Who owns your block
1500 block of S 25th St
A mixed-ownership block: 54% owner-occupied, 22% investor-held.
The typical home here is up 594% since 2016, now about $406K. Property taxes are climbing about 32% a year though the increases have eased lately.
- 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 2022 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 $406K — about 1.8× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19146 median of $364K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19146 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19146 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $406K | $364K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 0% | 29% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 143 reported crimes (27 violent) and 258 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
- $406K typical home, up +594% since 2016
- Tax bill $280 to $1,136 a year, +32%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $14M assessed, $38,776/yr to the city, about $1,077 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +594% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +306% since 2022 · ~+32%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
1509 S 25th St is assessed at $556K but pays $1,555 a year — about 20% of the $7,776 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 +19.3% 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 $694 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 1 arm's-length sale since 2017. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 36 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Few recorded sales.
Who owns it
Ownership of 37 parcels
- Owner-occupied 20
- Investor / LLC 7
- Absentee individual 4
- Vacant 6
Value distribution today
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knossos Development Llc | 7 | 22 | $11M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Bootstrap Bowtie 1031 Eas (individual) | 9 | 11 | $2.9M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Angela Kapalko (individual) | 2 | 2 | $423K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Mfpc Grays Pointe Llc | 1 | 1 | $406K | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 37 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
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1500 S 25TH ST New constructionBought for $900K in 2017, built new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). | Owner-occupied | $415K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 1 | abated |
| 1502 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $415K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1504 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $415K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1506 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $415K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1508 S 25TH ST | Vacant | $17K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1508 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1509 S 25TH ST | Investor / LLC | $556K | 4/— | 2,583 | 2025 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1509 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2021 permit (tax-abated). | Investor / LLC | $556K | 4/— | 2,583 | 2025 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1509 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2022 permit. | Vacant | — | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1509 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2021 permit (tax-abated). | Investor / LLC | $556K | 4/— | 2,583 | 2025 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1509 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2021 permit (tax-abated). | Investor / LLC | $556K | 4/— | 2,583 | 2025 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1509 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2021 permit (tax-abated). | Investor / LLC | $556K | 4/— | 2,583 | 2025 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1509 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2021 permit (tax-abated). | Investor / LLC | $556K | 4/— | 2,583 | 2025 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1510 S 25TH ST | Absentee individual | $406K | 6/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1512 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1514 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2022 permit (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1515-33 S 25TH ST History2 L&I violations incl EXTERIOR STRUCT UNSAFE COND 7 (2017); 2 L&I violations (2019). | Vacant | $252K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1516 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1518 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1518 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit. | Vacant | $17K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1520 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1522 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1524 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1526 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1528 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1530 S 25TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit. | Vacant | $17K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1530 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1532 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1534 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 4/— | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1536 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 4/— | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1538 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1540 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1542 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1544 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1546 S 25TH ST | Owner-occupied | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | abated |
| 1548 S 25TH ST | Investor / LLC | $406K | 3/3 | 1,800 | 2021 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 1548 S 25TH ST | Vacant | $17K | —/— | — | — | 0 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-09 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)