Philadelphia property report

8200 block of Germantown Ave

Neighborhood area Chestnut Hill

Approximate · based on ZIP 19118

2027 median assessment
$1.4M Homes · City published roll
Latest roll movement
+3% 2026 → 2027 assessments
Roll coverage
22 Homes · 29 total parcels
Entity-held signal
18% 4 of 22 homes

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L&I permits · issue dates through Jul 27, 2026

Permit records by yearLatest pull

Issue calendar years 2007 through 2026. Values count distinct current OPA parcels by exact structured L&I permit and work type.

All permit records · 2025
1 Distinct current OPA parcels with any qualifying issue-dated record
Core-construction records · 2025
0 Distinct parcels with new-construction, alteration/addition, make-safe, structure, or site records
All permit recordsNot available

Each value is the number of distinct current OPA parcels with at least one qualifying record in the selected issue year and exact category. Select a point for the exact count. 2026 is year to date through Jul 27, 2026 and is not annualized.

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Permit issue yearDistinct current OPA parcels

Inferred from public records · 2025-07-27 through 2026-07-27

What's coming to this block

6 possible-opening record signals in this 12-month window. These are classifications, not confirmed announcements.

Inference, not an opening announcement. Possible-opening classifications are inferences from public permit and license records, not confirmed opening announcements. A permit is authorization for a stated scope, not proof that work occurred or finished. A license is an L&I registration, not proof that a business is open or operating. Food and drink uses the seven exact L&I license types already used by BlockReport. The City record does not support a reliable restaurant, bar, and cafe split. License renewals do not create new events. The opening date is the earliest initial issue date for a deduped OPA parcel, normalized business identity, and license type. Sources: L&I building permits and L&I business licenses, data through Jul 27, 2026.

Source: L&I building permits, City of Philadelphia, issue dates through Jul 27, 2026. A permit is a City authorization with a stated scope. It is not proof that work started, was completed, remains in place, or is in good condition today. Dates are permit issue dates. A qualifying issuance record has an issue date and a current normalized status other than Denied or Refused. Records currently marked Expired, Cancelled, Revoked, Withdrawn, or Abandoned remain in the historical issuance count; the metric does not describe active work. The public count is distinct OPA parcels with at least one qualifying permit record in an area, calendar year, and category. Amendments, reissues, and child trade records cannot make one parcel count twice in the same cell. Category counts are not additive because one parcel can have records in more than one category. Trade, minor-building, zoning, occupancy, operations, and sign records stay separate from core construction. They are not folded into a construction-boom claim. The latest calendar year is year to date through the source maximum and is never annualized. Full-year YoY is not calculated into or out of that partial year. ZIP YoY is suppressed when the prior full-year core-construction count is below 8 parcels. The source crosses the legacy HANSEN and eCLIPSE systems. A change in record granularity can move counts even when physical construction activity does not change. 859,563 of 925,970 qualifying permit records match a current OPA parcel. 859,376 (92.8%) also have a usable Philadelphia ZIP and can contribute to ZIP or block counts. 38,534 qualifying records lack an OPA ID, 27,873 have a nonblank ID that does not match the current parcel file, and 187 match a current parcel without a usable 191xx ZIP.

Median home value
$1.4M 22 homes of 29 parcels · 2027 published roll ZIP median $772K
Typical assessment split
10% / 90% land / improvement · 22 homes
Commercial
$2.1M 5 buildings · $180/sqft
Price / sq ft
$668 typical home city median $181
Vs. Philadelphia
6.0× the city median city $229K
Median recent sale
$1.5M 4 homes with a latest OPA sale field in 2yr
Tax / yr
$2K typical home · up to $30K city 2026 ≈$2K/yr
Major assessment exemptions
19 of 22 $349K/yr estimated reduction
Owner-occupancy signal
41% 9 of 22
Active rental licenses
0% 0 of 22 homes city 16% of homes
Open violations
6 L&I code ▲ block 7% · city 5%
Tax delinquency · Jun 2022
No match no parcels listed in snapshot ▼ block 0% · city 8%
Zoning appeals
6 5 parcels · ZBA & boards block 17% · city 5%

Assessment change through 2026

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$0
5 years
+7%
value · tax −$394
10 years
+276%
value · tax −$3K

Median assessed-home-value change through the billed-year roll. Tax deltas use the same endpoint and each year’s taxable-assessment median; exemptions can make the tax path differ from the full assessed-value path.

Ownership of 29 parcels

Owner-occupancy signal: 9Entity-held: 8Individual, other or unknown mailing address: 12 29parcels
  • Owner-occupancy signal 9
  • Entity-held 8
  • Individual, other or unknown mailing address 12

Value distribution · 2027 published roll

2 parcels2 parcels4 parcels8 parcels5 parcels3 parcels5 parcels
$276K$2.5M+

The block's largest owner, Bowman Properties Limited, carries 16 open violations across 36 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockProperties on this blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueTax bills mail toSource
Bowman Properties Limited136$28M8236 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia PA, 19118phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
8200 Commercial LP22$10M8238 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia PA, 19118phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Db Garden Terrace LLC11$2.5M2629 Pierce St, San Francisco CA, 94123phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
8200 Commerical LP11$2.1M8238 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia PA, 19118phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Clayton Ow Holdings LLC11$1.4M25 Summit Street, Philadelphia PA, 19118phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Glengarry Properties LP11$8.0M8221-35 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia PA, 19118phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Vp 8226 Germantown LLC11$1.2M830 Welsh Rd Box 264, Huntingdon Valley PA, 19006phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

Property addresses identify the parcels represented by each grouped owner row. Individual names and mailing addresses stay hidden. For organizations, the mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill; "Registry" searches the recorded owner name in state incorporation records.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 23 police incident reports, about 2 a month, and 36 resident 311 requests to the city. These are raw nearby counts, not population-adjusted rates. A busy commercial corridor can record more activity than a residential block.

Police incidents · 12mo
23
about 2/month · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
36
about 3/month · 3 open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults5
Theft from Vehicle4
Thefts4
Fraud3
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief3
All Other Offenses2

Top 311 complaints

Street Light Outage10
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection6
License Complaint4
Street Defect4
Shoveling3
Construction Complaints1

Philadelphia Police incident reports and 311 service requests within 200m, trailing 12 months. The breakdown preserves the source's reported offense types. Reported location is not necessarily where an incident occurred.

Generated 2026-07-26 from public City of Philadelphia records  ·  Download this block's data (CSV)

Where this comes from

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 26, 2026, 2:49 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. “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.