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Who owns your block

1200 block of W Cumberland St

A mixed-ownership block: 38% owner-occupied, 25% investor-held, with 6 parcels behind $42,998 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 108% since 2016, now about $38K. Property taxes are climbing about 18% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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By the Numbers

Median value
$38K
$9K–$193K
ZIP median $83K
Price / sq ft
$85
typical home
city median $181
Vs. Philadelphia
0.2×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$63K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $38K
Tax / yr
$531
typical · up to $3K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
4 of 16
$8K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
38%
3 of 16
city 41%
Rentals
13%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$43K
6 of 16 behind
▲ block 38% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 6% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-7%
value · tax −$243
5 years
+176%
value · tax +$206
10 years
-7%
value · tax +$84

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 $38K — about 0.2× the citywide median home, and below the ZIP 19133 median of $83K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19133 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19133Philadelphia
Median home value$38K$83K$223K
Owner-occupied19%18%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 125 reported crimes (58 violent) and 478 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
125
58 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
478
72 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults35
Motor Vehicle Theft16
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief14
Aggravated Assault No Firearm10
Burglary Residential10
All Other Offenses8

Top 311 complaints

Information Request219
Maintenance Complaint79
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection55
Illegal Dumping22
Abandoned Vehicle14
Salting14

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
Mastery Charter School At Clymer
Middle & High
Mastery Charter School At Gratz

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$50K$100K$38K2016: $18K2017: $41K2018: $14K2019: $14K2020: $14K2021: $14K2022: $14K2023: $38K2024: $38K2025: $41K2026: $41K2027: $38K2016202020232027

▲ +108% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$500$1,000$2732016: $452017: $1892018: $1862019: $1772020: $1602021: $1602022: $672023: $672024: $2632025: $5162026: $5162027: $2732016202020232027

▲ +507% since 2016 · ~+18%/yr

4
4 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 $7,733 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:

7 homes pay the full 1.40%9 pay less
$467pays now $2,210at the full rate

The starkest example: 1217 W Cumberland St is assessed at $158K but pays $467 a year — about 21% of the $2,210 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 tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.9% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

7510025020162019202220252027This block 208 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $208 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+6.9%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+108%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+6.9%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+3.9%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+0.4 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 4 arm's-length sales since 2005. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 13 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$50K$100K20082012201620202024
4arm's-length sales since 2005
0times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
13homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 16 parcels

Owner-occupied: 3Investor / LLC: 2Vacant: 11 16parcels
  • Owner-occupied 3
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Vacant 11

Value distribution today

1 parcels10 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$9K$158K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Philadelphia Land Bank (individual)32498$133Mphila.gov ↗
T&I Development LLC180$13Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Gnr Merav 2a LLC160$10Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Strategic Equity Group In127$1.4Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Blake & Mitchell Co114$1.9Mphila.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 16 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$125K$250K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1211 W CUMBERLAND ST Bought for $32K in 2022, built new under a 2024 permit, sold for $63K in 2025. Vacant $38K —/— 2 tax lien
1213 W CUMBERLAND ST 3 L&I violations (2008); 2 L&I violations (2019); L&I violation (2021); L&I violation (2025). Vacant $38K —/— 0 tax lien
1215 W CUMBERLAND ST 3 L&I violations (2008); L&I violation (2021); L&I violation (2025). Vacant $38K —/— 0
1217 W CUMBERLAND ST built new under a 2007 permit (tax-abated). Investor / LLC $158K 3/1 1,293 1925 0 rentedabated
1219 W CUMBERLAND ST built new (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $71K 3/1 1,293 1925 0 abatedtax lien
1221 W CUMBERLAND ST Bought for $55K in 2023. Owner pulled a change of use permit in 2023. Investor / LLC $193K 3/2 1,153 1925 1 rented
1223 W CUMBERLAND ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $25K in 2005. Owner-occupied $106K 3/1 1,293 1915 1 abated
1225 W CUMBERLAND ST Owner pulled a demolition permit in 2018. Vacant $38K —/— 0 tax lien
1227 W CUMBERLAND ST Owner-occupied $101K 3/1 1,188 1925 0 abated
1229 W CUMBERLAND ST Owner pulled a demolition permit in 2018. Vacant $38K —/— 0 tax lien
1231 W CUMBERLAND ST 3 L&I violations (2008); 2 L&I violations (2011); 2 L&I violations (2013); 2 L&I violations (2019). Vacant $37K —/— 0 tax lien
1233 W CUMBERLAND ST 2 L&I violations (2011); 2 L&I violations (2013); 2 L&I violations (2019). Vacant $37K —/— 0 tax lien
1235 W CUMBERLAND ST 3 L&I violations (2008); 2 L&I violations (2011); 2 L&I violations (2013). Vacant $37K —/— 0 tax lien
1237 W CUMBERLAND ST 2 L&I violations (2011); 2 L&I violations (2013). Vacant $37K —/— 0
1239 W CUMBERLAND ST Vacant $37K —/— 0
1241-43 W CUMBERLAND ST 2 L&I violations (2013); 2 L&I violations (2014); 2 L&I violations (2019). Vacant $9K —/— 0

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Generated 2026-07-09 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. Dossiers re-pull automatically — on view once they're a few weeks old, plus a nightly rolling sweep — and citywide benchmarks recompute weekly; the masthead date is when this page's records were last pulled. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.