Property report

935 Cottman Ave

15,410 sqftCMX1built 1980

Property at a glancePlace of worship

Burholme Baptist Church

2026 assessment

$1.3M OPA value, not a listing price

2027 published assessment

$1.3M Future roll, not the current tax bill

Location

900 block of Cottman Ave ZIP 19111

Neighborhood area

Fox Chase · Burholme Approximate · based on ZIP 19111

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Assessment and City record timeline

The line tracks this property’s published City assessment. Markers show deeds, permits, inspections, licenses, violations, certifications, and appeals on their recorded dates. Select one to read the filing.

Assessments are tax-roll values, not sale prices or appraisals. OPA has published a 2027 assessment of $1,330,300. It is not yet the billed-year tax basis.

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2015-12-21PermitMajor alteration

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Property tax

$0/year estimated property tax

2026 taxable assessment $0 × 1.3998%. This is an estimate, not a bill or account balance. The City maintains payments, credits, interest, and the current amount due.

OPA has published a 2027 assessment of $1,330,300. It is not the 2026 billed-year value.

Current City balanceCheck Tax Center

Payments, credits, interest, and the current amount due are maintained by the City.

OPA 778121000

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Exemption classificationFull assessment exemption shown

2026 OPA shows a zero or de minimis taxable assessment. The open assessment split does not establish the exemption's legal basis, continuing eligibility, or treatment after a transfer.

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.

For a purchase, refinance, or closing, request the City’s official Property Payoff statement in Tax Center under “More options.”

Property report

Not a house

Place of worship. OPA shows a full or near-full assessment exemption whose basis must be verified. A $0 assessment-based estimate does not prove the live Tax Center account has no prior-period balance or other charges.

What it is

Place of worship Hse Worship All 2 Sty M+O

Owner

Burholme Baptist Church Public / institutional

$ / sq ft

$86 below the $151 median for 7,668 commercial parcels citywide

Corridor

Five Points city commercial corridor

Interior area

15,410 sqft

Lot size

17,452 sqft

Built

1980

Zoning

CMX1

Recorded owner

Who's behind it

Burholme Baptist Church · corporate / LLC owner

• Owns 2 properties across Philadelphia under this name, assessed at $1.7M combined
• Tax bills mail to 935 Cottman Ave, Philadelphia PA, 19111

PA corporate registry ↗OpenCorporates ↗City record ↗

Block context

900 block of Cottman Ave. Compare parcels, ownership, and public-record history.

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Next door: 901 Cottman Ave · 912 Cottman Ave

L&I license dates · data through Jul 25, 2026

Business licenses at this address Latest pull

What L&I has registered at this OPA parcel, newest initial license date first.

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No L&I business license is on record at this address in data through Jul 25, 2026.

A license is an L&I registration, not proof that a business is open, operating today, or located at this storefront. Dates are license dates. Events are deduped by parcel, business identity, and license type, so a renewal is not shown as another opening. Other permit and filing types remain in the full source ledger.

Open every source row 1 dated row

Dec 21, 2015
PermitMajor alteration
Permit 627746 · COMPLETED
REPLACEMENT OF CHURCH STEEPLE & FENCE. ALL PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION PER THE PHILADELPHIA BUILDING CODE TO BE IN PLACE PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF PERMITTED WORK & ALL PROTECTIVE MEASURES TO BE MAINTAINED AT ALL TIMES UNTIL PERMITTED WORK HAS BEEN COMPLETED & APPROVED BY DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR.

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

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 26, 2026, 11:50 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.

City data is published as-is and can lag, contain errors, or be corrected later; school performance datasets run years behind and are labeled with their school year. AI answers can contain mistakes. Verify anything that matters against the official record (property.phila.gov, atlas.phila.gov) before acting on it.

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