1200 block of S Bonsall St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $270K — about 1.2× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19146 median of $364K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19146 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 130 reported crimes (25 violent) and 295 resident 311 requests to the city.

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.

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

• $270K typical home, up +192% since 2016
• Tax bill $1,280 to $2,373 a year, +6%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $21M assessed, $180,958/yr to the city, about $2,445 per home

Who really pays — each home's tax bill as a share of its value

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. On this block, 27 of 74 homes pay that full rate — and 47 pay less, because abatements and exemptions shrink the taxed value. Each dot is one home; the further left, the less of its value it pays. Hover a dot for the house.

The starkest example: 1269 S Bonsall St is assessed at $522K but pays $1,461 a year — about 20% of the $7,303 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 +10.2% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $292 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

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 133 arm's-length sales since 1970. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window, while 22 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

The block's largest owner, Ginark Investment And Management LP, carries 34 open violations across 60 properties it owns around the city.

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 74 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

Worth a look

Torn down & rebuilt

1258 S Bonsall St

$260K · Old house bought for $38K in 2015, demolished and rebuilt (2015), then sold for $290K in 2016.

New construction

1269 S Bonsall St

$522K · Bought for $10K in 2016, built new under a 2018 permit (tax-abated), sold for $489K in 2022.

New construction

1242 S Bonsall St

$496K · Bought for $115K in 2016, built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated), sold for $308K in 2018.

New construction

1260 S Bonsall St

$487K · Bought for $36K in 2006, built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated), sold for $240K in 2018.

New construction

1268 S Bonsall St

$470K · Bought for $35K in 2003, built new under a 2018 permit (tax-abated), sold for $507K in 2020.

New construction

1209 S Bonsall St

$462K · Bought for $25K in 2005, built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated), sold for $477K in 2020.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.