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Mixed-use report

7715 Germantown Ave

1 story · CMX1 · built 2017

Absentee individual · assessed $552K. On the 7700 block of Germantown Ave.

Property summary

Assessment$552KCity assessed value Last sale—No sale value available Est. annual tax$8K/yearAssessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits1Dated events in report ViolationsNone openNone open when assembled

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Street view of 7715 Germantown Ave
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From above — imagery © Esri, Maxar

What stands out

From the public record
Finding

No interior square footage on file

Why it matters

The record carries a $552K assessment but no livable area — the number square footage math is normally built on. Per-square-foot comparisons for this property aren't possible from the public record.

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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 52% in 2027, but no matching permit appears in the property timeline.

Evidence: assessment moved from $364,100 to $552,200 · no permit shown in 2026-2028

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

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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 record to dig into any number.

Assessed value
$552K
built 2017
Price / sq ft
—
block $257 ·
Appreciation
+52%
+52%/yr, city 6.5%
In 5 years (~2031)
~$567K
+52%/yr own pace held 5 yrs — extrapolation, not a forecast
Est. tax / yr
$8K
1.4% effective
Jun 2022 tax snapshot
—
Gross yield
4.2%
≈$2K/mo rent
Times sold
0

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

$0$1.0M$2.0M2020: New construction, addition, GFA change$552K201620222027
This houseBlock median & rangePermit

The paper trail

New construction

built new under a 2020 permit.

  1. 2020 New construction, addition, GFA changePermit

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The house, on paper

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

Stories
1
Lot
5,576 sqft
Exterior condition
Average
city code 4
Interior condition
Average
city code 4
Quality grade
B
assessor's grade
Zoning
CMX1
city zoning code

OPA field-assessment attributes. Condition and grade are the assessor's codes, not an inspection.

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.

No interior square footage on file

The record carries a $552K assessment but no livable area — the number square footage math is normally built on. Per-square-foot comparisons for this property aren't possible from the public record.

Run the numbers

What owning 7715 Germantown 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 the area median. Assessed value is not an asking price — set the price slider to the real one.

$552K
20%
6.875%
$2K/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.

Block context

7715 Germantown Ave sits on the 7700 block of Germantown Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 7713 Germantown Ave  ·  7711 Germantown Ave

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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