Philadelphia property report

4900 block of Wissahickon Ave

A mostly owner-occupied block: 63% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 parcel listed in the June 2022 tax-delinquency snapshot ($213 recorded then).

The typical home here is up 90% since 2016, now about $236K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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By the Numbers

Median home value
$236K
8 homes of 9 parcels
ZIP median $207K
Price / sq ft
$170
typical home
city median $181
Vs. Philadelphia
1.0×
the city median
city $230K
Recent sale
$233K
2 sold in 2yr
assessed $236K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $3K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1940
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
63%
5 of 8
city 48%
Rentals
44%
4 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Tax delinquency · Jun 2022
$213
1 of 9 listed
▲ block 11% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 13% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+4%
value · tax +$134
5 years
+69%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+90%
value · tax +$2K

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

The makeup of the block

Every home, plotted by size and assessed value — press play and watch the block reprice from 2016 to 2027. One bubble per house (area = lot size), colored by who owns it; a gold ring marks a material assessment exemption whose legal basis is not established by the roll. Click a bubble for its report.

2027
  • Owner-occupied
  • Investor / LLC
  • Absentee
  • Vacant
  • Assessment exemption
  • Bubble = lot size
  • → bigger interior  ·  ↑ higher value

Assessed values from the city's year-by-year assessment record — a proxy for price, lumpy in reassessment years.

How the block compares

The typical home here is $236K — about 1.0× the citywide median home, and above the ZIP 19144 median of $207K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19144 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19144Philadelphia
Median home value$236K$207K$230K
Owner-occupied13%48%48%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 26 reported crimes (about 2 a month, 35% of them violent) and 89 resident 311 requests to the city. A busy commercial corridor logs far more than a quiet residential block, so read this against nearby blocks, not the citywide total.

Crimes · 12mo
26
about 2/month · 35% violent
311 requests · 12mo
89
about 7/month · 22 open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults7
Thefts5
Motor Vehicle Theft4
Fraud3
Theft from Vehicle2
Aggravated Assault No Firearm1

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection26
Abandoned Vehicle17
Illegal Dumping8
Maintenance Complaint8
Street Defect6
Street Light Outage4

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.

Elementary · K-5
John B Kelly
5116 Pulaski Ave · 346 students
Middle · K-8
Theodore Roosevelt
430 E Washington Ln · 407 students
High · 9-12
Martin Luther King
6100 Stenton Ave · 604 students

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

Median assessed value · 2016–2027

$0$125K$250K$236K2016: $125K2017: $125K2018: $125K2019: $138K2020: $140K2021: $140K2022: $140K2023: $175K2024: $175K2025: $227K2026: $227K2027: $236K2016202020232027

▲ +90% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$3,3082016: $1,7442017: $1,7442018: $1,7442019: $1,9302020: $1,9562021: $1,9562022: $1,9562023: $2,4472024: $2,4472025: $3,1752026: $3,1742027: $3,3082016202020232027

▲ +90% since 2016 · ~+6%/yr

Who really pays

Philadelphia's 1.3998% rate applies to the taxable assessment. The OPA roll shows exemptions that can make an estimate lower than the full assessed-value scenario; this chart does not identify their legal basis.

8 homes pay the full 1.40%1 pays less

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 190 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $190 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+90%
since 2016
Net rental yield
4.9%
est., after tax carry
Total return
+10.9%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+7.9%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.5 pts
market 6.5%/yr

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 10 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K2004201020162022
10arm's-length sales since 2001
1times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
3homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 9 parcels

Owner-occupied: 5Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 2 9parcels
  • Owner-occupied 5
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

6 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$236K$247K+

The block's largest owner, Corestates Group LLC, carries 7 open violations across 105 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueTax bills mail toSource
Corestates Group LLC1105$25M71 Morning Glory Way, Huntingdon Valley PA, 19006phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Jomo LLC11$270K8734 David Lane, Chesapeake Beach MD, 20732phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

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 9 homes on the block — value trajectory, ownership, and the paper trail assembled from the fetched public datasets. Sorted up the street; each links to its property report and official sources — or download the roster (CSV).

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

$0$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
4915 WISSAHICKON AVE Apartment building Bought for $190K in 2026. Owner pulled a alterations permit in 2020. Owner-occupied $237K —/— 1,390 1940 1
4917 WISSAHICKON AVE Apartment building sold $48K (2001); L&I violation (2009); L&I: 1 failed, 1 passed (2009); 3 L&I violations (2025); Inspection failed (2025); Inspection passed (2026). Investor / LLC $236K —/— 1,384 1940 1 licensed rental
4919 WISSAHICKON AVE Apartment building Traded 2×: $75K in 2005 → $131K in 2017 (+75%). Owner-occupied $236K —/— 1,390 1940 2 licensed rental$213 tax · Jun ’22
4921 WISSAHICKON AVE Apartment building Owner pulled a alteration permit in 2013. Absentee individual $236K —/— 1,384 1940 0 licensed rental
4923 WISSAHICKON AVE Apartment building Traded 2×: $115K in 2008 → $138K in 2017 (+20%). Owner-occupied $237K —/— 1,390 1940 2
4925 WISSAHICKON AVE Apartment building Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2010. Owner-occupied $236K —/— 1,390 1940 0
4927 WISSAHICKON AVE Apartment building Bought for $56K in 2004, electrical permit in 2012, sold for $275K in 2025 (+391%). Owner-occupied $247K 2/2 1,406 1940 4 licensed rental
4929 WISSAHICKON AVE Apartment building Owner pulled a electrical permit in 2013. Absentee individual $247K —/— 1,406 1940 0
4931 WISSAHICKON AVE Apartment building Traded 2×: $108K in 2000 → $420K in 2025 (+291%). Investor / LLC $270K —/— 2,996 1940 2

Neighborhood

Median income
$65K
household
Own vs. rent
44%
owner-occupied
Median age
32
residents
Median rent
$1K
gross monthly

Generated 2026-07-10 from public City of Philadelphia records  ·  Download this block's data (CSV)

Where this comes from

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 10, 2026, 3:30 AM ET. Available City datasets are queried from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and the cited City ArcGIS feeds; record queries paginate rather than silently taking a first page. “Unavailable” means the source query failed or was not supplied, not “no record.” Reports re-pull on view after seven days and on an overnight rolling schedule; citywide benchmarks recompute weekly. Source dates still govern: the parcel-level tax-delinquency snapshot is June 2022 and the separate detailed tax ledger ends in 2016, so neither establishes today’s balance. The live balance and date-effective payoff must be verified in Tax Center. AI-written passages are grounded in the assembled record and rejected if they state a number the record does not hold.