New construction
Why it mattersbuilt new under a 2020 permit.
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6516 Germantown Ave
3,704 sqft · CMX2 · built 1925
Commercial · Fr Pelham Development LLC · assessed $576K. On the 6500 block of Germantown Ave.
Property summary
Assessment$576KCity assessed value
Last sale$200KRecorded 2019
Est. annual tax$8K/yearAssessment × 1.3998%
Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable
Permits8Shown in this report
ViolationsNone openNo open L&I cases
What stands out
From the public recordWhat the record is signaling
Early patterns mined across this property's dated public records. Each flag shows what triggered it and where the inference stops.
Recent transition activity
The property has an unusually active paper trail worth monitoring for the next permit, inspection, deed, or listing.
Evidence: 4 permit events since 2023 · 1 zoning/board appeal since 2023
Limit: Record activity alone does not establish that a sale or redevelopment is planned.
Assessment/permit mismatch
The assessment jumped 156% in 2027, but no matching permit appears in the property timeline.
Evidence: assessment moved from $225,000 to $575,500 · 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 machine-learning forecast. A signal is a prompt to verify the cited record, not a prediction or allegation.
Commercial propertyProperty report
This is a commercial, 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
Commercial
Str/Off 2 Sty Masonry
Owner
Fr Pelham Development Llc
Tax standing
Assessed $576K
On the tax roll
$ / sq ft
$155
above the $130 median for 12,035 commercial parcels citywide
Corridor
Germantown Ave./Gorgas-Upsal
city commercial corridor
Assessed value
$576K
City market value
Interior area
3,704 sqft
Lot size
1,939 sqft
Built
1925
Zoning
CMX2
Who's behind it
Fr Pelham Development LLC · corporate / LLC owner
• Tax bills mail to 482 Norristown Rd, Blue Bell PA, 19442 — outside Philadelphia
Block context
6516 Germantown Ave sits on the 6500 block of Germantown Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.
See the whole block →Next door: 6514 Germantown Ave · 6526-34 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
- 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
- Imagery — Street photo © Google · Aerial © Esri, Maxar
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.
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Built 1925. 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 an assessment-based annual tax estimate.
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