2026 taxable assessment $261,600 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.
OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $306,000; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.
Mixed-use report
5015 Baltimore Ave
3,060 sqft · CMX2 · built 1925
Absentee individual · assessed $262K (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $306K · 3 licensed units · sold 1×. On the 5000 block of Baltimore Ave.
Property summary
Assessment$261,6002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $306,000
Last sale$132KRecorded 2009
Est. tax bill$3,662/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998%
Tax delinquencyNo 2022 matchNot proof account is current
Permits11Every fetched City permit
Violations0 open3 historical across 2 cases
“Open” reflects records available then historical records keep their source dates estimates are labeled
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Property tax
The estimate, live balance, and back-tax record are different.
BlockReport can calculate the annual tax from the City’s taxable assessment. Payments, credits, interest, and a current amount due live separately in Philadelphia Tax Center.
A Tax Center balance is net of bills, payments, credits, interest, and adjustments. A credit—or an amount due—is not automatically “back taxes.”
OPA 8715722202026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.
Historical delinquency sources Record found
This parcel did not match the June 2022 delinquency snapshot. That absence does not confirm the account is current today.
A separate historical parcel ledger ending in 2016 records $3,495.48 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.
2016$3,495.48 total · $3,132.61 principal · $46.98 interest · $31.33 penalty
For a purchase, refinance, or closing, request the City’s official Property Payoff statement in Tax Center under “More options.”
What stands out
From the public recordImproved
Why it mattersOwner pulled a alterations permit in 2025.
View supporting records →City Property History
Fetched L&I and zoning records
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- Recorded owner
- Milan Marvelous
- Tax mailing address
- 507 S 44TH ST, PHILADELPHIA PA, 19104
- L&I district
- CENTRAL WEST
- Building ID (BIN)
- —
- OPA account
- 871572220
Permits11Every dated permit
Violation cases23 violation records · 0 open
Investigations106 failed · 2 passed · 2 closed
Building certifications0No match
Business licenses43 active
Appeals0No match
PermitsPermit number, issued date, work and City status11
UsePermit 168522
Aug 1, 2008 COMPLETED Completed Aug 1, 2008
1ST FLR FRONT-STORE FRONT;1ST FLR REAR-1 APARTMENT; 2ND & 3RD FLR 1 APARTMENT EACH
AlterationPermit 257038
Jan 12, 2010 COMPLETED Completed Jul 8, 2010
REPAIR PLYWOOD AROUND BAY WINDOW & ADD CEDAR SHINGLES TO PLYWOOD,FLASH & TRIM AS NEEDED.
ElectricalPermit 479386
Jun 27, 2013 COMPLETED Completed Apr 9, 2018
REPLACE SIX, 120 VOLT SMOKE DETECTORS
Zoning/usePermit 535868
Jun 16, 2014 COMPLETED Completed Jun 16, 2014
FOR THE REMOVAL OF ALL EXISTING SIGNS AND FOR THE ERECTION OF A NON-ILLUMINATED DOUBLE FACED PROJECTING SIGN ACCESSORY TO A RETAIL SALES OF CONSUMER GOODS ON THE FIRST FLOOR IN THE SAME BUILDING WITH AN EXISTING TWO FAMILY HOUSEHOLD LIVING ABOVE.
SignPermit 543354
Aug 18, 2014 COMPLETED Completed Sep 30, 2014
ADDING A SMALL BUSINESS SIGN TO FRONT OF BUILDING
ElectricalPermit 647693
Nov 9, 2015 COMPLETED Completed Feb 24, 2016
SEPARATE GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL UNIT AND HOUSE CIRCUITS, ADD 5TH 100A HOUSE METER AND SERVICE/LOAD CENTER, ADD INTERSYSTEM BONDING TERMINAL... IN ACCORDANCE WITH 2008 NEC
Change of UsePermit ZP-2025-003509
May 13, 2025 Issued
Eating and Drinking Establishments - Prepared Food Shop
Addition and/or AlterationPermit CP-2025-001946
May 22, 2025 Completed Completed Nov 12, 2025
FOR LEVEL II ALTERATIONS PER APPROVED PLANS. SEPARATE PERMIT REQUIRED FOR MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL AND PLUMBING WORK.
Addition and/or AlterationPermit EP-2025-005367
Jun 10, 2025 Completed Completed Oct 20, 2025
Electrical work for cafe based on plans dated 4/18/25, per NEC 2017. Installation of dedicated lines detailed in the plans for countertop and appliance receptacles. All will be grounded and receptacles will be tamper resistant and GFCI protected, where required.
AlterationsPermit PP-2025-007005
Jul 17, 2025 Completed Completed Oct 28, 2025
Installation of a 3 floor sinks, 1 floor drain, 1 hand sink and 1 mop sink Connect to existing sewer and domestic water.
AlterationsPermit PP-2025-015175
Nov 23, 2025 Issued
REPLACE 3/4" BACKFLOW DEVICE.
Violation cases3 individual violation records; resolved history remains visible2
Case 225164CLOSED
STANDARD · Opened Jan 22, 2010 · completed May 13, 2014
- ELEC-COVER PLATE DEFECTIVE-RESViolation 1612347Jan 27, 2010 COMPLIED
- PROSEC- STD INFOViolation 1612346Jan 27, 2010 COMPLIED
Case 465571CLOSED
STANDARD · Opened Jan 12, 2015 · completed Aug 12, 2015
- LICENSE-RES MFDViolation 3589549Jan 9, 2015 COMPLIED
InvestigationsEvery inspector visit, including CLOSED outcomes10
HCEU INSPCase 225164
Jan 27, 2010 FAILED
HCEU INSPCase 225164
Feb 22, 2010 FAILED
HCEU INSPCase 225164
Feb 23, 2010 CLOSED
PRECOURTCase 225164
Mar 8, 2010 FAILED
PRECOURTCase 225164
Apr 1, 2010 PASSED
HCEU INSPCase 465571
Jan 9, 2015 FAILED
HCEU INSPCase 465571
Feb 17, 2015 FAILED
HCEU INSPCase 465571
Mar 24, 2015 CLOSED
PRECOURTCase 465571
Jun 9, 2015 FAILED
PRECOURTCase 465571
Aug 12, 2015 PASSED
Building certificationsInspection result and filed expiration date by L&I building ID0
No building certifications matched this parcel in the fetched City dataset.
Business licensesHistorical and active licenses are both retained4
RentalLicense 390129
KENNETH BROWN
Revenue code 3202 · First issued Nov 2, 2006 Inactive Expiration Feb 28, 2009 Inactive Nov 9, 2009
RentalLicense 487474
MILAN MARVELOUS
Revenue code 3202 · First issued Nov 9, 2009 Active Expiration Feb 28, 2027
Food Preparing and ServingLicense 0995574
Little Bean Cafe
Revenue code 3120 · First issued Dec 15, 2025 Active Expiration Dec 14, 2026
Sidewalk CafeLicense 1001450
Little Bean Cafe
Revenue code 3123 · First issued Mar 9, 2026 Active Expiration Mar 8, 2027
AppealsApplication status and decision are separate City fields0
No appeals matched this parcel in the fetched City dataset.
City of Philadelphia OPA, L&I and Zoning Board records, shown as filed. A CLOSED investigation is an outcome label, not a missing visit; an appeal's application status and decision may differ.
Legal due diligence
What this record proves—and what it does not.
These checks are triggered by this property’s actual City rows. They identify the controlling document to verify; they do not declare a use legal, a building safe, or title clear.
2 resolve before relying
5 verify
1 favorable dated record
Resolve before relyingZoning approval is not the occupancy fileUse permit #168522: COMPLETED.
Why it mattersPhiladelphia says a zoning approval or Property Sales Certification can identify a use without proving that it was established under the Building Code. A change of use, unit count, exits, or fire rating can require a Building Permit and Certificate of Occupancy.
Verify nextVerify the lawful use, unit count, associated construction permits, and Certificate of Occupancy with L&I.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗Resolve before relyingA permit row needs file-level verification1 permit not marked completed: PP-2025-015175 (Issued).
Why it mattersIssued work is not the same as approved final work. L&I uses final inspections and required certifications to close construction permits; expired, withdrawn, and completed are different City statuses.
Verify nextOpen the permit file and confirm final inspections, holds, and any resulting occupancy certificate.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗VerifyResidential and business space run on separate compliance tracksOPA classifies this parcel as mixed-use.
Why it mattersThe zoning/use and occupancy file must cover the actual residential and commercial spaces. Dwelling units can require Rental Licenses and lead compliance; the operator can separately need an Activity License and sector license; installed fire systems can require annual certification.
Verify nextMatch every dwelling and business use to the zoning permit, CO, current operator licenses, and life-safety filings.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗VerifyA rental license does not transfer with the deed1 active Rental License record matched.
Why it mattersIf dwelling space is rented, the buyer must obtain a new annual Rental License; the seller’s license is not transferable. New applications require proof of ownership and legal occupancy, tax compliance, no open L&I violations, and lead compliance where applicable.
Verify nextPlan the buyer’s replacement license before settlement.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗VerifyLead compliance is a separate recordOPA records a 1925 build year; BlockReport does not receive the Health Department’s unit-level lead certificate file.
Why it mattersPhiladelphia requires covered pre-March-1978 rentals to be certified lead-safe or lead-free for a new or renewed lease and for a new or renewed Rental License. A certificate is unit-specific; a renovation does not by itself create an exemption.
Verify nextRequest the current lead certificate or City exemption for every dwelling unit.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗VerifyFailed inspections are dated events—not the current condition6 failed, 2 passed, and 2 CLOSED investigation outcomes are in the fetched history; the latest dated visit was PASSED on Aug 12, 2015.
Why it mattersA PASSED or FAILED value applies to that inspection visit. CLOSED is a separate source status; none of the three alone proves the parent permit or violation case closed—or describes today’s condition.
Verify nextOpen the parent case/permit for each material failure and confirm its later disposition.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗VerifyA separate Commercial Trash account may applyOPA classifies the parcel as mixed-use. BlockReport does not receive a current Commercial Trash account balance.
Why it mattersPhiladelphia charges qualifying small commercial, mixed-use, and multi-unit properties that use City collection; exemptions and private collection can change applicability. A use category alone does not prove a fee is due.
Verify nextCheck the Commercial Trash account inside the date-effective Property Payoff.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗Favorable dated recordNo open violation; closed history remains relevantThe fetched record shows 0 open and 3 historical violations across 2 cases.
Why it mattersA closed case is materially better than an open one, but it does not by itself prove that every altered use, unit, or concealed condition matches today’s approvals.
Verify nextUse the closed cases to target the inspection and occupancy-file review.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗Closing file: checks no public-record summary can replace5 documents/searches to assign before settlement
Property Sales Certification
The seller must obtain Philadelphia’s certificate showing the base zoning, last use in the zoning record, and open violations. The City warns that it does not prove Building Code occupancy or show zoning overlays.
Next: Obtain the fresh certificate and compare it with the CO, permits, and Atlas overlays.
Official guidance ↗Date-effective City Property Payoff
The Tax Center Property Payoff covers Real Estate Tax, Commercial Trash, and L&I abatement-work invoices. Philadelphia says it does not include business-tax debts or liens, water and sewer charges, or fines for code violations.
Next: Request the City statement effective through settlement; read every period and invoice.
Official guidance ↗Professional title and water-lien searches
OPA ownership, deed summaries, and a zero tax balance are not clear title. Mortgages, judgments, municipal claims, water liens, easements, heirs, and other encumbrances require separate searches.
Next: Use a Pennsylvania lawyer/title company and obtain owner’s title insurance; order the separate water search/payoff.
Official guidance ↗Separate water-lien guidance ↗Seller-specific tax relief is not the buyer’s bill
LOOP and low-income or senior Real Estate Tax freezes depend on the qualifying owner and continued program eligibility; a buyer cannot assume the seller’s capped or frozen bill continues. A separately verified property abatement often remains with the property for its remaining term, but program-specific new-owner filing, use, and tax-compliance conditions still must be confirmed—not inferred from the reduced assessment alone.
Next: Have Revenue or OPA identify every current benefit, model the buyer’s bill without seller-specific relief, and confirm any verified abatement in writing.
Official guidance ↗Separate water-lien guidance ↗Seller disclosure and independent inspections
For a covered Pennsylvania residential transfer, obtain the statutory seller disclosure. It reports the seller’s knowledge; it is not a warranty, title search, code review, or substitute for inspections. Because OPA dates this building before 1978, separately obtain the required federal/City lead disclosures and any test results.
Next: Have the agreement and disclosure reviewed for this transaction’s coverage and exceptions.
Official guidance ↗Informational only—not a legal opinion, title report, code inspection, tax payoff, or substitute for a Pennsylvania lawyer, title company, inspector, or tax professional.
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.
Recent transition activity
The property has an unusually active paper trail worth monitoring for the next permit, inspection, deed, or listing.
Evidence: 5 permit events since 2023
Limit: Record activity alone does not establish that a sale or redevelopment is planned.
Transparent record rules, not a score or forecast. Each flag is a prompt to verify the cited records, not a prediction or allegation.
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’re buying
Built 1925: lead rules apply
Federal law requires a lead-paint disclosure at sale for any pre-1978 home. If it will be rented, Philadelphia also requires a lead-safe or lead-free certificate before a rental license can issue.
If you own it
$3,495 in the historical tax ledger through 2016
Historical context only, not a current payoff figure; that ledger also contains a lien entry. Verify today's balance and lien status directly with Philadelphia Revenue before relying on it.
If you’re the landlord
Lead certificate is not optional
Built 1925: every rental unit needs a lead-safe or lead-free certificate on file with the City. Without one: fines up to $2,000/day per unit, tenants may withhold rent, courts can order rent refunded — and no eviction will stand.
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 the fetched property records and linked City guidance as of 2026. Assessment treatment is not a substitute for an exemption approval, live balance, title report, license, occupancy certificate, or inspection. Informational only — not legal, tax, or investment advice.
The investment read
How this building 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
$261,600
2026 billed-year assessment · 2027: $306,000 · built 1925
Price / sq ft
$100
block $100 · in line w/ block
Appreciation
+34%
+3%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$306K
+3%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax bill / yr
$3,662
1.2% effective
Jun 2022 tax snapshot
No match
not proof the account is current
Gross yield
6.2%
≈$2K/mo rent
Times sold
1
licensed rental
Value vs. the block, over time — sales, permits & L&I events marked on the line
This houseBlock median & rangePermit
The paper trail
ImprovedOwner pulled a alterations permit in 2025.
- 2010 L&I: 3 failed, 1 passedL&I visit
- 2013 ElectricalPermit
- 2014 Zoning/usePermitSignPermit
- 2015 L&I violationL&IL&I: 3 failed, 1 passedL&I visitElectricalPermit
- 2025 Change of UsePermitAddition and/or AlterationPermitAddition and/or AlterationPermitAlterationsPermitAlterationsPermit
Flags: active rental license · historical tax ledger through 2016 recorded $3K with a lien entry. Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).
The property, on paper
The city assessor's field record — the physical spec sheet behind the assessed number.
Interior
3,060 sqft
livable area
Lot
1,790 sqft
Exterior condition
Average
city code 4
Above averageBelow average
Interior condition
Average
city code 4
Above averageBelow average
Quality grade
C
assessor's grade
ABCDE
Zoning
CMX2
city zoning code
OPA field-assessment attributes. Condition and grade are the assessor's codes, not an inspection.
Run the numbers
What owning 5015 Baltimore Ave takes, at your price and your rate. Taxes start with an annual estimate from the City’s taxable assessment, not a current bill or balance; rent starts at 3 licensed units × ~85% of the area's median unit rent — the whole building's income, not one unit's. Assessed value is not an asking price — set the price slider to the real one.
When this house last sold (2009) a 30-year mortgage ran about 5.04% — Freddie Mac's average that year.
Mortgage
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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, $2,100/yr insurance, 1% of price/yr maintenance; taxes use this parcel's taxable assessment, not a live Tax Center balance.
Block context
5015 Baltimore Ave sits on the 5000 block of Baltimore Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 5013 Baltimore Ave · 5017 Baltimore Ave
Where this comes from
- Assessment, spec sheet & owner — OPA Property Assessments, Office of Property Assessment
- Sales & deed history — Realty Transfer Tax records, Recorder of Deeds
- Permits, violations & inspections — L&I Property History · Atlas
- Tax delinquency snapshot · June 2022 — Real Estate Tax Delinquencies, Dept. of Revenue
- Historical tax ledger & liens · through 2016 — Real Estate Tax Balances, Dept. of Revenue
- Current property-tax balance — Verify with Philadelphia Revenue
- Zoning appeals — L&I & Zoning Board appeals
- Neighborhood income & rents — US Census ACS 5-year estimates
- Historical mortgage rates — Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, annual averages
- Imagery — Street photo © Google · Aerial © Esri, Maxar
Methodology & freshness
This report was assembled Jul 10, 2026, 1:21 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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