House report

5840 Washington Ave

3 bd1 ba1,420 sqftRSA5built 1925

Property at a glanceHouse

Owner-occupancy signal

2026 assessment
$163K 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$100K$200KZIP 19143 (Cedar Park · Kingsessing) median$165K200720112015201920232027
Property assessmentBlock median & rangeZIP 19143 (Cedar Park · Kingsessing) medianAssessmentDeed / saleL&I violationInspection

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.

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Every dated record13 events · exact dates, newest first
  1. InspectionPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)
  2. InspectionPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)
  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. L&I violationLICENSE-VAC RES BLDG (vacant residential building license required)
  8. Deed / saleDeed / sale $45K
  9. InspectionHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)
  10. L&I violationEXT S-EXPOSED SURFACES MAINTAI
  11. L&I violationVACANT BLDG UNSECURED COUNT
  12. InspectionHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)
  13. Deed / saleDeed / sale $87K

Flags: historical tax ledger through 2016 recorded $1K with a lien entry. Informational only. Not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

Verify the public record

$2,284/year estimated property tax

2026 taxable assessment $163,200 × 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 $165,000. 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 033115000
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources Record found

This parcel did not match the June 2022 delinquency snapshot. That absence does not confirm the account is current today.

A separate historical parcel ledger ending in 2016 records $1,334.76 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.

2016$1,334.76 total · $1,018.98 principal · $15.28 interest · $10.19 penalty

For a purchase, refinance, or closing, request the City’s official Property Payoff statement in Tax Center under “More options.”

The property, on paper

OPA physical field record.

Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
1
Interior
1,420 sqft livable area
Lot
1,280 sqft
Basement
Full city code D
Heat
Hot water / radiators city code B
Central air
No
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

5800 block of Washington Ave. Compare parcels, ownership, and public-record history.

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Next door: 5838 Washington Ave  ·  5842 Washington Ave

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.

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 13 dated rows
  1. InvestigationPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)

    Case 368782 · FAILED

    A follow-up before or during enforcement escalation; confirm the case sequence in the City file. The cited inspection visit was marked failed; later rows may show follow-up or resolution.

  2. InvestigationPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)

    Case 368782 · FAILED

    A follow-up before or during enforcement escalation; confirm the case sequence in the City file. The cited inspection visit was marked failed; later rows may show follow-up or resolution.

  3. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 368782 · CLOSED

    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. City marked the record closed; open the case for the closing reason.

  4. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 368782 · 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 317686 · CLOSED

    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. City marked the record closed; open the case for the closing reason.

  6. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 368782 · 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. ViolationLICENSE-VAC RES BLDG (vacant residential building license required)

    Case 368782 · Violation 3486724 · Code PM-102.4/2 · CLOSEDCASE

    This usually records a requirement to obtain a Vacant Structure License for an unoccupied residential building. Check later license and compliance rows because it does not establish present vacancy or an unresolved violation. City marked the case closed; that does not mean the original condition never existed.

  8. Recorded transfer$45K transfer

    2013

  9. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 317686 · 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.

  10. ViolationEXT S-EXPOSED SURFACES MAINTAI

    Case 317686 · Violation 2410296 · Code PM-304.5/2 · CLOSEDCASE

    City marked the case closed; that does not mean the original condition never existed.

  11. ViolationVACANT BLDG UNSECURED COUNT

    Case 317686 · Violation 2410297 · Code PM-306.2/1 · CLOSEDCASE

    City marked the case closed; that does not mean the original condition never existed.

  12. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 317686 · 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.

  13. Recorded transfer$87K transfer

    2007

Where this comes from

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 23, 2026, 9:55 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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