4820 E CIRCLE DR

SWATARA TWP, Pennsylvania, 17111

Tax DeedpendingSells Sep 29, 2026 · 9 days ago

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Beds: 4
Baths: 2
SqFt: 1,144
Lot Size: 39,959
Year Built: 1957
APN: 63-009-002

Property Type: Sfr
Distressed: No
Vacant: No
Owner Type: Individual
Owner Status: Absentee (In State)
Length of Ownership: 7 Years 10 Months
Purchase Method: Cash Purchase
County: Dauphin

Value

Estimated Value: $300,000
County Market Value: $113,800; 2026
Assessed Value: $113,800; 2026

Mortgage & Debt

Open Mortgages: 0
Estimated Balance: $0
Lien Flags: None recorded; RealEstateAPI flags · not a lien search
Tax Delinquent Since: 2024

Last Sale

Public Record: $130,100; 11/16/2018
Document Type: Deed

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $11,564
Bid / Value: 4%; of $300,000
Property Tax 2026: $3,583; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $300,000; 100%
Monthly Rent: $1,870; Suggested rent
Gross Yield: 7.48%
Linked Properties: 5

Opening bid

$11,564

Assessed value

$113,800

Land $24,100Improvement $89,700

Market / AVM

$300,000

Property tax 2026

$3,583

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: GONZALEZ RAFYMAR M MEJIAS LEONARDO FABIAN
Owner 2 Name: Leonardo Mejias
Mailing Address: 1024 Eric Dr, Harrisburg, PA 17110
Owner Type: Individual
Corporate Owned: No

Property Characteristics

Bedrooms: 4

Site & surroundings

Physical conditions that affect value and rarely appear on a listing.

Sale Date	Recorded	Amount	Document	Doc #	Arm's Length	Method	Buyer	Seller
11/16/2018	11/19/2018	$130,100	Deed	20180029055	Yes	Cash Purchase	Rafymar M Curvelo Gonzalez, Leonardo Fabian Mejias	Lillian L Carter

Correctional or waste facility (5 nearby)0.4 mi from parcel centre

Persistent effect on the buyer pool regardless of any measurable nuisance.

PPL354 ft from parcel centre

Where a line crosses a parcel there is usually a recorded easement restricting what can be built under it — check the deed, not the map.

Union Square Industrial Park0.6 mi from parcel centre

Truck traffic and operating hours are the usual complaint.

Industrial land (2 nearby)0.6 mi from parcel centre

Truck traffic and operating hours are the usual complaint.

Sloped ground — about 10.9% grade

Gentle grade — a stepped foundation or some cut and fill on a build.

Context

6% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 227.01

99 of 1,696 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average.

Tract median home value $207,300

Self-reported median across the whole tract — context for whether a number is plausible, not a comparable and never a bid input.

Median household income $84,375

Tract median household income. Sets what a local buyer can finance.

FEMA flood zone X

Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.

Elevation 501 ft

Ground elevation at the parcel. Compare with the FEMA base flood elevation where one is published.

Bishop McDevitt High School0.5 mi from parcel centre

Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.

Lawnton Elementary0.5 mi from parcel centre

Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.

Road access — East Circle Drive23 ft from parcel centre

A mapped public road runs along or beside the parcel.

Kohl Memorial Park (2 nearby)0.3 mi from parcel centre

Public green space.

Lingle Park0.5 mi from parcel centre

Public green space.

7-Eleven0.7 mi from parcel centre

Everyday shopping — worth checking on rural parcels, where it can be twenty miles.

South Side School0.7 mi from parcel centre

Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.

Laliguras International Grocery0.8 mi from parcel centre

Everyday shopping — worth checking on rural parcels, where it can be twenty miles.

Giant0.9 mi from parcel centre

Everyday shopping — worth checking on rural parcels, where it can be twenty miles.

69% owner-occupied

Owner-occupied majority, which usually means a retail resale is possible.

© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Flood zones from FEMA, elevation from USGS, tract statistics from the US Census. Proximity is measured from the parcel’s recorded location, which for most parcels is an assessor centroid rather than a boundary — treat these as figures to verify on a site visit, not as survey distances.

Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$179,800

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $90,000 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $11,564

Room to bid $168,236

Confidence: medium — ARV from a provider market estimate, not comps.

History-guided suggestion

$71,667

Under max by $108,133

≤ oracle maxBid

Co-pilot target using recorded auction history. Never above your maximum bid.

History sample

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Median sold

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No historical bucket for PA|Tax Deed; suggestion uses oracle only.

Your assumptions

After-repair value (ARV)

Override the derived estimate with real comps

Rehab budget

You cannot inspect before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition

Known surviving liens

Municipal code enforcement, special assessments, federal tax liens

Target margin — 30%

Required profit as a share of ARV. 30% is a common floor for tax-sale flips.

How that number is built

Provider market estimate of $300,000. This is an as-is valuation, not an after-repair one — enter your own comparable-sales figure if the property needs work.

After-repair value: $300,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$24,000
Rehabassumed No rehab budget entered — assumed $0. Tax-sale parcels are sold unseen and un-inspected; this is rarely correct.: −$0
Quiet title (required)assumed Midpoint of the typical PA range ($1,500–$5,000, ~4 months).: −$3,250
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical PA recording and deed issuance cost.: −$250
Holding costs (6 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$450/month.: −$2,700
Surviving liensassumed Assumed $0 — not verified. Municipal code-enforcement liens, special assessments, and federal tax liens can survive the sale.: −$0
Target profit (30% of ARV): −$90,000
Maximum bid: $179,800

Before you bid

Rehab is assumed to be $0. You cannot inspect these properties before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition.
Surviving liens assumed $0. UPSET SALE vs JUDICIAL SALE is the single most important distinction in Pennsylvania and this row cannot express it. An upset sale (72 P.S. §§ 5860.601-609) conveys subject to existing mortgages, judgments and liens, which are NOT divested; a judicial sale (§§ 5860.610-612) is ordered free and clear. Establish which one a parcel is in before treating survivingLiens as zero.
Pennsylvania county assessments run against base years that can be decades stale, and the spread is extreme — Bucks assesses at about 5.6% of market and Schuylkill at 100%, an 18x range inside one state. The Common Level Ratio is a county MEDIAN published for realty transfer tax equalisation, not a per-parcel appraisal, so deriving ARV from it multiplies any error in that one parcel's assessment by the factor: in Bucks a $50,000 assessment derives an ARV near $893,000. Treat a derived ARV in a high-factor county as a research lead, not a valuation, and get comparable sales before bidding.
PA has 67 counties on a different assessment ratio (42001, 42003, 42005, 42007, 42009, 42011, 42013, 42015, 42017, 42019, 42021, 42023, 42025, 42027, 42029, 42031, 42033, 42035, 42037, 42039, 42041, 42043, 42045, 42047, 42049, 42051, 42053, 42055, 42057, 42059, 42061, 42063, 42065, 42067, 42069, 42071, 42073, 42075, 42077, 42079, 42081, 42083, 42085, 42087, 42089, 42091, 42093, 42095, 42097, 42099, 42101, 42103, 42105, 42107, 42109, 42111, 42113, 42115, 42117, 42119, 42121, 42123, 42125, 42127, 42129, 42131, 42133). No FIPS was supplied, so the statewide ratio was used — pass `fips` if this parcel is in one of them.

4820 E CIRCLE DR

Value

Mortgage & Debt

Last Sale

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

4820 E CIRCLE DR

Value

Mortgage & Debt

Last Sale

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

Building Size

Land/Location Information

Tax Assessment Information

Last Arm's Length Sale Information

Recording Information

Buyer/Seller Information

Distress Flags

Listing

Area

Fair Market Rents

Tax Assessment Information

Sale History

Site & surroundings

Context

County records

Dauphin County rules

Historical comps

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