CHESTER CITY, Pennsylvania
Opening bid
$595
Assessed value
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Market / AVM
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Taxes owed
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Legal description
2 STY BLDG 40 X 100
Physical conditions that affect value and rarely appear on a listing.
Active freight track on a mainline. Noise, vibration and horn use at crossings — check where the nearest crossing is before assuming quiet.
Persistent effect on the buyer pool regardless of any measurable nuisance.
Where a line crosses a parcel there is usually a recorded easement restricting what can be built under it — check the deed, not the map.
Where a line crosses a parcel there is usually a recorded easement restricting what can be built under it — check the deed, not the map.
Constant road noise from an arterial route. Frontage cuts residential appeal and can raise commercial appeal; which one depends on zoning.
Official appraiser / assessor — free, always available. Copy the parcel number if the link opens a search page.
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Index 2026-08-01 · 87,879 total recorded outcomes
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 ↗Truck traffic and operating hours are the usual complaint.
Truck traffic and operating hours are the usual complaint.
Transformer hum, and a persistent resale objection whatever the engineering says.
Truck traffic and operating hours are the usual complaint.
Odour travels much further than noise and is seasonal.
Odour travels much further than noise and is seasonal.
228 of 941 units sit empty outside seasonal use. High vacancy is an exit-risk signal rather than a price signal — the question is whether there is a buyer at any price, not what the price is.
Quiet neighbour, smaller buyer pool.
Where a line crosses a parcel there is usually a recorded easement restricting what can be built under it — check the deed, not the map.
Active freight track. Noise, vibration and horn use at crossings — check where the nearest crossing is before assuming quiet.
Active freight track. Noise, vibration and horn use at crossings — check where the nearest crossing is before assuming quiet.
Odour travels much further than noise and is seasonal.
Frontage or flood exposure depending on elevation and zone — read this next to the FEMA signal, not on its own.
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.
Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.
Ground elevation at the parcel. Compare with the FEMA base flood elevation where one is published.
Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.
Public green space.
Public green space.
Public green space.
Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.
Catchment is set by district boundary, not by distance.
A mapped public road runs along or beside the parcel.
Everyday shopping — worth checking on rural parcels, where it can be twenty miles.
Everyday shopping — worth checking on rural parcels, where it can be twenty miles.
Everyday shopping — worth checking on rural parcels, where it can be twenty miles.
© 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.