The Block Report

House report

40 E Seymour St

3 bd1 ba2 stories976 sqftRSA5built 1900

Property at a glanceHouse

Individual, other or unknown mailing address

2026 assessment
$106K 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$125K$250KZIP 19144 (Germantown) median$113K2003200720112015201920232027
Property assessmentBlock median & rangeZIP 19144 (Germantown) medianAssessmentL&I violationInspectionLicense

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Every dated record7 events · exact dates, newest first
  1. LicenseDONNA BROOKS SAUNDERS: Rental landlord or residential registration marked inactive
  2. L&I violationVIOL NONE FOUND
  3. InspectionHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)
  4. InspectionHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)
  5. InspectionHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)
  6. InspectionHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)
  7. LicenseDONNA BROOKS SAUNDERS: Rental landlord or residential registration initially issued

Flags: $2K recorded in the June 2022 delinquency snapshot; verify current balance · historical tax ledger through 2016 recorded $3K with a lien entry. Informational only. Not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

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$1,487/year estimated property tax

2026 taxable assessment $106,200 × 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 $112,500. 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 121031500
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources Record found

$1,849.25 was recorded for this parcel in Philadelphia's June 2022 delinquency snapshot for 2019–2021. That amount may have been paid, reduced, or increased since; it is not a current payoff figure.

$1,163.59 principal$169.00 interest$75.81 penalty$440.85 other charges
2years recorded 2019–2021tax periods 2021-10-05last payment in snapshot Yesactionable flag Nopayment agreement Nobankruptcy flag Noassessment appeal

The snapshot’s 2022 context used $48,400 total assessment, $48,400 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 $3,139.05 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.

2015$1,667.17 total · $912.27 principal · $95.79 interest · $63.86 penalty2016$1,471.88 total · $1,270.11 principal · $19.06 interest · $12.70 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.

"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.

The property, on paper

OPA physical field record.

Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
1
Stories
2
Interior
976 sqft livable area
Lot
706 sqft
Exterior condition
Average city code 4
Interior condition
Average city code 4
Quality grade
C- assessor's grade
Zoning
RSA5 city zoning code

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

Block context

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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 23, 2026.

Landlord and residential filings

These are property registrations or landlord filings, not businesses operating at this address.

DONNA BROOKS SAUNDERSInactive

Rental · Initial issue date Apr 6, 2003 · Terminal license date Dec 22, 2012

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 7 dated rows
  1. License terminal eventDONNA BROOKS SAUNDERS: Rental landlord or residential registration marked inactive

    License 244190 · Inactive

    License event. Registration does not prove present operation or storefront occupancy.

  2. ViolationVIOL NONE FOUND

    Case 134286 · Violation 1736166 · Code A-000.0/1 · COMPLIED

    City marked this violation complied with; check the resolution date and live case for what was accepted.

  3. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 134286 · PASSED

    A legacy L&I inspection label. The unit inspected housing for property-maintenance, fire-prevention, and related code compliance; the separate status says how that visit ended. The cited inspection visit was marked passed.

  4. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 134286 · FAILED

    A legacy L&I inspection label. The unit inspected housing for property-maintenance, fire-prevention, and related code compliance; the separate status says how that visit ended. The cited inspection visit was marked failed; later rows may show follow-up or resolution.

  5. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 134286 · FAILED

    A legacy L&I inspection label. The unit inspected housing for property-maintenance, fire-prevention, and related code compliance; the separate status says how that visit ended. The cited inspection visit was marked failed; later rows may show follow-up or resolution.

  6. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 134286 · FAILED

    A legacy L&I inspection label. The unit inspected housing for property-maintenance, fire-prevention, and related code compliance; the separate status says how that visit ended. The cited inspection visit was marked failed; later rows may show follow-up or resolution.

  7. License issue eventDONNA BROOKS SAUNDERS: Rental landlord or residential registration initially issued

    License 244190 · Inactive

    License event. Registration does not prove present operation or storefront occupancy.

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 23, 2026, 2:32 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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