The Block Report

Apartment building report

5237 Chester Ave

3 stories · 2,672 sqft · RSA5 · built 1900

Apartment building · 6 units · Vaxa Investments LLC · assessed $515K. On the 5200 block of Chester Ave.

Property summary

Assessment$515KCity assessed value Last sale$275KRecorded 2020 Est. annual tax$7K/yearAssessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits2Dated events in report ViolationsNone openNone open when assembled

“Open” reflects records available then historical records keep their source dates estimates are labeled

BlockReport AI · cited public records

Ask the questions this record raises.

These curated questions are free. Choose one to open its cited answer.

Question or correct this record

BlockReport can explain a discrepancy, but it cannot rewrite an official City record. Use the agency that owns the underlying fact:

Street view of 5237 Chester Ave
From the street — imagery © Google
From above — imagery © Esri, Maxar

Verify the current balance before relying on it.

The June 2022 delinquency snapshot was not verifiably available in this cached report. No conclusion about a match—or today’s balance—can be drawn from that absence.

A separate historical parcel ledger ending in 2016 records $283 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.

Verify current balance with Philadelphia Revenue →

What stands out

From the public record
Finding

Improved

Why it matters

Bought for $195K in 2019. Owner pulled a interior non-load-bearing wall demo. permit in 2022.

View supporting records →
Finding

"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder

Why it matters

Philadelphia records use 1900 as a stand-in when the real construction year was never documented. Treat the age as unknown, not as 120+ years.

View supporting records →

Records to verify together

Rule-based groupings across this property's dated public records. Each flag shows the records that belong in the same verification step and where the inference stops.

Dated record flagAssessment/permit mismatch

The assessment jumped 34% in 2027, but no matching permit appears in the property timeline.

Evidence: assessment moved from $383,200 to $514,600 · no permit shown in 2026-2028

Limit: Not proof of unpermitted work; reassessment, corrected data, or a permit under another parcel can also explain it.

Transparent record rules, not a score or forecast. Each flag is a prompt to verify the cited records, not a prediction or allegation.

Apartment buildingBuilding report

This is a apartment building, recorded under the city's apartments category. The homeowner tools (rent estimate, homestead playbook) don't apply, so they're hidden. The full record and owner trail are below.

historical lien entry · through 2016

What it is
Apartment building
Apts 5-50 Units Masonry
Owner
Vaxa Investments Llc
Tax standing
Assessed $515K
On the tax roll
$ / sq ft
$193
above the $151 median for 3,983 apartments parcels citywide
Licensed units
6
active rental license
Assessed value
$515K
City market value
Interior area
2,672 sqft
Lot size
2,000 sqft
Stories
3
Built
1900
Zoning
RSA5

Who's behind it

Vaxa Investments LLC · corporate / LLC owner

• Owns 2 properties across Philadelphia under this name, assessed at $630K combined
• Tax bills mail to 1215 Livingston Ave Ste 310, North Brunswick NJ, 08902 — outside Philadelphia
• Holds an active rental license for this address

PA corporate registry ↗OpenCorporates ↗City record ↗

Where the record looks off

Places where the city's own paperwork disagrees with itself. These are flags on the data — not problems with the property.

"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder

Philadelphia records use 1900 as a stand-in when the real construction year was never documented. Treat the age as unknown, not as 120+ years.

Block context

5237 Chester Ave sits on the 5200 block of Chester Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

See the whole block →

Next door: 5235 Chester Ave  ·  5239 Chester Ave

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

Available City datasets are queried from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com), then reports are cached and refreshed on a rolling schedule. Source dates vary: the parcel-level tax-delinquency snapshot is June 2022 and the separate detailed tax ledger ends in 2016, so neither establishes today’s balance. Other dossiers re-pull on view once stale, and citywide benchmarks recompute weekly. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.

Official city record ↗  ·  L&I history ↗  ·  See the whole block  ·  Download this record (JSON)