Who owns your block
1200 block of Wallace St
A mixed-ownership block: 36% owner-occupied, 21% investor-held, with 3 homes behind $32,240 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 232% since 2016, now about $412K. Property taxes are climbing about 12% a year and the increases are speeding up.
- Owner-occupied
- Investor / LLC
- Absentee
- Vacant
- Has violations
By the Numbers
How fast it's moving
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.
- 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 $412K — about 1.8× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19123 median of $455K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19123 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19123 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $412K | $455K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 7% | 23% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 104 reported crimes (37 violent) and 177 resident 311 requests to the city.
Most reported crimes
Top 311 complaints
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
- $412K typical home, up +232% since 2016
- Tax bill $1,112 to $4,024 a year, +12%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $6.4M assessed, $60,613/yr to the city, about $4,330 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +232% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +262% since 2016 · ~+12%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
1214-16 Wallace St is assessed at $1.2M but pays $6,647 a year — about 40% of the $16,617 it would owe at the statutory rate, because its new-construction value is abated.
The block as an asset
Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +11.5% 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 $332 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 8 arm's-length sales since 2009. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 7 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 14 parcels
- Owner-occupied 5
- Investor / LLC 3
- Absentee individual 4
- Vacant 2
Value distribution today
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bamboo Properties Llc | 1 | 3 | $2.2M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Continuum At Wallace Street Llc | 1 | 1 | $544K | phila.gov ↗ |
| St Jospeh Property Holdings 2 Llc | 1 | 1 | $473K | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 14 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
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1206 WALLACE ST | Vacant | $241K | —/— | — | — | 1 | |
| 1208 WALLACE ST | Owner-occupied | $423K | —/— | 2,142 | 1920 | 0 | abated |
| 1210 WALLACE ST Historysold $139K (2014); Appeal filed (2025). | Absentee individual | $463K | —/— | 1,998 | 1920 | 1 | rented |
| 1212 WALLACE ST Torn down & rebuiltOld house bought for $110K in 2011, demolished in 2012. | Owner-occupied | $640K | 5/3 | 3,426 | 2015 | 1 | rented |
| 1214-16 WALLACE ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated). | Investor / LLC | $1.2M | —/— | 9,050 | 2016 | 0 | abated |
| 1218-20 WALLACE ST Historysold $320K (2011); Appeal granted with conditions (2011); Appeal granted (2013); Appeal granted with conditions (2019); Appeal granted (2019); Appeal approved (2020); Appeal granted with conditions (2024). | Absentee individual | $400K | —/— | 4,256 | 1940 | 1 | |
| 1222 WALLACE ST TradedTraded 2×: $62K in 2009 → $465K in 2017 (+656%). | Absentee individual | $721K | 4/2 | 2,520 | 2009 | 2 | rented |
| 1224 WALLACE ST New constructionBought for $2K in 2009, built new (tax-abated). | Investor / LLC | $544K | 3/2 | 1,419 | 2019 | 1 | rentedabatedtax lien |
| 1226 WALLACE ST Historysold $114K (2009); Appeal granted with conditions (2010). | Absentee individual | $334K | —/— | 1,488 | 1920 | 1 | |
| 1228 WALLACE ST | Owner-occupied | $289K | —/— | 1,488 | 1920 | 0 | abated |
| 1228R WALLACE ST | Vacant | $103K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1230-36 WALLACE ST HistoryAppeal granted with conditions (2025). | Investor / LLC | $473K | —/— | 2,160 | 1920 | 0 | rentedtax lien |
| 1238 WALLACE ST | Owner-occupied | $228K | —/— | 1,050 | 1920 | 0 | tax lien |
| 1240 WALLACE ST | Owner-occupied | $316K | —/— | 1,812 | 1900 | 0 | abatedtax 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)