4900 block of Cedar Ave

How the block compares

The typical home here is $560K — about 2.5× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19143 median of $152K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19143 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 55 reported crimes (15 violent) and 150 resident 311 requests to the city.

Philadelphia Police incident reports and 311 service requests within 200m, trailing 12 months. Reported location, not necessarily where an incident occurred.

Schools

The public schools this block is zoned for — its official School District of Philadelphia catchments.

Catchment assignments from the School District of Philadelphia via City of Philadelphia open data. Confirm with the District before enrollment decisions.

What it's worth, and where taxes are going

• $560K typical home, up +135% since 2016
• Tax bill $3,064 to $6,899 a year, +8%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $24M assessed, $288,975/yr to the city, about $6,568 per home

Who really pays

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:

• 4931 Cedar Avetax-abated new construction0.67%$5,105/yr on $760K
• 4946 Cedar Avetax-abated new construction0.76%$5,306/yr on $700K
• 4912 Cedar Aveexemption0.93%$2,816/yr on $301K
• 4913 Cedar Aveexemption0.94%$2,871/yr on $305K
• 4911 Cedar Aveexemption0.97%$3,131/yr on $324K
• …and 19 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart

The starkest example: 4931 Cedar Ave is assessed at $760K but pays $5,105 a year — about 48% of the $10,637 it would owe at the full rate, because its new-construction value is abated for 10 years.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +8.1% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $235 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Return is from assessed-value history (a proxy for market price, lumpy in reassessment years); rental yield is estimated from ACS area rents. Informational only, not investment advice.

How often it changes hands

This block has recorded 67 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window, while 11 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

The block's largest owner, Kadimah Development LLC, carries 2 open violations across 16 properties it owns around the city.

The mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill — for an LLC, often the closest public record gets to the person behind it. "Registry" searches the owner's name in state incorporation records (OpenCorporates).

House by house

All 44 homes on the block — value and 12-year trajectory, ownership, and the paper trail on the ones that were bought, built, torn down, or flipped. Sorted up the street; each links to its full city record — or download the roster (CSV).

Every house's assessed value, 2016–2027 — each line is one home

Worth a look

New construction

4931 Cedar Ave

$760K · Bought for $190K in 2018, built new under a 2007 permit (tax-abated), sold for $625K in 2018.

New construction

4946 Cedar Ave

$700K · Bought for $300K in 2018, built new under a 2018 permit (tax-abated), sold for $700K in 2022.

New construction

4937 Cedar Ave

$470K · built new under a 2022 permit (tax-abated).

Renovated & sold on

4925 Cedar Ave

$668K · Bought for $440K in 2020, interior non-load-bearing wall demo. permit in 2021, sold for $675K in 2025 (+611%).

Renovated & sold on

4929 Cedar Ave

$659K · Bought for $120K in 2004, alteration permit in 2008, sold for $385K in 2010 (+221%).

Renovated & sold on

4915 Cedar Ave

$636K · Bought for $51K in 2014, alteration permit in 2014, sold for $578K in 2018 (+1042%).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.