1215 Fishburn Rd

Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033

Tax DeedpendingSells Sep 29, 2026 · 2 days ago

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Opening bid

$49,484

Assessed value

$941,600

Land $478,200Improvement $463,400

Market / AVM

$941,600

Taxes owed

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Parcel number: 24-032-010
Case number: —
Land use: Other / Unknown
Building: 17,001 sqft
Acreage: 5.48
Lot size: 238,778 sqft
Year built: 1886
Owner of record: Fishburn Evangelical United Methodist

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Aerial view of 1215 Fishburn Rd — the parcel

Aerial view of 1215 Fishburn Rd — what is around it

Site & surroundings

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

Fishburn Road20 ft from parcel centre
Constant road noise from an arterial route. Frontage cuts residential appeal and can raise commercial appeal; which one depends on zoning.
Cemetery0 ft from parcel centre
Quiet neighbour, smaller buyer pool.
Correctional or waste facility (5 nearby)1.4 mi from parcel centre
Persistent effect on the buyer pool regardless of any measurable nuisance.

Context

FEMA flood zone X
Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.
2% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 241.02
31 of 1,567 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average.

Property detail

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Summary(11)

Estimated equity
Id	179,525,652
Flood zone	Yes
Free clear	Yes
High equity	Yes
Property type	OTHER
Equity percent	100
Flood zone type	X
Estimated value	$941,600
Last update date	2026-04-03 00:00:00 UTC

County records

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Dauphin County rules

Sale type: Tax Deed
Redemption: None in most counties for upset/judicial sales; limited redemption (90 days) survives in specific home-rule counties (e.g., Philadelphia, in narrow cases)
Return if redeemed: N/A — outright deed transfer in the large majority of counties
Statute: Pennsylvania Real Estate Tax Sale Law, 72 P.S. §5860.101 et seq.

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Historical comps

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Liens that survive

Upset: mortgages/judgments typically survive. Judicial: free and clear of most liens after proper notice; analyze federal tax liens separately. Strict RETSL notice compliance required for valid sale.

Quiet title

Common for Upset purchases; often still used after Judicial for insurance comfort.

Verify before you bid

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Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$571,818

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $282,480 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $49,484

Room to bid $522,334

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

History-guided suggestion

$235,544

Under max by $336,273

≤ oracle maxBid

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

History sample

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Median sold

—

p(redeem) prior

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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 $941,600. 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: $941,600
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$75,328
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 ~$1,412/month.: −$8,474
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): −$282,480
Maximum bid: $571,818

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.

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Site & surroundings

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

Fishburn Road20 ft from parcel centre

Constant road noise from an arterial route. Frontage cuts residential appeal and can raise commercial appeal; which one depends on zoning.

Cemetery0 ft from parcel centre

Quiet neighbour, smaller buyer pool.

Correctional or waste facility (5 nearby)1.4 mi from parcel centre

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

Context

FEMA flood zone X

Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.

2% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 241.02

31 of 1,567 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average.

179,525,652

Flood zone

Yes

Free clear

Yes

High equity

Yes

Property type

OTHER

Equity percent

100

Flood zone type

Estimated value

$941,600

Last update date

2026-04-03 00:00:00 UTC

Estimated equity

Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$571,818

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $282,480 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $49,484

Room to bid $522,334

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

History-guided suggestion

$235,544

Under max by $336,273

≤ oracle maxBid

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

History sample

—

Median sold

—

p(redeem) prior

—

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 $941,600. 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: $941,600
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$75,328
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 ~$1,412/month.: −$8,474
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): −$282,480
Maximum bid: $571,818

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.

Apn	24-032-010
Land use	Other / Unknown
Lot acres	5.48
Census block	1002
Census tract	024102
Property use	Religious, Church, Worship (Synagogue, Temple, Parsonage)
Lot depth feet	811.6
Lot width feet	479.7
Lot square feet	238,778
Property class	The use for the property cannot be determined or is not associated with the other Property Use Groups
Apn unformatted	24032010
Census block group	2

Year	2,026
Tax amount	$30,197
Property id	179,525,652
Market value	$941,600
Assessed value	$941,600
Assessment year	2,026
Market land value	$478,200
Assessed land value	$478,200
Tax delinquent year	2024
Market improvement value	$463,400
Assessed improvement value	$463,400

Owner1 type	Other
Owner2 type	Other
Mail address · zip	17033
Mail address · city	Hershey
Mail address · fips	42043
Mail address · zip4	9744
Mail address · house	1215
Mail address · label	1215 Fishburn Rd, Hershey, PA 17033
Mail address · state	PA
Mail address · county	Dauphin County
Mail address · street	Fishburn
Mail address · address	1215 Fishburn Rd
Owner1 full name	Fishburn Evangelical United Methodist
Owner1 last name	Fishburn Evangelical United Methodist

Fmr year	2023
Hud area code	METRO25420M25420
Hud area name	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA MSA
Median income	$66,377
Fmr efficiency	$900
Fmr one bedroom	$1,030
Fmr two bedroom	$1,300
Fmr four bedroom	$1,750
Fmr three bedroom	$1,660

Address · zip	17033
Address · city	Hershey
Address · fips	42043
Address · zip4	9744
Address · house	1215
Address · label	1215 Fishburn Rd, Hershey, PA 17033
Address · state	PA
Address · county	Dauphin County
Address · street	Fishburn
Address · address	1215 Fishburn Rd
Address · street type	Rd
Address · carrier route	R002
Address · jurisdiction	Dauphin County
Address · congressional district	10
Deck area	0
Latitude	40.265768972824965
Pool area	0
Longitude	-76.64327768582987
Patio area	0
Year built	1,886
Rooms count	0
Units count	0
Heating type	Central
Property use	Religious, Church, Worship (Synagogue, Temple, Parsonage)
Basement type	PARTIALLY FINISHED
Lot square feet	149,846
Parking spaces	0
Buildings count	2
Property use code	336
Garage square feet	0
Living square feet	17,001
Partial bathrooms	0
Basement square feet	21,482
Building square feet	17,001
Price per square foot	0
Air conditioning type	Central
Parcel account number	240320100000000
Plumbing fixtures count	0
Basement finished percent	0
Air conditioning available	Yes
Tax exemption homeowner flag	Yes
Basement square feet finished	7,208
Basement square feet unfinished	3,533

Ids	179518404, 179525652
Total owned	2
Total value	$1,461,600
Total equity	$1,461,600
Purchased last6mos	0
Purchased last12mos	0