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Philadelphia500 block of W Lehigh AveRecords pulled July 9, 2026

House report

518 W Lehigh Ave

Vacant · assessed $71K · sold 1×. On the 500 block of W Lehigh Ave.

Street view of 518 W Lehigh Ave
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From above — imagery © Esri, Maxar
The story of this houseAI · written from the public record

Reading this house's deeds, permits and assessments…

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
$71K
Price / sq ft
block $62 ·
Appreciation
+861%
+23%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$72K
+23%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$995
1.4% effective
Gross yield
Times sold
1

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

$0$125K$250KBefore this chart — 2009: Sold $10K 2013: L&I violation 2013: Zoning/use$71K201620222027
This houseBlock median & rangePermit
The paper trail

Bought for $10K in 2009. Owner pulled a zoning/use permit in 2013.

  1. 2009 $10KSold
  2. 2013 L&I violationL&IZoning/usePermit

Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

Run the numbers

What owning 518 W Lehigh 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.

$71K
20%
6.875%
$700/mo
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: 516 W Lehigh Ave  ·  520 W Lehigh 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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