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4817 Old York Rd

Vacant · assessed $15K · sold 1×. On the 4800 block of Old York Rd.

Street view of 4817 Old York Rd
From the street — imagery © Google
From above — imagery © Esri, Maxar

Property summary

Assessment$15KCity assessed value Last sale$17KRecorded 2024 Est. taxes$210/yearAnnual city record Permits0Shown in this report ViolationsNone openNo open L&I cases

What stands out

From the public record

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

$2,605 in back taxes on record

Interest and penalties keep compounding until a Revenue payment agreement is in place, and a lien is already filed — an owner-occupant agreement also stops the sheriff-sale track.

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.

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 record to dig into any number.

Assessed value
$15K
Price / sq ft
—
block $103 ·
Appreciation
+6%
+1%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$15K
+1%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$210
1.4% effective
Gross yield
—
Times sold
1

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

$0$100K$200KBefore this chart — 2010: L&I violation 2011: L&I violation 2011: Demolished 2012: 2 L&I violations 2014: 2 L&I violations2024: Sold $17K$15K201620222027
This houseBlock median & rangeSalePermit

The paper trail

Improved

Bought for $17K in 2024.

  1. 2010 L&I violationL&I
  2. 2011 L&I violationL&IDemolishedTeardown
  3. 2012 2 L&I violationsL&I
  4. 2014 2 L&I violationsL&I
  5. 2024 $17KSold

Flags: $3K back taxes (2012–2016, $499 of it interest & penalties, lien filed). Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

Run the numbers

What owning 4817 Old York Rd 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.

$25K
20%
6.875%
$700/mo

When this house last sold (2024) a 30-year mortgage ran about 6.72% — 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.

Block context

4817 Old York Rd sits on the 4800 block of Old York Rd. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

See the whole block →

Next door: 4815 Old York Rd  ·  4819 Old York Rd

Where this comes from

Methodology & freshness

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. 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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