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Who owns your block

5900 block of Cottage St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 89% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 8 open code violations and 4 homes behind $27,646 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
$219K
$211K–$309K
Recent sale
$106K
2 sold in 2yr
assessed $219K
Median built
1940
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
89%
17 of 19
Open violations
8
L&I code
▲ block 11% · city 5%
Back taxes
$28K
4 of 19 behind
▲ block 21% · city 9%

Schools

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

Elementary · K-5
Henry W Lawton
6101 Jackson St · 513 students
Middle · 6-8
Warren G Harding
2000 Wakeling St · 522 students
High · 9-12
Frankford HS
5000 Oxford Ave · 908 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: 17Absentee individual: 2 19parcels
  • Owner-occupied 17
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

11 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels2 parcels1 parcels2 parcels
$211K$295K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Roberts Proprietor Llc15$1.2Mphila.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
5904 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $227K 1940 0 2 viol
5905 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $309K 1940 0
5906 COTTAGE ST Absentee individual $213K 1940 0
5907 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $211K 1940 0
5908 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $213K 1940 0
5909 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $219K 1940 0
5910 COTTAGE ST Absentee individual $213K 1940 0 6 viol
5912 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $250K 1940 0
5913 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $270K 1940 0
5914 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $213K 1940 0
5915 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $295K 1940 0
5916 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $213K 1940 0
5917 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $219K 1940 0
5918 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $213K 1940 0
5919 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $257K 1940 0
5920 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $213K 1940 0
5921 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $276K 1940 0
5922 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $216K 1940 0
5924 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $259K 1940 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.