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4020 W Girard Ave

Vacant lot · 4020 And 4022 26 W Girard LLC · assessed $115K (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $115K. On the 4000 block of W Girard Ave.

Property summary

Assessment$114,9002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $114,800 Last sale$170KRecorded 2022 Est. tax bill$1,608/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquencyNo 2022 matchNot proof account is current Permits1Every fetched City permit Violations0 open14 historical across 7 cases

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

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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$1,608/year

2026 taxable assessment $114,900 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $114,800; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

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OPA 885070940
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion

This parcel did not match the June 2022 delinquency snapshot. That absence does not confirm the account is current today.

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What stands out

From the public record
Finding

Improved

Why it matters

Bought for $23K in 2012. Owner pulled a combined lot line relocation and new dev… permit in 2023.

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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 flagPost-purchase work pattern

A recorded purchase followed by 1 permit event matches the early part of a renovate-and-resell sequence.

Evidence: purchase recorded in 2022 · permit activity in 2023

Limit: This does not show that the property is listed or that a sale is planned.

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What it is
Vacant lot
Vacant Land Commer < Acre
Owner
4020 And 4022 26 W Girard LLC
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $115K
Taxable assessment on the roll
Corridor
40th and Girard
city commercial corridor
Assessed value
$114,900
2026 OPA · 2027: $114,800
Lot size
2,297 sqft
Zoning
CMX2

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
4020 And 4022 26 W Girard LLC
L&I district
CENTRAL WEST
OPA account
885070940

What this record suggests

The City file documents 1 permit. 1 carries a completed, issued, or approved status; that documents the filing, not the present quality of the work.

  1. InvestigationL&I investigation

    Case CF-2026-053315 · FAILED

  2. ViolationEXTERIOR AREA WEEDS

    Case CF-2026-053315 · Violation VI-2026-032223 · COMPLIED

  3. ViolationRUBBISH & GARBAGE

    Case CF-2026-053315 · Violation VI-2026-032224 · COMPLIED

  4. InvestigationL&I investigation

    Case CF-2025-055348 · PASSED

  5. ViolationEXTERIOR AREA WEEDS

    Case CF-2025-055348 · Violation VI-2025-041494 · CLOSED

  6. ViolationRUBBISH & GARBAGE

    Case CF-2025-055348 · Violation VI-2025-041495 · CLOSED

  7. InvestigationL&I investigation

    Case CF-2025-055348 · FAILED

  8. PermitCombined Lot Line Relocation and New Dev…

    Permit ZP-2023-000760 · Issued

    FOR THE LOT ADJUSTMENT TO CREATE ONE(1) PARCEL " PARCEL C " FROM TWO(2) OPA ACCOUNTS " (4020 W GIRARD AVE AND 4022 W GIRARD AVE). SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN IN THE APPLICATION.

  9. InvestigationL&I investigation

    Case CF-2022-005561 · PASSED

  10. InvestigationL&I investigation

    Case CF-2022-005561 · FAILED

  11. ViolationNEW USE

    Case CF-2022-005561 · Violation VI-2022-004186 · COMPLIED

  12. ViolationCOMBUSTIBLE STORAGE

    Case CF-2022-005561 · Violation VI-2022-004191 · COMPLIED

  13. Recorded transfer$170K transfer

    2022

  14. ViolationCLIP VIOLATION NOTICE

    Case 616627 · Violation 4543408 · CLOSEDCASE

  15. ViolationEXT A-VACANT LOT CLEAN/MAINTAI

    Case 616627 · Violation 4543409 · CLOSEDCASE

  16. ViolationCLIP VIOLATION NOTICE

    Case 532897 · Violation 3933783 · COMPLIED

  17. ViolationEXT A-VACANT LOT CLEAN/MAINTAI

    Case 532897 · Violation 3933784 · COMPLIED

  18. ViolationCLIP VIOLATION NOTICE

    Case 508207 · Violation 3753948 · COMPLIED

  19. ViolationEXT A-VACANT LOT CLEAN/MAINTAI

    Case 508207 · Violation 3753949 · COMPLIED

  20. Recorded transfer$23K transfer

    2012

  21. ViolationVACANT LOT KEEP CLEAN GET LIC

    Case 153397 · Violation 892041 · COMPLIED

  22. ViolationCLIP VIOLATION NOTICE

    Case 153397 · Violation 892040 · COMPLIED

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Permits and inspections 1 on this property

This property’s file includes Zoning permit record. A permit documents authorized scope and a City process; it is not by itself proof that every described improvement was completed, remains in place, or meets today’s condition expectations.

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

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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 check current status

An open row is a dated City status, not a diagnosis of current condition or a conclusion about the property. Read the case, notice, and any subsequent inspection together, then verify the live file.

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

Block context

4020 W Girard Ave sits on the 4000 block of W Girard Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 4022-26 W Girard Ave  ·  4014-18 W Girard Ave

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 10, 2026, 1:02 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: queried. “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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