2026 assessment
$130K
OPA value, not a listing price
House report
741 N 38th St
Research this property with Analyst →3 bd1 ba2 stories1,098 sqftRSA5built 1925
Property at a glanceHouse
Owner-occupancy signal
ZIP 19104 area
University City · West Powelton
700 block of N 38th St
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$57K 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$57K 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$57K 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$64K 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$66K 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$66K 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$66K 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$97K 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$97K 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$130K 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$130K 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$133K 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 ↗
- Permit · 2020-01-23Roof Covering ReplacementThis permit category usually covers construction, repair, alteration, addition, or occupancy work. The approved scope—not the short category—defines what was authorized, and issuance alone does not prove completion.Philadelphia construction and repair permits ↗
- Permit · 2020-11-23AlterationsThis permit category usually covers construction, repair, alteration, addition, or occupancy work. The approved scope—not the short category—defines what was authorized, and issuance alone does not prove completion.Philadelphia construction and repair permits ↗
Property assessmentBlock median & rangeZIP 19104 (University City · West Powelton) medianAssessmentPermit
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.
Every dated record2 events · exact dates, newest first
- PermitAlterations
- PermitRoof Covering Replacement
Flags: $23K recorded in the June 2022 delinquency snapshot; verify current balance · historical tax ledger through 2016 recorded $16K with a lien entry. Informational only. Not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).
Verify the public record
Property tax
$420/year estimated property tax
2026 taxable assessment $30,000 × 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 $133,000. It is not the 2026 billed-year value.
Payments, credits, interest, and the current amount due are maintained by the City.
OPA 2430940002026 OPA removes $100,000 from the taxable assessment through the owner-occupant exemption.
Historical delinquency sources Record found
$22,963.36 was recorded for this parcel in Philadelphia's June 2022 delinquency snapshot for 1996–2021. That amount may have been paid, reduced, or increased since; it is not a current payoff figure.
$9,813.39 principal$9,612.04 interest$693.81 penalty$2,844.12 other charges
The snapshot’s 2022 context used $66,000 total assessment, $66,000 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 $15,555.37 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.
1996$1,028.97 total · $194.80 principal · $400.81 interest · $15.73 penalty1997$714.95 total · $234.16 principal · $403.93 interest · $16.39 penalty1998$378.35 total · $124.56 principal · $203.65 interest · $8.72 penalty1999$670.27 total · $234.16 principal · $361.78 interest · $16.39 penalty2001$474.77 total · $175.73 principal · $239.87 interest · $12.30 penalty2002$890.55 total · $349.74 principal · $445.92 interest · $24.48 penalty2003$677.59 total · $274.61 principal · $325.41 interest · $19.22 penalty2004$858.71 total · $364.94 principal · $399.61 interest · $25.55 penalty2005$643.57 total · $282.96 principal · $284.37 interest · $19.81 penalty2006$789.07 total · $364.94 principal · $333.92 interest · $25.55 penalty2007$754.26 total · $364.94 principal · $301.08 interest · $25.55 penalty2008$771.81 total · $392.31 principal · $288.35 interest · $27.46 penalty2009$734.38 total · $392.31 principal · $253.04 interest · $27.46 penalty2010$696.95 total · $392.31 principal · $217.73 interest · $27.46 penalty2011$722.71 total · $431.14 principal · $200.48 interest · $30.18 penalty2012$707.02 total · $447.75 principal · $167.91 interest · $31.34 penalty2013$687.43 total · $463.85 principal · $132.20 interest · $32.47 penalty2014$1,259.39 total · $870.67 principal · $169.78 interest · $60.95 penalty2015$1,176.32 total · $870.67 principal · $91.42 interest · $60.95 penalty2016$918.30 total · $760.61 principal · $11.40 interest · $7.61 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.
Marked vacant, but it just sold
The assessor's condition code says vacant, yet a $49,100 sale was recorded in 2025. One side of the record is stale — condition codes come from drive-by field visits that can lag years behind.
Assessment and sale price disagree hard
Assessed at $133K, but it traded for $49,100 in 2025 — a 2.7× gap. Could be a non-market deed the record doesn't label, or an assessment that hasn't caught up.
The property, on paper
OPA physical field record.
Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
1
Stories
2
Interior
1,098 sqft
livable area
Lot
1,180 sqft
Basement
Full, unfinished
city code C
Central air
No
Exterior condition
Below average
city code 5
Above averageBelow average
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.
Block context
700 block of N 38th St. Compare parcels, ownership, and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 739 N 38th St · 743 N 38th St
L&I licenses checked through Jul 24, 2026
No business or residential license records
No business license or residential registration matched this OPA parcel in the latest City data.
Open every source row 2 dated rows
- PermitAlterations
Permit PP-2020-013472 · Completed
Underfloor plumbing, toilet, lav and tub PPC 2018 (Additional permit made be required)
- PermitRoof Covering Replacement
Permit 1043866 · Expired
Roof replacement - install a single ply roof system. STRUCTURAL ALTERATION OR REPAIR IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED UNDER THIS PERMIT. PROHIBITED STRUCTURAL WORK INCLUDES ANY MODIFICATION TO EXTERIOR WALLS, PARTY WALLS, FLOOR/ROOF FRAMING OR FOUNDATIONS; UNDERPINNING AND EXCAVATIONS (I.E. DIGGING IN BASEMENT).
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 25, 2026, 12:11 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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