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617 N 17th St

1 story · 2,550 sqft · RM1 · built 1900

Apartment building · Philadelphia Housing Auth · tax-exempt. On the 600 block of N 17th St.

Property summary

Assessment$536KCity assessed value Last sale—No sale value available Est. annual tax$0/yearTax-exempt assessment Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits7Dated events in report ViolationsNone openNone open when assembled

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Street view of 617 N 17th St
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What stands out

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Finding

"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder

Why it matters

Philadelphia records use 1900 as a stand-in when the real construction year was never documented. Treat the age as unknown, not as 120+ years.

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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.

Dated record flagAssessment/permit mismatch

The assessment jumped 41% in 2023, but no matching permit appears in the property timeline.

Evidence: assessment moved from $456,500 to $642,500 · no permit shown in 2022-2024

Limit: Not proof of unpermitted work; reassessment, corrected data, or a permit under another parcel can also explain it.

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Not a houseProperty report

This is a apartment building, not a home, and it pays no property tax. BlockReport's value, tax and investment tools are for residential parcels, so they're hidden here. The full public record is still below, and the analyst can answer anything about it.

What it is
Apartment building
Row Conv/Apt 3 Sty Mason
Owner
Philadelphia Housing Auth
Public / institutional
Tax standing
Tax-exempt
Pays no property tax
$ / sq ft
$210
assessed value ÷ interior sqft
Assessed value
$536K
City market value
Interior area
2,550 sqft
Lot size
1,258 sqft
Stories
1
Built
1900
Zoning
RM1

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.

"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder

Philadelphia records use 1900 as a stand-in when the real construction year was never documented. Treat the age as unknown, not as 120+ years.

Block context

617 N 17th St sits on the 600 block of N 17th St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 615 N 17th St  ·  619 N 17th St

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

Available City datasets are queried from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com), then reports are cached and refreshed on a rolling schedule. Source dates vary: the parcel-level tax-delinquency snapshot is June 2022 and the separate detailed tax ledger ends in 2016, so neither establishes today’s balance. Other dossiers re-pull on view once stale, 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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