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Who owns your block

5500 block of Germantown Ave

A mixed-ownership block: 29% owner-occupied, 35% investor-held, with 1 home behind $34,903 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
$501K
$44K–$820K
Median built
1920
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
29%
5 of 17
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$35K
1 of 17 behind
▼ block 6% · city 9%

Schools

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

Elementary
Mastery Charter School At Wister
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.

Who owns it

Ownership of 17 parcels

Owner-occupied: 5Investor / LLC: 5Absentee individual: 4Vacant: 3 17parcels
  • Owner-occupied 5
  • Investor / LLC 5
  • Absentee individual 4
  • Vacant 3

Value distribution today

2 parcels0 parcels2 parcels2 parcels4 parcels2 parcels5 parcels
$44K$709K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Is Jam Llc36$3.5Mphila.gov ↗
Germantown Square Llc11$351Kphila.gov ↗
Us Four Inc11$501Kphila.gov ↗
Ramses Llc11$513Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 17 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).

AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
5501 GERMANTOWN AVE Vacant $44K 0
5503-05 GERMANTOWN AVE Absentee individual $498K 0
5507-17 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $351K 1733 0
5514-18 GERMANTOWN AVE Absentee individual $685K 1920 0
5519 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $415K 1950 0
5520 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $501K 1920 0
5521-29 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $709K 1969 0
5522 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $276K 1920 0
5524 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $524K 1920 0
5526-28 GERMANTOWN AVE Vacant $267K 0
5530-34 GERMANTOWN AVE Vacant $66K 0
5531-33 GERMANTOWN AVE Absentee individual $479K 1930 0
5535 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $513K 1950 0
5537-39 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $566K 1915 0
5541-47 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $700K 1940 0
5549-53 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $820K 1915 0
5555-57 GERMANTOWN AVE Absentee individual $682K 1915 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.