Who owns your block
5800 block of Cottage St
A mixed-ownership block: 57% owner-occupied, 14% investor-held.
The typical home here is up 90% since 2016, now about $196K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% a year though the increases have eased lately.
- Owner-occupied
- Investor / LLC
- Absentee
- Vacant
- Has violations
By the Numbers
How fast it's moving
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 tax-abated new construction. Click a bubble for its report.
- Owner-occupied
- Investor / LLC
- Absentee
- Vacant
- Tax-abated
- 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 $196K — about 0.9× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19135 median of $207K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19135 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19135 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $196K | $207K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 43% | 44% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 46 reported crimes (13 violent) and 59 resident 311 requests to the city.
Most reported crimes
Top 311 complaints
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
- $196K typical home, up +90% since 2016
- Tax bill $1,120 to $2,100 a year, +6%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $2.9M assessed, $30,383/yr to the city, about $2,170 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +90% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +88% since 2016 · ~+6%/yr
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:
- 5812 Cottage Sttax-abated new construction0.56%$1,575/yr on $281K
- 5806 Cottage Stexemption0.62%$1,110/yr on $179K
- 5802 Cottage Stexemption0.63%$1,156/yr on $183K
- 5803 Cottage Stexemption0.68%$1,338/yr on $196K
- 5807 Cottage Stexemption0.68%$1,338/yr on $196K
- …and 2 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart
The starkest example: 5812 Cottage St is assessed at $281K but pays $1,575 a year — about 40% of the $3,938 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 tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6% 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 $190 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed 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 9 arm's-length sales since 2003. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 7 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 14 parcels
- Owner-occupied 8
- Investor / LLC 2
- Absentee individual 3
- Vacant 1
Value distribution today
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhangs Management LLC | 1 | 9 | $2.1M | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| A&J Investment LLC | 1 | 2 | $369K | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| Wanda Patla (individual) | 2 | 2 | $324K | phila.gov ↗ |
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 14 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
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5801 COTTAGE ST TradedTraded 2×: $85K in 2004 → $144K in 2021 (+69%). | Investor / LLC | $150K | 3/1 | 1,344 | 1925 | 2 | rented |
| 5802 COTTAGE ST ImprovedOwner pulled a plumbing permit in 2010. | Owner-occupied | $183K | 2/1 | 961 | 1925 | 0 | |
| 5803 COTTAGE ST History3 L&I violations (2010); 4 L&I violations (2014). | Owner-occupied | $196K | 3/1 | 1,240 | 1925 | 0 | |
| 5804 COTTAGE ST ImprovedOwner pulled a plumbing permit in 2010. | Investor / LLC | $178K | 3/1 | 992 | 1925 | 0 | rented |
| 5805 COTTAGE ST Historysold $63K (2004); 2 L&I violations (2010); 2 L&I violations (2014). | Absentee individual | $196K | 3/1 | 1,240 | 1925 | 1 | rented |
| 5806 COTTAGE ST ImprovedBought for $72K in 2003. Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2010. | Owner-occupied | $179K | 3/1 | 992 | 1925 | 2 | |
| 5807 COTTAGE ST | Owner-occupied | $196K | 3/1 | 1,240 | 1925 | 0 | |
| 5808 COTTAGE ST ImprovedBought for $52K in 2010. Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2010. | Absentee individual | $165K | 2/1 | 992 | 1925 | 1 | |
| 5809 COTTAGE ST ImprovedBought for $140K in 2006. Owner pulled a alteration permit in 2018. | Owner-occupied | $212K | 3/1 | 1,240 | 1925 | 1 | |
| 5810 COTTAGE ST | Owner-occupied | $304K | 3/1 | 1,344 | 1925 | 1 | |
| 5812 COTTAGE ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2013 permit (tax-abated). | Owner-occupied | $281K | 3/1 | 2,044 | 1925 | 0 | abated |
| 5814 COTTAGE ST ImprovedOwner pulled a fast form building permit in 2009. | Owner-occupied | $250K | 3/1 | 1,200 | 1925 | 0 | |
| 5815 COTTAGE ST | Absentee individual | $376K | —/— | 2,400 | 1970 | 1 | |
| 5816 COTTAGE ST | Vacant | $74K | —/— | — | — | 0 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
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Generated 2026-07-09 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)