1916 N 3RD ST

CITY OF HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, 17102

Tax DeedpendingSells Sep 29, 2026 · 10 days ago

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Beds: 4
Baths: 1
SqFt: 2,232
Lot Size: 1,555
Year Built: 1908
APN: 11-008-011

Property Type: Sfr
Distressed: No
Vacant: Yes
Owner Type: Company
Purchase Method: Cash Purchase
County: Dauphin

Value

Estimated Value: $153,000
County Market Value: $44,200; 2026
Assessed Value: $44,200; 2026

Mortgage & Debt

Open Mortgages: 1
Estimated Balance: $29,775
Lien Flags: None recorded; RealEstateAPI flags · not a lien search
Tax Delinquent Since: 2024

Last Sale

Public Record: $27,500; 10/17/2012
Document Type: Grant Deed

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $18,810
Bid / Value: 12%; of $153,000
Property Tax 2026: $2,299; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $132,790; 86%
Monthly Rent: $1,650; Suggested rent
Gross Yield: 12.94%

Opening bid

$18,810

Assessed value

$44,200

Land $11,200Improvement $33,000

Market / AVM

$153,000

Property tax 2026

$2,299

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: MAKESPACE LLC
Mailing Address: 1916 N 3rd St, Harrisburg, PA 17102
Owner Type: Company
Corporate Owned: Yes

Property Characteristics

Bedrooms: 4
Total Bathrooms: 1
Partial Bathrooms

Site & surroundings

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

Recorded	Position	Amount	Type	Lender	Term	Maturity	Doc #
10/19/2012	First	$29,775	Unknown	Wci Partners Lp	120	10/17/2022	20120031163

Recorded	Position	Amount	Type	Lender	Term	Maturity	Doc #	Open
10/19/2012	First	$29,775	Unknown	Wci Partners Lp	120	10/17/2022	20120031163	Yes

Sale Date	Recorded	Amount	Document	Doc #	Arm's Length	Method	Buyer	Seller
10/17/2012	10/19/2012	$27,500	Grant Deed	0000031162	Yes	Cash Purchase	Makespace Llc	Wci Partners Lp
08/24/2011	08/29/2011	$21,515	Grant Deed	0000023533	Yes	Cash Purchase	Wci Partners Lp	Lowers,Oanh
01/24/2007	01/31/2007	$29,000	Grant Deed	0000004466	Yes	Cash Purchase

Grove Cemetery551 ft from parcel centre

Quiet neighbour, smaller buyer pool.

Runway1.6 mi from parcel centre

Approach paths extend far beyond the runway itself — check which end the parcel is under.

Cemetery823 ft from parcel centre

Quiet neighbour, smaller buyer pool.

Saint Joseph Cemetery0.3 mi from parcel centre

Quiet neighbour, smaller buyer pool.

Youngstown Line (3 nearby)0.4 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.

Pittsburgh Subdivision0.5 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.

Railway line0.5 mi from parcel centre

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

Sloped ground — about 11.7% grade

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

Context

FEMA flood zone X

Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.

13% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 6014

221 of 1,641 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average.

Tract median home value $110,700

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 $56,250

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

Elevation 919 ft

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

Daugherty Township World War 2 Memorial988 ft from parcel centre

Public green space.

© 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

$89,983

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $45,900 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $18,810

Room to bid $71,173

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

History-guided suggestion

$43,680

Under max by $46,303

≤ 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 $153,000. 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: $153,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$12,240
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 ~$230/month.: −$1,377
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): −$45,900
Maximum bid: $89,983

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.

1916 N 3RD ST

Value

Mortgage & Debt

Last Sale

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

1916 N 3RD ST

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

First Mortgage Information

Distress Flags

Area

Fair Market Rents

Tax Assessment Information

Open Mortgages

Mortgage History

Sale History

Site & surroundings

Context

County records

Dauphin County rules

Historical comps

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