Improved
Why it mattersBought for $170K in 2000. Owner pulled a alterations permit in 2020.
View supporting records →Commercial property report
5827 Germantown Ave
1,891 sqft · CMX2.5 · built 1900
Store · Douglas Stern · assessed $342K. On the 5800 block of Germantown Ave.
Property summary
Assessment$342KCity assessed value
Last sale$205KRecorded 2008
Est. taxes$5K/yearAnnual city record
Permits4Shown in this report
ViolationsNone openNo open L&I cases
What stands out
From the public record"Built 1900" is usually a placeholder
Why it mattersPhiladelphia 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 →Commercial propertyProperty report
This is a store, recorded under the city's commercial category. The homeowner tools (rent estimate, homestead playbook) don't apply, so they're hidden. The full record and owner trail are below.
What it is
Store
Store 1 Sty Masonry
Owner
Stern Douglas
Tax standing
Assessed $342K
On the tax roll
$ / sq ft
$181
above the $130 median for 12,035 commercial parcels citywide
Corridor
Central Germantown & Vicinity
city commercial corridor
Assessed value
$342K
City market value
Interior area
1,891 sqft
Lot size
2,407 sqft
Built
1900
Zoning
CMX2.5
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
5827 Germantown Ave sits on the 5800 block of Germantown Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 5825 Germantown Ave · 5829 1/2 Germantown Ave
Where this comes from
- Assessment, spec sheet & owner — OPA Property Assessments, Office of Property Assessment
- Sales & deed history — Realty Transfer Tax records, Recorder of Deeds
- Permits, violations & inspections — L&I Property History · Atlas
- Back taxes & liens — Real Estate Tax Balances, Dept. of Revenue
- Zoning appeals — L&I & Zoning Board appeals
- Neighborhood income & rents — US Census ACS 5-year estimates
- Historical mortgage rates — Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, annual averages
- Imagery — Street photo © Google · Aerial © Esri, Maxar
Methodology & freshness
City datasets are fetched live from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and cached briefly. Dossiers re-pull automatically — on view once they're a few weeks old, plus a nightly rolling sweep — 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.
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This is 5827 Germantown Ave,
on paper.
Built 1900. Every deed, permit, L&I visit, tax bill and sale for this house — plus its whole block.
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What to catch on the way down.
On the way down: the story of the house, its paper trail drawn on the value chart, and run-the-numbers, a calculator seeded with this house's actual tax bill.
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