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Who owns your block

1600 block of Solly Ave

A mostly owner-occupied block: 70% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 4 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 107% since 2016, now about $388K. Property taxes are climbing about 7% 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
$388K
$369K–$710K
ZIP median $330K
Price / sq ft
$171
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.7×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$800K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $388K
Tax / yr
$5K
typical · up to $10K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 10
$3K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
70%
7 of 10
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
4
L&I code
▲ block 10% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-1%
value · tax −$42
5 years
+72%
value · tax +$2K
10 years
+107%
value · tax +$3K

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.

2027
  • 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 $388K — about 1.7× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19152 median of $330K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19152 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19152Philadelphia
Median home value$388K$330K$223K
Owner-occupied30%59%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 29 reported crimes (5 violent) and 55 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
29
5 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
55
9 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft10
Other Assaults5
Thefts5
All Other Offenses3
Theft from Vehicle3
Fraud2

Top 311 complaints

Abandoned Vehicle9
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection8
Street Defect7
Maintenance Complaint6
Street Light Outage6
Other (Streets)5

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 · K-8
Louis H Farrell
8300 Castor Ave · 1255 students
High · 9-12
Northeast High
1601 Cottman Ave · 185 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$388K2016: $188K2017: $188K2018: $188K2019: $211K2020: $226K2021: $226K2022: $226K2023: $300K2024: $300K2025: $391K2026: $391K2027: $388K2016202020232027

▲ +107% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$5,4062016: $2,5812017: $2,6112018: $2,6112019: $2,9372020: $3,1362021: $3,1362022: $3,1362023: $4,1592024: $4,1592025: $5,4482026: $5,4482027: $5,4062016202020232027

▲ +109% since 2016 · ~+7%/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 $3,200 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
$5,951pays now $6,351at the full rate

1623-25 Solly Ave is assessed at $454K but pays $5,951 a year — about 94% of the $6,351 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 tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 207 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $207 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+6.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+107%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+6.8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+3.8%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+0.3 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 12 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 2 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$500K$1.0M20052010201520202025
12arm's-length sales since 2001
1times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
2homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 10 parcels

Owner-occupied: 7Absentee individual: 3 10parcels
  • Owner-occupied 7
  • Absentee individual 3

Value distribution today

2 parcels4 parcels1 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$369K$454K+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

House by house

All 10 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$500K$1.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1615 SOLLY AVE Absentee individual $407K 1,070 2005 1
1617 SOLLY AVE Traded 2×: $41K in 2005 → $800K in 2026 (+1832%). Owner-occupied $710K 4,290 2004 2 tax lien
1619 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $388K 2,240 1960 1 4 viol
1621 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $388K 2,240 1960 1
1623-25 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $454K 4,240 1960 0 abated
1627 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $369K 2,240 1960 0
1629 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $379K 2,240 1960 1
1631 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $385K 2,240 1960 1
1633 SOLLY AVE Traded 4×: $219K in 2006 → $418K in 2022 (+91%). Absentee individual $384K 2,240 1960 4
1635 SOLLY AVE Absentee individual $393K 2,436 1960 1

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.