314 Walnut St

Lykens, Pennsylvania, 17048

Tax DeedpendingSells Sep 29, 2026 · 10 days ago

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Beds: 2
SqFt: 1,092
Lot Size: 6,183
Year Built: 1900
APN: 69-006-169

Property Type: Sfr
Distressed: No
Vacant: No
Owner Type: Individual
Owner Status: Absentee (In State)
Purchase Method: Cash Purchase
County: Dauphin

Value

Estimated Value: $108,000
County Market Value: $22,000; 2026
Assessed Value: $22,000; 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: $2,000; 06/01/2015
Document Type: Grant Deed

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $3,095
Bid / Value: 3%; of $108,000
Property Tax 2026: $813; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $108,000; 100%
Monthly Rent: $1,228; Suggested rent
Gross Yield: 13.64%
Linked Properties: 2

Opening bid

$3,095

Assessed value

$22,000

Land $8,400Improvement $13,600

Market / AVM

$108,000

Property tax 2026

$813

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: Rodney Collins
Owner 2 Name: Kelly Boyer
Mailing Address: 590 Bowman St, Millersburg, PA 17061
Owner Type: Individual
Corporate Owned: No

Property Characteristics

Bedrooms: 2
Construction Type

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
06/01/2015	06/18/2015	$2,000	Grant Deed	0000014820	No	Cash Purchase	Rodney E Collins, Kelly M Boyer	Foster Paul G

Wastewater treatment plant0.9 mi from parcel centre

Odour is prevailing-wind dependent and worst in summer.

Beaver County Jail1.5 mi from parcel centre

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

Context

Watercourse0.2 mi from parcel centre

Frontage or flood exposure depending on elevation and zone — read this next to the FEMA signal, not on its own.

Elevation 935 ft

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

10% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 6037

200 of 2,039 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average.

Tract median home value $143,400

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 $65,625

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

Road access — Walnut Street23 ft from parcel centre

A mapped public road runs along or beside the parcel.

Crest and Essex Park0.5 mi from parcel centre

Public green space.

Byersdale Park0.5 mi from parcel centre

Public green space.

ALDI0.6 mi from parcel centre

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

Sheetz0.7 mi from parcel centre

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

Speedway0.8 mi from parcel centre

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

Quigley Catholic High School (CLOSED)1.4 mi from parcel centre

Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.

73% 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

$62,488

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $32,400 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $3,095

Room to bid $59,393

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

History-guided suggestion

$24,352

Under max by $38,136

≤ 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 $108,000. 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: $108,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$8,640
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 ~$162/month.: −$972
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): −$32,400
Maximum bid: $62,488

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.

314 Walnut St

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314 Walnut St

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Mortgage & Debt

Last Sale

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

Building Size

Land/Location Information

Tax Assessment Information

Last Non-Arm's Length Ownership Transfer

Recording Information

Buyer/Seller Information

Last Arm's Length Sale Information

Recording Information

Buyer/Seller Information

Distress Flags

Area

Fair Market Rents

Tax Assessment Information

Sale History

Site & surroundings

Context

County records

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