Who owns your block
1700 block of Spring Garden St
A mixed-ownership block: 54% owner-occupied, 23% investor-held, with 2 open code violations.
The typical home here is up 28% since 2016, now about $829K. Property taxes are climbing about 3% 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 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 $829K — about 3.7× 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 block | ZIP 19130 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $829K | $457K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 15% | 37% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 73 reported crimes (15 violent) and 114 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
- $829K typical home, up +28% since 2016
- Tax bill $8,099 to $10,974 a year, +3%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $134M assessed, $171,764/yr to the city, about $13,213 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +28% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +35% since 2016 · ~+3%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
1700 Spring Garden St is assessed at $122M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $1,702,571 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 +2.3% 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 $128 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed 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 11 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 5 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 13 parcels
- Owner-occupied 7
- Investor / LLC 3
- Absentee individual 3
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Museum Club Lp, carries 4 open violations across 8 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Museum Club Lp | 2 | 8 | $6.2M | phila.gov ↗ |
| 1733 Spring Garden Llc | 1 | 1 | $1.3M | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1700 SPRING GARDEN ST Torn down & rebuiltdemolished and rebuilt (2021). | Owner-occupied | $122M | —/— | 645,694 | 1950 | 0 | abated2 viol |
| 1701-07 SPRING GARDEN ST | Absentee individual | $1.5M | —/— | 10,000 | 1931 | 0 | |
| 1709 SPRING GARDEN ST | Investor / LLC | $767K | —/— | 4,075 | 1880 | 1 | |
| 1711 SPRING GARDEN ST ImprovedOwner pulled a commercial make safe permit permit in 2024. | Owner-occupied | $969K | —/— | 6,159 | 1880 | 0 | rented |
| 1713 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $450K in 2003 → $510K in 2004 (+13%). | Owner-occupied | $784K | —/— | 5,445 | 1880 | 2 | rented |
| 1715 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $249K in 2000 → $436K in 2005 (+75%). | Investor / LLC | $829K | —/— | 4,725 | 1880 | 2 | |
| 1717 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $440K in 2005 → $300K in 2013 (-32%). | Absentee individual | $434K | 1/1 | 1,124 | 1717 | 2 | |
| 1717 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $471K | 2/1 | 1,546 | 1717 | 1 | |
| 1717 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $474K | 2/1 | 1,268 | 1717 | 1 | |
| 1717 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $494K | 1/1 | 1,342 | 1717 | 1 | |
| 1719-29 SPRING GARDEN ST HistoryAppeal approved (2008); Appeal granted with conditions (2021). | Absentee individual | $3.3M | —/— | 18,541 | 1971 | 0 | |
| 1731 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $1.1M | —/— | 5,920 | 1875 | 0 | |
| 1733 SPRING GARDEN ST ImprovedBought for $1.4M in 2015. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2020. | Investor / LLC | $1.3M | —/— | 7,567 | 1920 | 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)