231 N FIFTH ST

NEWPORT BOROUGH, Pennsylvania, 17074

Tax DeedpendingSells Sep 29, 2026 · 11 days ago

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SqFt: 1,040
Lot Size: 2,363
Year Built: 1900
APN: 190,046.02-145.000

Property Type: Sfr
Distressed: No
Vacant: No
Owner Type: Individual
Owner Status: Owner Occupied
County: Perry

Value

Estimated Value: $138,000
County Market Value: $115,100; 2026
Assessed Value: $115,100; 2026

Mortgage & Debt

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

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $6,009
Bid / Value: 4%; of $138,000
Property Tax 2026: $294; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $138,000; 100%

Opening bid

$6,009

Assessed value

$115,100

Land $37,000Improvement $78,100

Market / AVM

$138,000

Property tax 2026

$294

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: CAMPBELL, BART L & MICHELE A
Mailing Address: 231 N 5th St, Newport, PA 17074
Owner Type: Individual
Corporate Owned: No

Property Characteristics

Basement: No Basement
Number of Stories: 2

Site & surroundings

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

Recorded	Amount	Type	Lender	Term	Maturity	Doc #	Open
06/18/2007	$26,800	Unknown	The First National Bank Of Newport	180	06/08/2022	200705455	No

Union (Hillside) Cemetery932 ft from parcel centre

Quiet neighbour, smaller buyer pool.

Hillside Cemetery984 ft from parcel centre

Quiet neighbour, smaller buyer pool.

Sunbury Line0.4 mi from parcel centre

Active freight track on a mainline. Noise, vibration and horn use at crossings — check where the nearest crossing is before assuming quiet.

Sloped ground — about 12.9% grade

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

Context

Elevation 594 ft

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

FEMA flood zone X

Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.

11% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 513

164 of 1,497 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average.

Tract median home value $206,900

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 $60,972

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

Ralph Wolfgang Memorial Park0.2 mi from parcel centre

Public green space.

Tank School0.6 mi from parcel centre

Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.

Road access — North Fifth Street16 ft from parcel centre

A mapped public road runs along or beside the parcel.

Weis0.3 mi from parcel centre

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

Sunoco0.3 mi from parcel centre

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

Cara Park0.4 mi from parcel centre

Public green space.

Park0.4 mi from parcel centre

Public green space.

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

$80,818

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $41,400 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $6,009

Room to bid $74,809

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

History-guided suggestion

$32,700

Under max by $48,118

≤ 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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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 $138,000. 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: $138,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$11,040
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 ~$207/month.: −$1,242
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): −$41,400
Maximum bid: $80,818

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.

231 N FIFTH ST

Value

Mortgage & Debt

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Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

231 N FIFTH ST

Value

Mortgage & Debt

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

Building Size

Land/Location Information

Tax Assessment Information

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Area

Fair Market Rents

Tax Assessment Information

Mortgage History

Site & surroundings

Context

County records

Perry County rules

Historical comps

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