2026 assessment
$43K
OPA value, not a listing price
House report
2548 W Sterner St
3 bd1 ba2 stories840 sqftRSA5built 1915
Property at a glanceHouse
Entity-held
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.
- OPA assessment · 2016$17K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2017$17K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2018$17K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2019$21K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2020$21K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2021$21K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2022$21K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2023$45K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2024$45K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2025$60K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2026$43K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
- OPA assessment · 2027$40K assessed valueOPA’s value on the City tax roll for that year. It is not an appraisal, listing price, sale price, or live tax balance.How Philadelphia property assessments work ↗
Property assessmentBlock median & rangeZIP 19132 (Strawberry Mansion · North Philadelphia) medianAssessment
Scroll horizontally to move through the years. Each icon sits on its recorded date; records without a day are labeled and centered within their year. Select one to explain the filing.
Flags: $13K recorded in the June 2022 delinquency snapshot; verify current balance · historical tax ledger through 2016 recorded $12K with a lien entry. Informational only. Not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).
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Property tax
$0/year estimated property tax
2026 taxable assessment $0 × 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 $39,800. It is not the 2026 billed-year value.
Payments, credits, interest, and the current amount due are maintained by the City.
OPA 2813839002026 OPA removes $43,000 from the taxable assessment through the owner-occupant exemption. The exclusion reduces this assessment-based estimate to $0.
Historical delinquency sources Record found
$13,083.60 was recorded for this parcel in Philadelphia's June 2022 delinquency snapshot for 1989–2017. That amount may have been paid, reduced, or increased since; it is not a current payoff figure.
$3,499.03 principal$6,886.10 interest$406.41 penalty$2,292.06 other charges
The snapshot’s 2022 context used $21,200 total assessment, $21,200 taxable, and $0 exempt/abated. Those historical fields can differ from today’s OPA exemption status.
A separate historical parcel ledger ending in 2016 records $12,089.35 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.
1989$288.15 total · $0.00 principal · $268.98 interest · $9.17 penalty1990$331.92 total · $0.00 principal · $285.54 interest · $9.72 penalty1991$298.59 total · $0.00 principal · $255.90 interest · $8.73 penalty1992$422.85 total · $117.35 principal · $252.42 interest · $8.73 penalty1993$432.12 total · $127.73 principal · $250.99 interest · $8.94 penalty1994$424.00 total · $127.73 principal · $243.33 interest · $8.94 penalty1995$378.27 total · $115.56 principal · $213.21 interest · $8.09 penalty1996$370.93 total · $115.56 principal · $206.28 interest · $8.09 penalty1997$363.57 total · $115.56 principal · $199.34 interest · $8.09 penalty1998$396.15 total · $130.77 principal · $213.81 interest · $9.15 penalty1999$383.68 total · $130.77 principal · $202.04 interest · $9.15 penalty2000$908.20 total · $130.77 principal · $190.27 interest · $9.15 penalty2001$421.53 total · $155.10 principal · $211.71 interest · $10.86 penalty2002$512.55 total · $197.67 principal · $252.03 interest · $13.84 penalty2003$595.47 total · $240.25 principal · $284.69 interest · $16.82 penalty2004$642.34 total · $270.66 principal · $296.37 interest · $18.95 penalty2005$616.52 total · $270.66 principal · $272.01 interest · $18.95 penalty2006$590.70 total · $270.66 principal · $247.65 interest · $18.95 penalty2007$267.75 total · $82.64 principal · $120.36 interest · $18.95 penalty2008$506.82 total · $0.00 principal · $50.75 interest · $18.95 penalty2009$85.50 total · $0.00 principal · $26.39 interest · $18.95 penalty2010$23.35 total · $0.00 principal · $2.03 interest · $0.00 penalty2011$505.20 total · $297.46 principal · $138.32 interest · $20.82 penalty2012$494.35 total · $308.91 principal · $115.84 interest · $21.62 penalty2013$480.85 total · $320.02 principal · $91.21 interest · $22.40 penalty2014$492.76 total · $298.95 principal · $58.29 interest · $20.93 penalty2015$464.25 total · $298.95 principal · $31.39 interest · $20.93 penalty2016$390.98 total · $275.28 principal · $4.12 interest · $2.75 penalty
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.
Homestead exemption, mail goes elsewhere
The parcel claims the homestead exemption (owner lives here) while the tax bill mails to 18 Edelweiss Ct, Voorhees Nj, 08043. 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
3
Bathrooms
1
Stories
2
Interior
840 sqft
livable area
Lot
719 sqft
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
OPA field-assessment attributes. Condition and grade are the assessor's codes, not an inspection.
Recorded owner
Who's behind it
Construction Construction LLC · corporate / LLC owner
• Owns 3 properties across Philadelphia under this name, assessed at $151K combined
• Tax bills mail to 18 Edelweiss CT, Voorhees NJ, 08043 — outside Philadelphia
Block context
2500 block of W Sterner St. Compare parcels, ownership, and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 2546 W Sterner St · 2550 W Sterner St
L&I licenses checked through Jul 28, 2026
No business or residential license records
No business license or residential registration matched this OPA parcel in the latest City data.
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 29, 2026, 9:41 PM 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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