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Philadelphia700 block of S 4th StRecords pulled July 9, 2026

Mixed-use report

710 S 4th St

1,859 sqft · CMX2 · built 2006

Absentee individual · assessed $309K · sold 2×. On the 700 block of S 4th St.

Street view of 710 S 4th St
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The story of this houseAI · written from the public record

Reading this house's deeds, permits and assessments…

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 the landlord

No active rental license on file

If this property is rented, Philadelphia requires a Rental License (via eCLIPSE) — without it a landlord cannot legally collect rent or evict, and tenants can withhold. Licensing needs tax clearance and no open violations.

Derived from this house's public records and the city's rules as of 2026 (abatement ordinance, Homestead, rental licensing, lead certification, L&I process, excavation protections). 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 analyst below to dig into any number.

Assessed value
$309K
built 2006
Price / sq ft
$166
block $195 · below block
Appreciation
+28%
+2%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$309K
+2%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$4K
1.4% effective
Gross yield
8.2%
≈$2K/mo rent
Times sold
2
kept in the family

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

$0$500K$1.0MBefore this chart — 2012: 2 L&I violations 2012: L&I: 1 failed, 1 passed2017: Sold $2.5M2019: Sold $1.9M 2019: Use 2019: Addition and/or Alteration2020: New Construction 2020: Alterations 2020: Addition and/or Alterations 2020: Rough-In 2020: Addition and/or Alterations2021: Change of Use$309K201620222027
This houseBlock median & rangeSalePermit
The paper trail

Bought for $2.5M in 2017, built new under a 2019 permit, sold for $1.9M in 2019.

  1. 2012 2 L&I violationsL&IL&I: 1 failed, 1 passedL&I visit
  2. 2017 $2.5MSold
  3. 2019 $1.9MSoldUsePermitAddition and/or AlterationPermit
  4. 2020 New ConstructionPermitAlterationsPermitAddition and/or AlterationsPermitRough-InPermitAddition and/or AlterationsPermit
  5. 2021 Change of UsePermit

Flags: long-held within one family. Informational only — not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

The house, on paper

The city assessor's field record — the physical spec sheet behind the assessed number.

Interior
1,859 sqft
livable area
Lot
683 sqft
Exterior condition
Below average
city code 5
Interior condition
Below average
city code 5
Quality grade
C+
assessor's grade
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 710 S 4th St 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.

$309K
20%
6.875%
$2K/mo

When this house last sold (2019) a 30-year mortgage ran about 3.94% — Freddie Mac's average that year.

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: 708 S 4th St  ·  712 S 4th St

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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