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Who owns your block

1700 block of S 25th St

An investor-heavy block: 43% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies.

The typical home here is up 134% since 2016, now about $467K. Property taxes are climbing about 8% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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
$467K
$425K–$1.2M
ZIP median $242K
Price / sq ft
$85
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
2.1×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$7K
typical · up to $16K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1925
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
14%
1 of 7
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
4
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 14% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+50%
value · tax +$2K
5 years
+56%
value · tax +$2K
10 years
+134%
value · tax +$4K

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 $467K — about 2.1× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19145 median of $242K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19145 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19145Philadelphia
Median home value$467K$242K$223K
Owner-occupied0%46%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 55 reported crimes (20 violent) and 161 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
55
20 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
161
41 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft9
Other Assaults9
Thefts9
Aggravated Assault No Firearm7
All Other Offenses6
Fraud5

Top 311 complaints

Abandoned Vehicle34
Maintenance Complaint26
Illegal Dumping21
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection13
Other (Streets)10
Street Light Outage9

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
Delaplaine Mcdaniel
1801 S 22nd St · 240 students
High · 9-12
South Philadelphia HS
2101 S Broad St · 647 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$467K2016: $200K2017: $200K2018: $318K2019: $300K2020: $300K2021: $300K2022: $300K2023: $318K2024: $318K2025: $312K2026: $312K2027: $467K2016202020232027

▲ +134% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$6,5432016: $2,8002017: $2,8002018: $4,4542019: $4,1952020: $4,1952021: $4,1952022: $4,1952023: $4,4512024: $4,4512025: $4,3602026: $4,3602027: $6,5432016202020232027

▲ +134% since 2016 · ~+8%/yr

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 234 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $234 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+134%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+5%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+1.5 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 2003. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 4 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$500K$1.0M20042008201220162020
4arm's-length sales since 2003
0times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
4homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 7 parcels

Owner-occupied: 1Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 3Vacant: 2 7parcels
  • Owner-occupied 1
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 3
  • Vacant 2

Value distribution today

4 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$425K$799K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Paul J Sabelli (individual)24$4.1Mphila.gov ↗
P Joseph Properties Inc12$795Kphila.gov ↗
H&M Development Llc11$453Kphila.gov ↗
1715 S 25th St Llc11$467Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 7 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
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1701 S 25TH ST Bought for $300K in 2020, built new under a 2008 permit, sold for $788K in 2021. Vacant $453K 2
1708-14 S 25TH ST Owner-occupied $799K 9,984 1925 1
1715 S 25TH ST built new under a 2020 permit, sold for $300K in 2017. Vacant $467K 1
1716 S 25TH ST Owner pulled a operations permit in 2018. Absentee individual $425K 5,000 1930 0
1717-23 S 25TH ST Owner pulled a suppression permit in 2016. Absentee individual $573K 4,981 1930 0
1725-31 S 25TH ST L&I violation (2017); L&I violation (2018); 3 L&I violations (2021); 5 L&I violations (2024). Absentee individual $1.2M 11,536 1925 0
1730 S 25TH ST Owner pulled a change of use permit in 2026. Investor / LLC $441K 5,530 1925 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)

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.