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Who owns your block

1200 block of St James St

An investor-heavy block: 43% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies.

The typical home here is up 34% since 2016, now about $424K. Property taxes are climbing about 2% a year.

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
$424K
$345K–$1.8M
ZIP median $395K
Price / sq ft
$446
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.9×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$50K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $424K
Tax / yr
$5K
typical · up to $25K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 7
$6K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
29%
2 of 7
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$0
5 years
+14%
value · tax +$472
10 years
+34%
value · tax +$972

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

How the block compares

The typical home here is $424K — about 1.9× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19107 median of $395K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19107 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19107Philadelphia
Median home value$424K$395K$223K
Owner-occupied29%20%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 651 reported crimes (164 violent) and 536 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
651
164 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
536
53 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts269
All Other Offenses98
Other Assaults91
Aggravated Assault No Firearm31
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief30
Robbery No Firearm28

Top 311 complaints

Information Request101
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection84
Illegal Dumping55
Maintenance Complaint29
Graffiti Removal28
Street Light Outage28

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
General George A Mccall
High · 9-12
Benjamin HS Franklin
616 N 15th St · 975 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$250K$500K$424K2016: $317K2017: $317K2018: $317K2019: $360K2020: $372K2021: $372K2022: $372K2023: $375K2024: $375K2025: $424K2026: $424K2027: $424K2016202020232027

▲ +34% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$5,4052016: $4,4332017: $4,4332018: $4,4332019: $5,0392020: $5,2072021: $4,9332022: $4,9332023: $5,1152024: $5,1152025: $5,4052026: $5,4052027: $5,4052016202020232027

▲ +22% since 2016 · ~+2%/yr

1
1 property 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 $5,613 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +2.7% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 134 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $134 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+2.7%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+34%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+2.7%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-0.3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-3.8 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 4 arm's-length sales since 2019. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$1.0M$2.0M202020222024
4arm's-length sales since 2019
1times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
3homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 7 parcels

Owner-occupied: 2Investor / LLC: 3Absentee individual: 2 7parcels
  • Owner-occupied 2
  • Investor / LLC 3
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$345K$486K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
1219 Locust Llc23$1.9Mphila.gov ↗
Esbert Llc11$1.8Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 7 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
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1206 SAINT JAMES ST Owner-occupied $424K 1/1 842 1920 1
1208 SAINT JAMES ST Owner-occupied $486K 2/1 938 1920 1
1210 SAINT JAMES ST Investor / LLC $419K 3/1 938 1920 0 abated
1212 SAINT JAMES ST Investor / LLC $422K 3/1 938 1920 1
1219-29 SAINT JAMES ST Owner pulled a commercial make safe permit permit in 2024. Investor / LLC $1.8M —/— 11,056 1920 0
1231 SAINT JAMES ST Absentee individual $469K —/— 1,143 1920 1
1233 SAINT JAMES ST Absentee individual $345K —/— 1,287 1920 0

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.