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Commercial property report

4973 Lancaster Ave

3,240 sqft · ICMX · built 1925

Commercial · Individual owner on record · assessed $194K (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $194K. On the 4900 block of Lancaster Ave.

Property summary

Assessment$194,4002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $194,400 Last sale$150KRecorded 2009 Est. tax bill$2,721/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency$223City snapshot · Jun 2022 Permits2Dated events in report Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records

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Street view of 4973 Lancaster Ave
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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$2,721/year

2026 taxable assessment $194,400 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $194,400; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

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OPA 521004301
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources Record found

$223.41 was recorded for this parcel in Philadelphia's June 2022 delinquency snapshot. That amount may have been paid, reduced, or increased since; it is not a current payoff figure.

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What stands out

From the public record
Finding

Assessment frozen for a decade

Why it matters

The assessed value hasn't moved once in 12 years of records while the city around it repriced. That usually means the parcel is falling through the reassessment process, not that its value is flat.

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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 $194,400; it is not yet the billed-year tax basis.

Assessment history · all dated City records marked on the line

$0$100K$200K2016 OPA assessment: $194K2017 OPA assessment: $194K2018 OPA assessment: $194K2019 OPA assessment: $194K2020 OPA assessment: $194K2021 OPA assessment: $194K2022 OPA assessment: $194K2023 OPA assessment: $194K2024 OPA assessment: $194K2025 OPA assessment: $194K2026 OPA assessment: $194K2027 OPA assessment: $194K2009 — 2009-08-12: Zoning board appeal$194K2009201220152018202120242027
This propertyAppeal
2009-08-12: Zoning board appeal
Every dated record1 event · scroll to browse
  1. AppealZoning board appeal
Commercial propertyProperty report

This is a commercial, recorded under the city's commercial category. The homeowner tools (rent estimate, homestead playbook) don't apply, so they're hidden. The full record and owner trail are below.

$223 · Jun 2022 delinquency snapshot

What it is
Commercial
Auto Dealer/Agncy Masonry
Owner
Individual owner on record
Individual name redacted
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $194K
Taxable assessment on the roll
$ / sq ft
$60
below the $130 median for 12,035 commercial parcels citywide
Corridor
Lancaster Avenue/44th-50th
city commercial corridor
Assessed value
$194,400
2026 OPA · 2027: $194,400
Interior area
3,240 sqft
Lot size
6,481 sqft
Built
1925
Zoning
ICMX

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Browse 1 dated record deeds, permits, inspections, licenses, violations, certifications & appeals
  1. AppealZoning board appeal

    Appeal 8429 · CLOSED · Granted with conditions

    CERTIFICATE FOR AN AUTO REPAIR SHOP (NO BODY FENDER WORK OR SPRAY PAINTING).

What this record suggests

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Where the record looks off

Places where the city's own paperwork disagrees with itself. These are flags on the data — not problems with the property.

Assessment frozen for a decade

The assessed value hasn't moved once in 12 years of records while the city around it repriced. That usually means the parcel is falling through the reassessment process, not that its value is flat.

Block context

4973 Lancaster Ave sits on the 4900 block of Lancaster Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 4977-79 Lancaster Ave  ·  4981-89 Lancaster Ave

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 9, 2026, 9:06 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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