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Who owns your block

1200 block of N 18th St

A mixed-ownership block: 5% owner-occupied, 25% investor-held, with 2 homes behind $10,851 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 156% since 2016, now about $252K. Property taxes are climbing about 0% a year and the increases are speeding up.

Every parcel on the block, colored by who owns it. Tap a parcel for the owner and its city record.

By the Numbers

Median value
$252K
$67K–$656K
ZIP median $167K
Price / sq ft
$137
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.1×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $9K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
7 of 20
$51K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
5%
1 of 20
city 41%
Rentals
15%
3 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$11K
2 of 20 behind
▲ block 10% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
4
3 homes · ZBA & boards
block 15% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-15%
value · tax −$100
5 years
+33%
value · tax +$232
10 years
+156%
value · tax +$232

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

The makeup of the block

Every home, plotted by size and assessed value — press play and watch the block reprice from 2016 to 2027. One bubble per house (area = lot size), colored by who owns it; a gold ring marks tax-abated new construction. Click a bubble for its report.

2027
  • Owner-occupied
  • Investor / LLC
  • Absentee
  • Vacant
  • Tax-abated
  • Bubble = lot size
  • → bigger interior  ·  ↑ higher value

Assessed values from the city's year-by-year assessment record — a proxy for price, lumpy in reassessment years.

How the block compares

The typical home here is $252K — about 1.1× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19121 median of $167K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19121 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19121Philadelphia
Median home value$252K$167K$223K
Owner-occupied0%20%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 122 reported crimes (41 violent) and 527 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
122
41 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
527
46 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults23
Thefts17
Motor Vehicle Theft14
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief14
Theft from Vehicle13
All Other Offenses8

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint329
Information Request71
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection22
Illegal Dumping18
Salting14
Abandoned Vehicle13

Philadelphia Police incident reports and 311 service requests within 200m, trailing 12 months. Reported location, not necessarily where an incident occurred.

Schools

The public schools this block is zoned for — its official School District of Philadelphia catchments.

Elementary & Middle · K-8
General George G Meade
1600 N 18th St · 256 students
High
Vaux Big Picture High School

Catchment assignments from the School District of Philadelphia via City of Philadelphia open data. Confirm with the District before enrollment decisions.

What it's worth, and where taxes are going

Median assessed value · 2016–2027

$0$250K$500K$252K2016: $99K2017: $99K2018: $139K2019: $175K2020: $181K2021: $190K2022: $190K2023: $269K2024: $271K2025: $295K2026: $297K2027: $252K2016202020232027

▲ +156% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$250$500$2322023: $2342024: $3162025: $3322026: $3322027: $2322023202420262027

▼ -1% since 2023 · ~0%/yr

7
7 properties on this block carry a tax abatement or major exemption. New construction and gut rehabs get the improvement value exempted for up to 10 years, so their tax bills sit far below their real value — block-wide, exemptions keep about $50,556 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:

6 homes pay the full 1.40%14 pay less
$2,562pays now $7,951at the full rate

The starkest example: 1250 N 18th St is assessed at $568K but pays $2,562 a year — about 32% of the $7,951 it would owe at the full rate, because its new-construction value is abated for 10 years.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +8.9% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510050020162019202220252027This block 256 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $256 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+8.9%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+156%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+8.9%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+5.9%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+2.4 pts
market 6.5%/yr

Return is from assessed-value history (a proxy for market price, lumpy in reassessment years); rental yield is estimated from ACS area rents. Informational only, not investment advice.

How often it changes hands

This block has recorded 14 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 11 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$100K$200K20002005201020152020
14arm's-length sales since 1999
0times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
11homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 20 parcels

Owner-occupied: 1Investor / LLC: 5Absentee individual: 7Vacant: 7 20parcels
  • Owner-occupied 1
  • Investor / LLC 5
  • Absentee individual 7
  • Vacant 7

Value distribution today

3 parcels6 parcels2 parcels3 parcels3 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$67K$568K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Saint Joseph'S Preparator (individual)424$4.5Mphila.gov ↗
Sjc Real Estate LLC119$4.2Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Rcms Properties LLC111$4.5Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
St Joseph'S Preparatory S (individual)29$1.5Mphila.gov ↗
Slc Real Estate LLC17$894Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
10th Fairmount LLC14$1.4Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Rev Michael H Jordan (individual)33$567Kphila.gov ↗
Hitech International Resources LLC11$67Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

The mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill — for an LLC, often the closest public record gets to the person behind it. "Registry" searches the owner's name in state incorporation records (OpenCorporates).

House by house

All 20 homes on the block — value and 12-year trajectory, ownership, and the paper trail on the ones that were bought, built, torn down, or flipped. Sorted up the street; each links to its full city record — or download the roster (CSV).

Every house's assessed value, 2016–2027 — each line is one home

$0$1.0M$2.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1214 N 18TH ST Vacant $115K —/— 0
1216 N 18TH ST Vacant $189K —/— 0
1218 N 18TH ST Vacant $189K —/— 0
1220 N 18TH ST Vacant $189K —/— 0
1222 N 18TH ST Vacant $189K —/— 0
1224 N 18TH ST Vacant $189K —/— 0
1226-28 N 18TH ST Owner-occupied $656K 10/4 6,820 1915 0
1230 N 18TH ST Vacant $132K —/— 0
1232 N 18TH ST Traded 2×: $50K in 2011 → $175K in 2012 (+250%). Absentee individual $318K 3/1 2,595 1915 2
1234 N 18TH ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $45K in 2004. Absentee individual $308K 3/1 2,409 1915 1 abated
1236 N 18TH ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $20K in 1999. Absentee individual $389K 5/2 2,808 1912 1 abated
1240 N 18TH ST Traded 3×: $70K in 2002 → $152K in 2013 (+117%). Absentee individual $151K 5/2 1,800 1915 3
1242 N 18TH ST Investor / LLC $386K 4/2 1,845 1915 1 rented
1244 N 18TH ST Investor / LLC $67K —/— 1,845 1920 1
1246 N 18TH ST built new under a 2007 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $252K —/— 1,845 1915 0 abated
1248 N 18TH ST built new under a 2024 permit, sold for $150K in 2023. Investor / LLC $252K —/— 1,845 1915 1
1250 N 18TH ST built new under a 2022 permit (tax-abated). Investor / LLC $568K 6/6 2,376 1915 2 rentedabated
1252 N 18TH ST Bought for $7K in 2015, built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated). Investor / LLC $536K 6/— 2,330 2023 2 rentedabated
1254 N 18TH ST Absentee individual $398K 2/2 1,758 2020 0 abated
1254 N 18TH ST built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $332K 2/2 1,324 2020 0 abated

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records  ·  Download this block's data (CSV)

Where this comes from

City datasets are fetched live from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and cached briefly. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.