last sale—No sale value available Est. tax bill$26,929/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency$7KCity snapshot · Jun 2022 Permits0Every fetched City permit Violations0 open2 historical across 1 case

“Open” reflects records available then historical records keep their source dates estimates are labeled

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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$26,929/year

2026 taxable assessment $1,923,800 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $1,940,400; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

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OPA 885789720
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources Record found

$7,395.44 was recorded for this parcel in Philadelphia's June 2022 delinquency snapshot for 2019–2021. That amount may have been paid, reduced, or increased since; it is not a current payoff figure.

$5,169.30 principal$651.22 interest$681.87 penalty$893.05 other charges
2years recorded 2019–2021tax periods 2022-02-03last payment in snapshot Yesactionable flag Nopayment agreement Nobankruptcy flag Nosheriff-sale flag Noassessment appeal

The snapshot’s 2022 context used $1,503,400 total assessment, $1,503,400 taxable, and $0 exempt/abated. Those historical fields can differ from today’s OPA exemption status.

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What stands out

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History

Record summary

Inspection failed ×3 (2009); 2 L&I violations (2010); Inspection failed ×2 (2010); Inspection passed (2014); Inspection passed (2018).

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The property record, over time

Every dated deed, permit, inspection, license, violation, certification, and appeal is placed on the City’s annual assessment line. Select a point to read what happened; the line is an assessment history—not a sale-price chart or appraisal. OPA has also published a 2027 assessment of $1,940,400; it is not yet the billed-year tax basis.

Assessment history · all dated City records marked on the line

$0$1.0M$2.0M$1.9M2004200820122016202020242027
Property assessmentAssessmentL&I violationInspectionLicense

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Every dated record10 events · exact dates, newest first
  1. InspectionPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)
  2. InspectionCEASE INSP (likely: cease-operations compliance inspection)
  3. InspectionBC INSP (likely: building-code inspection)
  4. InspectionPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)
  5. L&I violationCAL LO (Commercial Activity License required)
  6. L&I violationOBTAIN LIC INDICATED (Obtain the license identified in the notice)
  7. InspectionPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)
  8. InspectionBP_BLDG
  9. InspectionBP_BLDG
  10. LicensePublic Garage / Parking Lot
Commercial propertyProperty report

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$7K · Jun 2022 delinquency snapshot

What it is
Commercial
Pd Pkg Lot Commercial
Owner
Individual owner on record
Individual name redacted
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $1.9M
Taxable assessment on the roll
Corridor
Old City
city commercial corridor
Assessed value
$1,923,800
2026 OPA · 2027: $1,940,400
Lot size
5,544 sqft
Zoning
CMX3

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The chart above is the primary timeline. This drawer preserves every underlying dated row and its filed status for source-level review.

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Browse 9 dated records deeds, permits, inspections, licenses, violations, certifications & appeals
  1. InvestigationPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)

    Case 152459 · PASSED

    A follow-up before or during enforcement escalation; confirm the case sequence in the City file. The cited inspection visit was marked passed.

  2. InvestigationCEASE INSP (likely: cease-operations compliance inspection)

    Case 245341 · PASSED

    Legacy inspection shorthand; verify whether a cease-operations order existed and its current status. The cited inspection visit was marked passed.

  3. InvestigationBC INSP (likely: building-code inspection)

    Case 245341 · FAILED

    Legacy inspection shorthand; confirm the inspection type and scope in the City case file. The cited inspection visit was marked failed; later rows may show follow-up or resolution.

  4. InvestigationBC INSP (likely: building-code inspection)

    Case 245341 · CLOSED

    Legacy inspection shorthand; confirm the inspection type and scope in the City case file. City marked the record closed; open the case for the closing reason.

  5. InvestigationPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)

    Case 152459 · CLOSED

    A follow-up before or during enforcement escalation; confirm the case sequence in the City file. City marked the record closed; open the case for the closing reason.

  6. ViolationCAL LO (Commercial Activity License required)

    Case 245341 · Violation 1804766 · COMPLIED

    Philadelphia Code §19-2602(1) requires a Commercial Activity License before conducting business in the city. City marked this violation complied with; check the resolution date and live case for what was accepted.

  7. ViolationOBTAIN LIC INDICATED (Obtain the license identified in the notice)

    Case 245341 · Violation 1804767 · COMPLIED

    The shorthand does not identify the license type; open the case notice for that detail. City marked this violation complied with; check the resolution date and live case for what was accepted.

  8. InvestigationPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)

    Case 152459 · FAILED

    A follow-up before or during enforcement escalation; confirm the case sequence in the City file. The cited inspection visit was marked failed; later rows may show follow-up or resolution.

  9. LicensePublic Garage / Parking Lot

    License 286846 · Inactive

    E Z PARKS INC · Expires 2016-12-31 · Inactive 2017-03-01

What this record suggests

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Unavailable when this report assembled: certifications. Unavailable does not mean no record.

Block context

40-42 N 3rd St sits on the 0 block of N 3rd St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 38 N 3rd St  ·  36 N 3rd St

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 10, 2026, 3:28 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. For this property: Permits: queried · Violations: queried · Investigations: queried · Appeals: queried · Licenses: queried · Building certifications: unavailable. “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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