2026 taxable assessment $240,000 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.
OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $243,200; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.
House report
612 Catharine St
2 bd · 1 ba · 3 stories · 1,005 sqft · RSA5 · built 1915
Absentee individual · assessed $240K (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $243K · sold 1×. On the 600 block of Catharine St.
Property summary
Assessment$240,0002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $243,200
Last sale$225KRecorded 2019
Est. tax bill$3,360/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998%
Tax delinquencyNo 2022 matchNot proof account is current
Permits2Every fetched City permit
Violations2 open5 historical across 4 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 0220524002026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.
Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion
This parcel did not match the June 2022 delinquency snapshot. That absence does not confirm the account is current today.
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 recordNew construction
Why it mattersbuilt new under a 2023 permit, sold for $225K in 2019.
View supporting records →City Property History
Fetched L&I and zoning records
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- Recorded owner
- Elaine Cahill & Joseph Cahill
- Tax mailing address
- 42 EVERGREEN AVE, BROOMALL PA, 19008
- L&I district
- CENTRAL EAST
- Building ID (BIN)
- —
- OPA account
- 022052400
Permits2Every dated permit
Violation cases45 violation records · 1 open
Investigations63 failed · 1 passed · 0 closed
Building certifications0No match
Business licenses10 active
Appeals1Completed · Granted
PermitsPermit number, issued date, work and City status2
New construction, addition, GFA changePermit ZP-2022-013761
Sep 20, 2023 Issued
FOR THE PARTIAL DEMOLITION AT THE THIRD FLOOR LEVEL OF AN EXISTING ATTACHED STRUCTURE AND THE ADDITIONS AT THE THIRD FLOOR LEVEL WITH A ROOF DECK ACCESSED BY A ROOF DECK ACCESS STRUCTURE. SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN IN THE APPLICATION / PLAN
Addition and/or AlterationPermit RP-2024-004382
Oct 30, 2024 Issued
FOR THE PARTIAL DEMOLITION AT THE THIRD FLOOR LEVEL OF AN EXISTING ATTACHED STRUCTURE AND ERECTION OF THE THIRD FLOOR ADDITIONS WITH A ROOF DECK ACCESSED BY A ROOF DECK ACCESS STRUCTURE, AND FOR LEVEL II ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING STRUCTURE. ALTERATIONS TO INCLUDE THE ERECTION OF PARTITION WALLS, PROVIDE FINISHES/FURNISHINGS. ALL WORK TO BE DONE PER APPROVED PLANS. ** SEPARATE PERMIT REQUIRE FOR ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING AND MECHANICAL **
Violation cases5 individual violation records; resolved history remains visible4
Case CF-2025-128703CLOSED
SITE VIOLATION NOTICE · Opened Nov 29, 2025 · completed Jun 2, 2026
- POSTING OF PERMITS Violation VI-2025-092964Nov 29, 2025 SVN ISSUED
Case CF-2025-128704CLOSED
SITE VIOLATION NOTICE · Opened Nov 29, 2025 · completed Apr 30, 2026
- DEBRIS REMOVE- CONSTRUCTIONViolation VI-2025-092966Nov 29, 2025 SVN ISSUED
Case CF-2026-004047IN VIOLATION
NOTICE OF VIOLATION · Opened Jan 13, 2026
- VACANT & OPEN PROPERTIESViolation VI-2026-002512Jan 13, 2026 OPEN
- VACANT STRUCTURE & LANDViolation VI-2026-002513Jan 13, 2026 OPEN
Case CF-2026-027143CLOSED
NOTICE OF VIOLATION · Opened Mar 24, 2026 · completed Jul 6, 2026
- ARCHITECT/ENGINEER SERVICESViolation VI-2026-017201Mar 25, 2026 CLOSED
InvestigationsEvery inspector visit, including CLOSED outcomes6
L&I investigationCase CF-2025-128703
Nov 29, 2025
L&I investigationCase CF-2025-128704
Nov 29, 2025
L&I investigationCase CF-2026-004047
Jan 13, 2026 FAILED
L&I investigationCase CF-2026-004047
Jan 14, 2026 FAILED
L&I investigationCase CF-2026-027143
Mar 25, 2026 FAILED
L&I investigationCase CF-2026-027143
Jul 6, 2026 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 retained1
RentalLicense 451714
S&S PROPERTIES II, LP
Revenue code 3202 · First issued Jul 18, 2008 Closed Expiration Feb 29, 2020
AppealsApplication status and decision are separate City fields1
ZBA Permit Denial - VarianceAppeal ZP-2022-013761
Oct 23, 2023 Completed Granted Related permit ZP-2022-013761
[PERMIT] FOR THE PARTIAL DEMOLITION AT THE THIRD FLOOR LEVEL OF AN EXISTING ATTACHED STRUCTURE AND THE ADDITIONS AT THE THIRD FLOOR LEVEL WITH A ROOF DECK ACCESSED BY A ROOF DECK ACCESS STRUCTURE. FOR USE AS A SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSEHOLD LIVING
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.
3 resolve before relying
1 verify
Resolve before relyingZoning approval is not the occupancy fileAppeal #ZP-2022-013761: Completed · Granted; related permit ZP-2022-013761.
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: RP-2024-004382 (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 ↗Resolve before relying2 open L&I violations5 violation rows are retained in the City ledger.
Why it mattersOpen notices can accrue fees, block permits or license renewal, and move to court or collection. Standard initial notices generally have a 30-day appeal window; unsafe or imminently-dangerous notices have a much shorter window.
Verify nextRead the notice—not only the summary status—and confirm reinspection, fees, and appeal posture with L&I.
Open the controlling City guidance ↗VerifyFailed inspections are dated events—not the current condition3 failed, 1 passed, and 0 CLOSED investigation outcomes are in the fetched history; the latest dated visit was PASSED on Jul 6, 2026.
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 ↗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.
Records to verify together
More than one separately dated public record deserves a current-status check.
Evidence: 2 open L&I violations · failed L&I inspection activity in 2026
Limit: A screening signal, not a foreclosure prediction. Tax entries are historical and must be verified with Philadelphia Revenue.
Recent transition activity
The property has an unusually active paper trail worth monitoring for the next permit, inspection, deed, or listing.
Evidence: 2 permit events since 2023 · 1 zoning/board appeal 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 1915: 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.
Zoned RSA5: one household by right
Single-family rowhouse (the classic Philly row). Converting to a duplex or apartments needs a use variance the zoning board rarely grants — Pennsylvania courts require a physical hardship of the lot itself, and economics alone do not qualify.
If you own it
2 open violations: the clock matters
Most L&I appeals must be filed within 30 days; unsafe or imminently dangerous orders can carry a shorter deadline. Unresolved notices can lead to fees, court enforcement, City abatement work, and liens. Read the dated notice and verify its current status with L&I.
If you’re the landlord
If it is rented, verify the Rental License
The fetched license records do not show an active Rental License. Ownership type or a tax mailing address does not prove that tenants occupy the property; if it is rented, verify the current license and legal occupancy in eCLIPSE.
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 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
$240,000
2026 billed-year assessment · 2027: $243,200 · built 1915
Price / sq ft
$242
block $372 · below block
Appreciation
+7%
+1%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$243K
+1%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax bill / yr
$3,360
1.38% effective
Jun 2022 tax snapshot
No match
not proof the account is current
Gross yield
8.5%
≈$2K/mo rent
Times sold
1
Value vs. the block, over time — sales, permits & L&I events marked on the line
This houseBlock median & rangeSaleL&I violationZoningPermit
The paper trail
New constructionbuilt new under a 2023 permit, sold for $225K in 2019.
- 2019 $225KSold
- 2023 New construction, addition, GFA changePermitAppeal grantedZoning
- 2024 Addition and/or AlterationPermit
- 2025 2 L&I violationsL&I
- 2026 3 L&I violationsL&IL&I: 3 failed, 1 passedL&I visit
Flags: 2 open L&I violations · 1 zoning/board appeal on record. 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.
Bedrooms
2
Bathrooms
1
Stories
3
Interior
1,005 sqft
livable area
Lot
335 sqft
Basement
Full, unfinished
city code C
Heat
Undetermined
city code H
Exterior condition
Vacant
city code 6
Vacant
Interior condition
Vacant
city code 6
Vacant
Quality grade
C
assessor's grade
ABCDE
Zoning
RSA5
city zoning code
Zoning appeals
1
Completed · Granted · 2023
OPA field-assessment attributes. Condition and grade are the assessor's codes, not an inspection.
Run the numbers
What owning 612 Catharine St 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 the area median. Assessed value is not an asking price — set the price slider to the real one.
When this house last sold (2019) a 30-year mortgage ran about 3.94% — 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
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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 use this parcel's taxable assessment, not a live Tax Center balance.
Block context
612 Catharine St sits on the 600 block of Catharine St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 610 Catharine St · 614 Catharine St
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, 3:21 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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