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Philadelphia4200 block of Chester AveRecords pulled July 9, 2026

House report

4213 Chester Ave

3 stories · 23,690 sqft · RM1 · built 2014

Investor / LLC · assessed $3.7M · sold 1×. On the 4200 block of Chester Ave.

Street view of 4213 Chester Ave
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The story of this houseAI · written from the public record

Reading this house's deeds, permits and assessments…

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

7 open violations: the clock matters

L&I appeals must be filed within 30 days — just 6 days if a property is designated UNSAFE or IMMINENTLY DANGEROUS. Left unresolved, the city can do the work itself, bill the owner (routinely $50,000+ on a rowhouse), lien the property, and add court fines of $300+/day.

If you’re the landlord

Licensed rental — keep it that way

Renewal requires city tax clearance and zero open L&I violations on the property. A lapsed license suspends the right to collect rent or evict.

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.

Who's behind it

4213 Living LP · corporate / LLC owner

• Holds an active rental license for this address

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 analyst below to dig into any number.

Assessed value
$3.7M
built 2014
Price / sq ft
$157
block $221 · below block
Appreciation
+59%
+4%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$3.7M
+4%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$52K
1.4% effective
Gross yield
Times sold
1
licensed rental

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

$0$2.5M$5.0MBefore this chart — 2014: Appeal filed 2015: L&I violation 2015: Administrative2023: New construction, addition, GFA change 2023: 7 L&I violations 2023: Addition and/or Alteration 2023: Alterations2024: Change of Use 2024: Appeal granted 2024: Addition and/or Alterations 2024: Addition and/or Alteration 2024: Addition and/or Alterations$3.7M201620222027
This houseBlock median & rangeL&I violationZoningPermit
The paper trail

demolished and rebuilt (2015).

  1. 2014 Appeal filedZoning
  2. 2015 L&I violationL&IAdministrativePermit
  3. 2023 New construction, addition, GFA changePermit7 L&I violationsL&IAddition and/or AlterationPermitAlterationsPermit
  4. 2024 Change of UsePermitAppeal grantedZoningAddition and/or AlterationsPermitAddition and/or AlterationPermitAddition and/or AlterationsPermit

Flags: active rental license · 7 open L&I violations · 4 zoning/board appeals on record. Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

The house, on paper

The city assessor's field record — the physical spec sheet behind the assessed number.

Stories
3
Interior
23,690 sqft
livable area
Lot
11,497 sqft
Exterior condition
Average
city code 4
Interior condition
Average
city code 4
Quality grade
B-
assessor's grade
Zoning
RM1
city zoning code
Zoning appeals
4
granted 2024

OPA field-assessment attributes. Condition and grade are the assessor's codes, not an inspection.

Run the numbers

What owning 4213 Chester Ave 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.

$3.7M
20%
6.875%
$27K/mo

When this house last sold (2014) a 30-year mortgage ran about 4.17% — Freddie Mac's average that year.

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.

Next door: 4211 Chester Ave  ·  4215 Chester Ave

Where this comes from

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; the masthead date is when this page's records were last pulled. 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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