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Who owns your block

1200 block of N St Bernard St

A mixed-ownership block: 38% owner-occupied, 14% investor-held, with 16 open code violations and 3 homes behind $5,060 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 259% since 2016, now about $101K. Property taxes are climbing about 3% a year though the increases have eased lately.

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
$101K
$15K–$122K
ZIP median $156K
Price / sq ft
$94
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.5×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$77K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $101K
Tax / yr
$242
typical · up to $2K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
8 of 21
$11K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
38%
8 of 21
city 41%
Rentals
5%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
16
L&I code
▲ block 10% · city 5%
Back taxes
$5K
3 of 21 behind
▲ block 14% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+11%
value · tax −$9
5 years
+119%
value · tax +$124
10 years
+259%
value · tax +$54

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 $101K — about 0.5× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19131 median of $156K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19131 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19131Philadelphia
Median home value$101K$156K$223K
Owner-occupied38%42%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 78 reported crimes (32 violent) and 280 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
78
32 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
280
64 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults24
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief13
All Other Offenses11
Fraud7
Aggravated Assault No Firearm4
Motor Vehicle Theft4

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection71
Maintenance Complaint56
Illegal Dumping30
Abandoned Vehicle29
Sanitation Violation20
Construction Complaints12

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
Rudolph Blankenburg
4600 W Girard Ave · 228 students
High · 9-12
Overbrook High
5898 Lancaster Ave · 466 students

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$100K$200K$101K2016: $28K2017: $28K2018: $28K2019: $36K2020: $46K2021: $46K2022: $46K2023: $68K2024: $68K2025: $91K2026: $91K2027: $101K2016202020232027

▲ +259% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$125$250$2212016: $1672017: $1672018: $1672019: $1402020: $972021: $972022: $972023: $2382024: $2202025: $2302026: $2302027: $2212016202020232027

▲ +32% since 2016 · ~+3%/yr

8
8 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 $10,706 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:

13 homes pay the full 1.40%8 pay less
$221pays now $1,621at the full rate

The starkest example: 1217 N Saint Bernard St is assessed at $116K but pays $221 a year — about 14% of the $1,621 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 +12.3% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510050020162019202220252027This block 359 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $359 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+12.3%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+259%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+12.3%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+9.3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+5.8 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 5 arm's-length sales since 2019. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 16 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$50K$100K2020202220242026
5arm's-length sales since 2019
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
16homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 21 parcels

Owner-occupied: 8Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 8Vacant: 4 21parcels
  • Owner-occupied 8
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 8
  • Vacant 4

Value distribution today

4 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels6 parcels2 parcels9 parcels
$15K$116K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Ira Development LLC153$14Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
1224 N Brandon P2 LLC11$106Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
East Street Properties LLC11$82Kphila.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 21 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$100K$200K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1206 N SAINT BERNARD ST Vacant $16K —/— 0 tax lien
1208 N SAINT BERNARD ST Vacant $16K —/— 0 tax lien
1209 N SAINT BERNARD ST Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 1,088 1925 0 abated
1210 N SAINT BERNARD ST Owner-occupied $101K 3/1 1,072 1925 0 abated
1211 N SAINT BERNARD ST Absentee individual $109K 3/1 1,232 1925 0 12 violtax lien
1212 N SAINT BERNARD ST Absentee individual $83K 3/1 842 1925 0
1213 N SAINT BERNARD ST Absentee individual $104K 3/1 1,088 1925 1
1214 N SAINT BERNARD ST Owner-occupied $83K 3/1 842 1925 0 abated
1215 N SAINT BERNARD ST Vacant $17K —/— 0 tax lien
1216 N SAINT BERNARD ST Absentee individual $83K 3/1 842 1925 1
1217 N SAINT BERNARD ST Owner-occupied $116K 3/1 1,354 1925 0 abated
1218 N SAINT BERNARD ST Absentee individual $102K 3/1 1,084 1925 0
1219 N SAINT BERNARD ST Absentee individual $122K 3/1 1,376 1925 1
1220 N SAINT BERNARD ST Owner-occupied $101K 3/1 1,078 1925 0 abated
1221 N SAINT BERNARD ST Owner-occupied $113K 3/1 1,334 1925 0 abatedtax lien
1222 N SAINT BERNARD ST Absentee individual $102K 3/1 1,114 1925 0
1224 N SAINT BERNARD ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $77K in 2026. Owner-occupied $106K 3/1 1,240 1925 1 abated
1226 N SAINT BERNARD ST Owner-occupied $82K 3/1 812 1925 0 abated
1228 N SAINT BERNARD ST Investor / LLC $82K 3/1 812 1925 1 rented
1230 N SAINT BERNARD ST Absentee individual $82K 3/1 812 1925 0 4 viol
1232 N SAINT BERNARD ST Vacant $15K —/— 0 tax lien

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.