38538612850881

Pennsylvania

Tax DeedpendingSells Sep 15, 2026 · in 3 days

Opening bid

$6,000

Assessed value

$94,100

Market / AVM

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Taxes owed

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Parcel number: 38538612850881
Case number: —
Land use: —
Building: —
Acreage: —
Lot size: —
Year built: —
Owner of record: 94,

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Berks County rules

Sale type: Tax Deed
Redemption: None in most counties for upset/judicial sales; limited redemption (90 days) survives in specific home-rule counties (e.g., Philadelphia, in narrow cases)
Return if redeemed: N/A — outright deed transfer in the large majority of counties
Statute: Pennsylvania Real Estate Tax Sale Law, 72 P.S. §5860.101 et seq.

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Historical comps

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Index 2026-08-01 · 87,879 total recorded outcomes

Liens that survive

Upset Sale conveys subject to certain senior liens/mortgages that may not be discharged; Judicial Sale after court process can eliminate more junior interests. Federal tax liens can survive. Always review sale conditions and run full title search.

Quiet title

Commonly required for marketable insured title after PA tax claim sale, especially after Upset Sale where residual liens and redemption issues may remain.

Verify before you bid

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.

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Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$175,892

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $88,081 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $6,000

Room to bid $169,892

Confidence: medium — ARV derived from assessed value, not comps.

History-guided suggestion

$66,921

Under max by $108,971

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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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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

Assessed $94,100 ÷ 0.3205 assessment ratio. Berks County CLR factor 3.12 (STEB 2025 CLR, effective 2026-07-01 to 2027-06-30); ratio is its reciprocal.

After-repair value: $293,604
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$23,488
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 ~$440/month.: −$2,642
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): −$88,081
Maximum bid: $175,892

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.

AI risk brief

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