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Who owns your block

9200 block of Cottage St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 76% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 home behind $2,762 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 86% since 2016, now about $300K. Property taxes are climbing about 4% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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
$300K
$19K–$444K
ZIP median $326K
Price / sq ft
$319
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.3×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$314K
2 sold in 2yr
assessed $300K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $5K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 25
$24K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
76%
19 of 25
city 41%
Rentals
4%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$3K
1 of 25 behind
▼ block 4% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+7%
value · tax +$273
5 years
+50%
value · tax +$672
10 years
+86%
value · tax +$964

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.

2027
  • 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 $300K — about 1.3× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19114 median of $326K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19114 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19114Philadelphia
Median home value$300K$326K$223K
Owner-occupied56%66%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 37 reported crimes (9 violent) and 51 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
37
9 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
51
11 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts12
Other Assaults9
All Other Offenses7
Motor Vehicle Theft2
Theft from Vehicle2
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief2

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint16
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection7
Street Defect6
Abandoned Vehicle4
Other (Streets)3
Smoke Detector3

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.

Elementary & Middle · K-8
Thomas Holme
9125 Academy Rd · 787 students
High · 9-12
Abraham Lincoln
3201 Ryan Ave · 2332 students

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

Median assessed value · 2016–2027

$0$250K$500K$300K2016: $161K2017: $161K2018: $161K2019: $189K2020: $201K2021: $201K2022: $201K2023: $231K2024: $231K2025: $281K2026: $281K2027: $300K2016202020232027

▲ +86% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$2,8512016: $1,8872017: $1,8872018: $1,8872019: $2,1192020: $2,1792021: $2,1772022: $2,1792023: $2,1352024: $2,1352025: $2,5702026: $2,5782027: $2,8512016202020232027

▲ +51% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr

1
1 property on this block carry a tax abatement or major exemption. New construction and gut rehabs get the improvement value exempted for up to 10 years, so their tax bills sit far below their real value — block-wide, exemptions keep about $23,904 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

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:

10 homes pay the full 1.40%15 pay less
$0pays now $4,307at the full rate

The starkest example: 9214-16 Cottage St is assessed at $308K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $4,307 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 186 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $186 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+86%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.8%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.7 pts
market 6.5%/yr

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 20 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 12 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20052010201520202025
20arm's-length sales since 2001
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
12homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 25 parcels

Owner-occupied: 19Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 5 25parcels
  • Owner-occupied 19
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 5

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels24 parcels
$19K$321K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Cottage Property Management LLC11$293Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

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 25 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

$0$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
9210 COTTAGE ST Bought for $126K in 2001, major alteration permit in 2011, sold for $190K in 2011 (+51%). Owner-occupied $303K —/— 1,044 1950 3
9211 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $19K —/— 476 1925 1
9212 COTTAGE ST Absentee individual $314K 3/2 1,044 1950 1
9213 COTTAGE ST 2 L&I violations (2007); L&I violation (2013); 5 L&I violations (2016); 4 L&I violations (2017). Absentee individual $295K —/— 918 1968 0
9214-16 COTTAGE ST Absentee individual $308K —/— 1,056 1973 0 abated
9215 COTTAGE ST Traded 2×: $150K in 2020 → $210K in 2020 (+40%). Owner-occupied $293K 3/2 918 1968 2
9217 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $293K 3/1 918 1968 1
9218-20 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $370K —/— 1,800 1963 0
9219 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $293K —/— 918 1968 0
9221 COTTAGE ST Bought for $290K in 2023. Owner pulled a alterations permit in 2026. Absentee individual $303K 3/2 918 1965 1
9223 COTTAGE ST sold $174K (2013); 2 L&I violations (2019); L&I violation (2024); L&I violation (2026). Owner-occupied $304K 3/1 918 1968 1
9224 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $321K —/— 1,344 1968 0
9225 COTTAGE ST Traded 2×: $250K in 2020 → $310K in 2022 (+24%). Absentee individual $304K 3/1 918 1968 2
9226 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $321K —/— 1,344 1968 0
9227 COTTAGE ST Traded 2×: $120K in 2003 → $180K in 2015 (+50%). Owner-occupied $304K 3/1 918 1968 2
9228 COTTAGE ST Bought for $275K in 2023. Owner pulled a deck (exist. one-family dwellings) permit in 2025. Owner-occupied $300K —/— 1,012 1966 1
9229 COTTAGE ST Investor / LLC $293K —/— 918 1968 1 rented
9230 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $300K 3/1 1,012 1966 1
9231 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $293K —/— 918 1968 0
9232 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $315K —/— 1,077 1965 0
9233 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $293K —/— 918 1968 0
9235 COTTAGE ST Owner-occupied $293K —/— 918 1968 0
9237 COTTAGE ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2008. Owner-occupied $293K —/— 918 1968 0
9238 COTTAGE ST Traded 3×: $276K in 2012 → $276K in 2012 (+0%). Owner-occupied $444K 4/2 1,809 1964 3
9239 COTTAGE ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2008. Owner-occupied $293K —/— 918 1968 0

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-09 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.