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Who owns your block

8500 block of Germantown Ave

An investor-heavy block: 56% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 14 open code violations.

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
$989K
$167K–$3.2M
Median built
1915
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
28%
5 of 18
Open violations
14
L&I code
▲ block 33% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

Schools

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

Elementary & Middle · K-8
John S Jenks
8301 Germantown Ave · 380 students
High · 9-12
Roxborough High School
6498 Ridge Ave · 529 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 18 parcels

Owner-occupied: 5Investor / LLC: 8Absentee individual: 4Vacant: 1 18parcels
  • Owner-occupied 5
  • Investor / LLC 8
  • Absentee individual 4
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

3 parcels6 parcels5 parcels1 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$167K$3.0M+

The block's largest owner, Bowman Properties Limited, carries 16 open violations across 36 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Bowman Properties Limited536$28Mphila.gov ↗
Bowman Properties12$1.8Mphila.gov ↗
Meyer Diaz Llc11$431Kphila.gov ↗
8524-26 Germantown Ave Lp11$906Kphila.gov ↗
Germantown Tr Co11$3.0Mphila.gov ↗
8528 Germantown Ave Lp11$816Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 18 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
8500-10 GERMANTOWN AVE Absentee individual $3.2M 1930 0
8501-05 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $1.8M 1905 0
8507 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $956K 1900 0
8511 GERMANTOWN AVE Absentee individual $860K 1915 0
8512-16 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $1.2M 1930 0 3 viol
8513-15 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $1.4M 1915 0 3 viol
8517-19 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $1.2M 1915 0
8518 GERMANTOWN AVE Absentee individual $573K 1915 0
8518R GERMANTOWN AVE Vacant $167K 0
8520 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $431K 1930 0
8521 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $733K 1915 0
8522 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $431K 1930 0
8523 GERMANTOWN AVE Absentee individual $1.0M 1925 0 1 viol
8524-26 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $906K 1930 0 2 viol
8527-29 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $3.0M 1927 0
8528 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $816K 1915 0
8530 GERMANTOWN AVE Owner-occupied $1.2M 1915 0 1 viol
8532 GERMANTOWN AVE Investor / LLC $1.5M 1915 0 4 viol

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.