House report

5937 N Leithgow St

3 bd · 2 ba · 2 stories · 1,280 sqft · RSA5 · built 1953

Owner-occupancy signal · assessed $225K · sold 3×. On the 5900 block of N Leithgow St in ZIP 19120.

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Property summary

Assessment$225,000City assessed value Last sale$210KRecorded 2024 Est. tax bill—Record unavailable Tax delinquencyNo 2022 matchNot proof account is current Permits0Every fetched City permit Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records

Report assembled Jul 11, 2026 “Open” reflects records available then historical records keep their source dates estimates are labeled

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Property tax

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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax—

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Official current account balanceCheck live

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OPA 612359100

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Exemption classificationExemption status unavailable

The assessment did not include a usable taxable value.

Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion

This parcel did not match the June 2022 delinquency snapshot. That absence does not confirm the account is current today.

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What stands out

From the public record

Finding

Multiple recorded transfers

Record summary

3 non-nominal transfers recorded: $10K in 2015 → $210K in 2024 (+2000% between recorded amounts).

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What to do with this

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If you’re buying

Built 1953: lead rules apply

Federal law requires a lead-paint disclosure at sale for any pre-1978 home. If it will be rented, Philadelphia also requires a lead-safe or lead-free certificate before a rental license can issue.

Zoned RSA5: one household by right

Single-family rowhouse (the classic Philly row). Converting to a duplex or apartments needs a use variance the zoning board rarely grants — Pennsylvania courts require a physical hardship of the lot itself, and economics alone do not qualify.

If you own it

$1,399/yr may be unclaimed

This home reads owner-occupied but shows no Homestead Exemption, which removes $100,000 from the taxable assessment (worth up to $1,399/yr). Applying through the City is free and takes minutes.

Derived from the fetched property records and linked City guidance as of 2026. Assessment treatment is not a substitute for an exemption approval, live balance, title report, license, occupancy certificate, or inspection. Informational only — not legal, tax, or investment advice.

Assessment and tax history

Every fetched annual City assessment for this house, compared with its block and ZIP. The figures show assessment change, the billed-year tax estimate, dated tax records, and recorded transfers. They do not estimate market appreciation or investment return.

Assessed value

$225K

built 1953

Price / sq ft

$176

block $131 · above block

Assessment change

—

Est. tax bill / yr

—

Jun 2022 tax snapshot

No match

not proof the account is current

Times sold

The short read

Multiple recorded transfers

3 non-nominal transfers recorded: $10K in 2015 → $210K in 2024 (+2000% between recorded amounts).

A selected summary of the main sequence. The chart above and source ledger below contain every fetched dated row.

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Jan 1, 2024
Recorded transfer$210K transfer
2024
Jan 1, 2023
Recorded transfer$100K transfer
2023
Jan 1, 2015
Recorded transfer$10K transfer
2015

What this record suggests

The dated deed and City-record sequence is assembled below. Read timing as a research lead, not proof of renovation, condition, or motive.

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The property, on paper

The city assessor's field record — the physical spec sheet behind the assessed number.

Bedrooms

Bathrooms

Stories

Interior

1,280 sqft

livable area

Lot

989 sqft

Basement

Partial, finished

city code E

Heat

Forced hot air

city code A

Central air

Yes

Garage

1 space

Exterior condition

Average

city code 4

Above averageBelow average

Interior condition

New / rehabbed

city code 2

New / rehabbed

Quality grade

assessor's grade

ABCDE

Zoning

RSA5

city zoning code

OPA field-assessment attributes. Condition and grade are the assessor's codes, not an inspection.

Block context

5937 N Leithgow St sits on the 5900 block of N Leithgow St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 5935 N Leithgow St · 5939 N Leithgow St

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
Tax delinquency snapshot · June 2022 — Real Estate Tax Delinquencies, Dept. of Revenue
Historical tax ledger & liens · through 2016 — Real Estate Tax Balances, Dept. of Revenue
Current property-tax balance — Verify with Philadelphia 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

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 11, 2026, 11:09 AM ET. Available City datasets are queried from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and the cited City ArcGIS feeds; record queries paginate rather than silently taking a first page. For this property: Permits: queried · Violations: queried · Investigations: queried · Appeals: queried · Licenses: queried · Building certifications: queried. “Unavailable” means the source query failed or was not supplied, not “no record.” Reports re-pull on view after seven days and on an overnight rolling schedule; citywide benchmarks recompute weekly. Source dates still govern: the parcel-level tax-delinquency snapshot is June 2022 and the separate detailed tax ledger ends in 2016, so neither establishes today’s balance. The live balance and date-effective payoff must be verified in Tax Center. AI-written passages are grounded in the assembled record and rejected if they state a number the record does not hold.

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About this data & fine print

Answers are generated by an AI agent querying available City of Philadelphia open data at the moment you ask: OPA property assessments, Recorder of Deeds transfer records, L&I permits, violations & licenses, dated Dept. of Revenue tax records, Zoning Board appeals, Police incident reports, Philly311 requests, and School District of Philadelphia catchment and school data. When you explicitly request a web check—or ask about a current listing or recent news—the agent can also run a cited public-web search; those claims are labeled separately from City records.

For an explicit web search or a current listing/news question, the agent may also search the public web through OpenRouter and must link every web-derived claim. Public listing pages can be stale and are not direct or comprehensive MLS access.

Property-level tax data is historical: the delinquency snapshot is dated June 2022 and the separate detailed ledger ends in 2016. Neither shows what is owed today; verify a current balance with Philadelphia Revenue.

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