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Who owns your block

1600 block of Wallace St

A mixed-ownership block: 3% owner-occupied, 24% investor-held, with 29 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 22% since 2016, now about $584K.

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
$584K
$44K–$1.0M
ZIP median $457K
Price / sq ft
$185
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
2.6×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$9K
typical · up to $14K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
15 of 29
$113K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
3%
1 of 29
city 41%
Rentals
38%
11 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
29
L&I code
▲ block 14% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
10
7 homes · ZBA & boards
block 24% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+3%
value · tax +$0
5 years
+15%
value · tax +$0
10 years
+22%
value · tax +$0

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 $584K — about 2.6× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19130 median of $457K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19130 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19130Philadelphia
Median home value$584K$457K$223K
Owner-occupied0%37%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 91 reported crimes (17 violent) and 248 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
91
17 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
248
28 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft20
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief18
Thefts12
Other Assaults9
Burglary Residential6
Theft from Vehicle6

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection52
Street Defect36
Sanitation Violation29
Graffiti Removal23
Salting16
Maintenance Complaint15

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
Laura W Waring
1801 Green St · 170 students
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$500K$1.0M$584K2016: $480K2017: $480K2018: $474K2019: $419K2020: $470K2021: $506K2022: $506K2023: $557K2024: $557K2025: $566K2026: $566K2027: $584K2016202020232027

▲ +22% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

Not enough history yet.

15
15 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 $113,361 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%
$5,503pays now $14,522at the full rate

1629 Wallace St is assessed at $1.0M but pays $5,503 a year — about 38% of the $14,522 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +1.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

8710025020162019202220252027This block 122 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $122 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+1.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+22%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+1.8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-1.2%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-4.7 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 23 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 16 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$500K$1.0M20002005201020152020
23arm's-length sales since 1999
0times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
16homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 29 parcels

Owner-occupied: 1Investor / LLC: 6Absentee individual: 19Vacant: 3 29parcels
  • Owner-occupied 1
  • Investor / LLC 6
  • Absentee individual 19
  • Vacant 3

Value distribution today

4 parcels0 parcels0 parcels10 parcels9 parcels2 parcels4 parcels
$44K$955K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Wallace St Development Ll44$2.7Mphila.gov ↗
Cedar Apartments Llc13$1.8Mphila.gov ↗
Glory Investment Llc12$1.4Mphila.gov ↗
1422 Front Llc11$1.0Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 29 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

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1601 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $983K —/— 4,725 1920 0
1603 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $872K —/— 4,200 1915 0 abated
1604 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $584K —/— 3,150 1890 0 rented
1605 WALLACE ST Traded 2×: $53K in 2000 → $600K in 2007 (+1032%). Investor / LLC $675K 6/3 3,300 1920 2 rented
1606 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $584K —/— 3,150 1890 0 rented
1607 WALLACE ST Traded 2×: $338K in 1999 → $600K in 2007 (+78%). Investor / LLC $675K 3/3 3,300 1920 2 rented
1608 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $584K —/— 3,150 1915 0 rented
1609 WALLACE ST Traded 2×: $338K in 1999 → $600K in 2007 (+78%). Investor / LLC $675K 6/3 3,300 1920 2 rented
1610 WALLACE ST Vacant $476K —/— 1
1611 WALLACE ST Traded 2×: $338K in 1999 → $600K in 2007 (+78%). Investor / LLC $675K 5/3 3,195 1920 2 rented
1612 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $44K —/— 4,888 1915 0 abated
1613 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $460K —/— 2,790 1915 0 abated
1614 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $668K —/— 3,150 1915 0 abated
1615 WALLACE ST built new (tax-abated). Absentee individual $44K —/— 3,195 1915 0 abated
1616 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $66K —/— 4,210 1915 0 abated
1617 WALLACE ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $700 in 2004. Absentee individual $495K —/— 2,400 1915 1 abated5 viol
1618 WALLACE ST Vacant $476K —/— 1
1619 WALLACE ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $65K in 2004. Absentee individual $131K —/— 7,571 1915 1 abated
1620 WALLACE ST Vacant $509K —/— 1
1622 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $528K —/— 3,600 1915 0 abated
1623 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $462K —/— 3,060 1915 0 abated2 viol
1624 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $803K —/— 4,840 1915 0 abated
1625 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $725K —/— 2,895 1920 1 rented
1626 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $485K —/— 3,150 1915 0 abated16 viol
1627 WALLACE ST Traded 3×: $78K in 2002 → $398K in 2014 (+410%). Investor / LLC $655K —/— 3,000 1996 3 rented
1628 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $453K —/— 3,150 1915 0 abated
1629 WALLACE ST Bought for $80K in 2006, built new (tax-abated), sold for $390K in 2016. Investor / LLC $1.0M —/— 6,112 1915 2 rentedabated
1630 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $482K —/— 3,150 1915 0 abated6 viol
1631 WALLACE ST Traded 4×: $148K in 2000 → $858K in 2021 (+480%). Owner-occupied $955K —/— 3,660 1915 4 rented

Neighborhood

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Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records  ·  Download this block's data (CSV)

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