CHESTER PA 19013, Pennsylvania
Opening bid
$703
Assessed value
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Market / AVM
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Taxes owed
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Legal description
16 W 5TH ST MISC BLDGS 24 X 71
Physical conditions that affect value and rarely appear on a listing.
Truck traffic and operating hours are the usual complaint.
1% annual chance flood (100-year), with a published base flood elevation. Insurance mandatory with a federally backed loan. Flood insurance will be required for a federally backed mortgage, which is a permanent cost on any resale and can exceed the payment on a low-value parcel.
Active freight track. Noise, vibration and horn use at crossings — check where the nearest crossing is before assuming quiet.
Active freight track on a mainline. Noise, vibration and horn use at crossings — check where the nearest crossing is before assuming quiet.
Quiet neighbour, smaller buyer pool.
Official appraiser / assessor — free, always available. Copy the parcel number if the link opens a search page.
No historical bucket for PA|Tax Deed
No recorded comps yet for this state/sale type. Run deedpilot-copilot import-history --deep and build-history-index.
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This record was compiled from the published sale list. Parcels are pulled, redeemed, and re-priced up to the moment of sale. Confirm the lot is still in the sale, and confirm the opening bid, directly with the county.
Delaware County Tax Claim Bureau ↗Frontage or flood exposure depending on elevation and zone — read this next to the FEMA signal, not on its own.
Ground elevation at the parcel. Compare with the FEMA base flood elevation where one is published.
57 of 1,327 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average.
Renters are the majority here. A retail resale is possible but the investor bid is what sets the floor.
Self-reported median across the whole tract — context for whether a number is plausible, not a comparable and never a bid input.
Tract median household income. Sets what a local buyer can finance.
A mapped public road runs along or beside the parcel.
Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.
Everyday shopping — worth checking on rural parcels, where it can be twenty miles.
Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.
Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.
© 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.