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Who owns your block

5500 block of Chestnut St

A mixed-ownership block: 21% owner-occupied, 16% investor-held, with 2 open code violations and 1 home behind $21 on taxes.

Every parcel on the block, colored by who owns it. Tap a parcel for the owner and its city record.

By the Numbers

Median value
$175K
$47K–$4.7M
Median built
1925
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
21%
4 of 19
Open violations
2
L&I code
▲ block 11% · city 5%
Back taxes
$21
1 of 19 behind
▼ block 5% · city 9%

Schools

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

Elementary & Middle · K-8
Andrew Hamilton
6801 Cottage St · 686 students
High · 9-12
William Sayre
5800 Walnut St · 439 students

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

Who owns it

Ownership of 19 parcels

Owner-occupied: 4Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 10Vacant: 3 19parcels
  • Owner-occupied 4
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 10
  • Vacant 3

Value distribution today

14 parcels2 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$47K$2.1M+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Do 2 Win Re Group Llc176$16Mphila.gov ↗
Chestnut Llc12$4.8Mphila.gov ↗
Phila Surburban Dev Corp11$97Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 19 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).

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
5501-19 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $2.1M 1981 0
5506-12 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $542K 1980 0
5514 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $110K 1925 0
5516-30 CHESTNUT ST Owner-occupied $323K 1942 0
5521-37 CHESTNUT ST Vacant $97K 0
5532-34 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $230K 1925 0
5536-40 CHESTNUT ST Vacant $96K 0
5539 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $237K 1950 0 1 viol
5541 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $175K 1925 0
5542-46 CHESTNUT ST Owner-occupied $505K 1925 0
5543 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $150K 1925 0 1 viol
5545 CHESTNUT ST Owner-occupied $156K 1925 0
5547 CHESTNUT ST Vacant $47K 0
5548-54 CHESTNUT ST Investor / LLC $4.7M 1940 0
5549 CHESTNUT ST Investor / LLC $156K 1925 0
5551 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $162K 1925 0
5553 CHESTNUT ST Owner-occupied $156K 1925 0
5555-57 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $300K 1925 0
5559-71 CHESTNUT ST Absentee individual $1.0M 1960 0

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

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

Where this comes from

City datasets are fetched live from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and cached briefly. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.