House report

229 Chestnut St

2 bd2 ba1 story1,630 sqftCMX3built 1900

Property at a glanceHouse

Owner-occupancy signal

2026 assessment
$513K OPA value, not a listing price
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Assessment and City record timeline

Published City assessments for this house against its block and ZIP. Dated City filings are marked on the same line. Select one to read it. Assessments are tax-roll values, not sale prices or appraisals.

$0$1.0M$2.0MZIP 19106 (Old City · Society Hill) median$520K2015201720192021202320252027
Property assessmentBlock median & rangeZIP 19106 (Old City · Society Hill) medianAssessmentCertification

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Every dated record5 events · exact dates, newest first
  1. CertificationSprinkler Certification
  2. CertificationFire Alarm Certification
  3. CertificationEmergency and Standby Power Systems Certification
  4. CertificationSprinkler Certification
  5. CertificationSprinkler Certification

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

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$5,780/year estimated property tax

2026 taxable assessment $412,900 × 1.3998%. This is an estimate, not a bill or account balance. The City maintains payments, credits, interest, and the current amount due.

OPA has published a 2027 assessment of $520,000. It is not the 2026 billed-year value.

Current City balanceCheck Tax Center

Payments, credits, interest, and the current amount due are maintained by the City.

OPA 888049196
Open Philadelphia Tax Center →Use “View period balance” to inspect each tax year.
Exemption classificationHomestead exemption

2026 OPA removes $100,000 from the taxable assessment through the owner-occupant exemption.

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.”

Where the record looks off

Conflicts in City paperwork. Flags on the data, not 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.

Homestead exemption, mail goes elsewhere

The parcel claims the homestead exemption (owner lives here) while the tax bill mails to 35681 Butterfly Peak Rd, Mountain Center Ca, 92561. Those two facts sit in tension on the record — there can be innocent reasons, but one of them is usually out of date.

The property, on paper

OPA physical field record.

Bedrooms
2
Bathrooms
2
Stories
1
Interior
1,630 sqft livable area
Exterior condition
Average city code 4
Interior condition
Average city code 4
Quality grade
B assessor's grade
Zoning
CMX3 city zoning code

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

Block context

200 block of Chestnut St. Compare parcels, ownership, and public-record history.

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Next door: 229 Chestnut St  ·  229 Chestnut St

Business licenses at this address Latest pull

What L&I has registered at this OPA parcel, newest initial license date first.

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No L&I business license is on record at this address in data through Jul 24, 2026.

A license is an L&I registration, not proof that a business is open, operating today, or located at this storefront. Dates are license dates. Events are deduped by parcel, business identity, and license type, so a renewal is not shown as another opening. Other permit and filing types remain in the full source ledger.

Open every source row 5 dated rows
  1. CertificationSprinkler Certification

    Certification BC-2025-025376 · Certified

    Expires 2026-09-23

  2. CertificationFire Alarm Certification

    Certification BC-2025-010476 · Certified

    Expires 2026-03-24

  3. CertificationEmergency and Standby Power Systems Certification

    Certification BC-2025-010477 · Certified

    Expires 2026-03-24

  4. CertificationSprinkler Certification

    Certification BC-2024-020072 · Certified

    Expires 2025-06-27

  5. CertificationSprinkler Certification

    Certification BC-2024-008927 · Certified

    Expires 2024-06-02

Where this comes from

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 25, 2026, 2:32 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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