The Block Report

House report

826 S 56th St

1,475 sqftRSA5built 1925

Property at a glanceHouse

Owner-occupancy signal

2026 assessment
$156K 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$161K200820122016202020242027
Property assessmentBlock median & rangeZIP 19143 (Cedar Park · Kingsessing) medianAssessmentL&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 record10 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. L&I violationLICENSE-VAC RES BLDG (vacant residential building license required)
  6. L&I violationPROSECUTION INFO
  7. InspectionHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)
  8. InspectionBRU INSP
  9. L&I violationEXT A-CLEAN WEEDS/PLANTS (Cut or remove weeds and overgrowth from the exterior area)
  10. InspectionBRU INSP

Flags: $54K recorded in the June 2022 delinquency snapshot; verify current balance · historical tax ledger through 2016 recorded $35K with a lien entry · latest deed has shared-name parties; relationship unverified. Informational only. Not investment advice or a consumer report (FCRA).

Verify the public record

$2,188/year estimated property tax

2026 taxable assessment $156,300 × 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 $160,800. 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 463224200
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources Record found

$54,259.73 was recorded for this parcel in Philadelphia's June 2022 delinquency snapshot for 1997–2021. That amount may have been paid, reduced, or increased since; it is not a current payoff figure.

$22,127.63 principal$21,012.29 interest$1,535.66 penalty$9,584.15 other charges
25years recorded 1997–2021tax periods 2008-07-07last payment in snapshot Yesactionable flag Nopayment agreement Nobankruptcy flag Noassessment appeal

The snapshot’s 2022 context used $82,600 total assessment, $82,600 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 $34,813.33 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.

1997$1,448.84 total · $433.69 principal · $748.11 interest · $30.36 penalty1998$1,790.32 total · $553.50 principal · $904.97 interest · $38.75 penalty1999$1,731.54 total · $553.50 principal · $855.16 interest · $38.75 penalty2000$1,672.76 total · $553.50 principal · $805.34 interest · $38.75 penalty2001$1,613.98 total · $553.50 principal · $755.53 interest · $38.75 penalty2002$1,630.93 total · $580.87 principal · $740.61 interest · $40.66 penalty2003$1,990.00 total · $739.00 principal · $875.71 interest · $51.73 penalty2004$2,097.99 total · $811.99 principal · $889.13 interest · $56.84 penalty2005$2,011.76 total · $811.99 principal · $816.05 interest · $56.84 penalty2006$1,925.52 total · $811.99 principal · $742.97 interest · $56.84 penalty2007$1,839.29 total · $811.99 principal · $669.89 interest · $56.84 penalty2008$1,882.63 total · $872.82 principal · $641.53 interest · $61.10 penalty2009$1,789.93 total · $872.82 principal · $562.97 interest · $61.10 penalty2010$1,697.24 total · $872.82 principal · $484.42 interest · $61.10 penalty2011$1,760.98 total · $959.20 principal · $446.02 interest · $67.14 penalty2012$1,722.15 total · $996.16 principal · $373.56 interest · $69.73 penalty2013$1,673.63 total · $1,031.98 principal · $294.11 interest · $72.24 penalty2014$1,677.98 total · $1,055.59 principal · $205.84 interest · $73.89 penalty2015$1,565.88 total · $1,055.59 principal · $110.84 interest · $73.89 penalty2016$1,289.98 total · $1,102.69 principal · $16.54 interest · $11.03 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.

Interior
1,475 sqft livable area
Lot
1,266 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

800 block of S 56th St. Compare parcels, ownership, and public-record history.

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Next door: 824 S 56th St  ·  828 S 56th 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 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 10 dated rows
  1. InvestigationPRECOURT (likely: pre-court compliance inspection)

    Case 203373 · CLOSED

    A follow-up before or during enforcement escalation; confirm the case sequence in the City file. City marked the record closed; open the case for the closing reason.

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

    Case 203373 · 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 203373 · 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 203373 · 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. ViolationLICENSE-VAC RES BLDG (vacant residential building license required)

    Case 203373 · Violation 3071817 · Code PM-102.4/2 · COMPLIED

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

  6. ViolationPROSECUTION INFO

    Case 203373 · Violation 3071816 · Code A-503.1/1 · COMPLIED

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

  7. InvestigationHCEU INSP (Housing Code Enforcement Unit inspection)

    Case 203373 · 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.

  8. InvestigationBRU INSP

    Case 177683 · PASSED

    The cited inspection visit was marked passed.

  9. ViolationEXT A-CLEAN WEEDS/PLANTS (Cut or remove weeds and overgrowth from the exterior area)

    Case 177683 · Violation 1088046 · Code PM-302.3/1 · COMPEXCP

  10. InvestigationBRU INSP

    Case 177683 · FAILED

    The cited inspection visit was marked failed; later rows may show follow-up or resolution.

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 23, 2026, 8:53 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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