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Who owns your block

1700 block of W Glenwood Ave

An investor-heavy block: 40% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 3 homes behind $20,087 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 258% since 2016, now about $88K. Property taxes are climbing about 13% a year though the increases have eased lately.

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
$88K
$65K–$105K
ZIP median $79K
Price / sq ft
$79
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.4×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$2K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $88K
Tax / yr
$1K
typical · up to $1K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 5
$1K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
60%
3 of 5
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$20K
3 of 5 behind
▲ block 60% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+3%
value · tax +$52
5 years
+135%
value · tax +$725
10 years
+258%
value · tax +$913

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 $88K — about 0.4× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19132 median of $79K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19132 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19132Philadelphia
Median home value$88K$79K$223K
Owner-occupied20%26%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 200 reported crimes (87 violent) and 260 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
200
87 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
260
65 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults48
All Other Offenses37
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief21
Aggravated Assault No Firearm17
Thefts12
Burglary Residential9

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint67
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection43
Construction Complaints28
Illegal Dumping22
Abandoned Vehicle21
Information Request15

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
Tanner Duckrey
1501 W Diamond St · 402 students
High
Mastery Charter School At Gratz

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$50K$100K$88K2016: $25K2017: $25K2018: $25K2019: $36K2020: $38K2021: $38K2022: $38K2023: $68K2024: $63K2025: $85K2026: $85K2027: $88K2016202020232027

▲ +258% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,2252016: $3122017: $3122018: $3122019: $4842020: $5002021: $5002022: $5002023: $8852024: $4202025: $1,1732026: $1,1732027: $1,2252016202020232027

▲ +293% since 2016 · ~+13%/yr

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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 $1,400 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +12.3% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510050020162019202220252027This block 358 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $358 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+12.3%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+258%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+12.3%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+9.3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+5.8 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 2 arm's-length sales since 2007. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$25K$50K20072010201320162019
2arm's-length sales since 2007
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
3homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 5 parcels

Owner-occupied: 3Absentee individual: 1Vacant: 1 5parcels
  • Owner-occupied 3
  • Absentee individual 1
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels2 parcels
$65K$94K+

The block's largest owner, Lunvest LLC, carries 7 open violations across 7 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Lunvest LLC17$461Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Gem 1718 LLC11$88Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

The mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill — for an LLC, often the closest public record gets to the person behind it. "Registry" searches the owner's name in state incorporation records (OpenCorporates).

House by house

All 5 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$100K$200K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1702 W GLENWOOD AVE Owner pulled a demolition permit in 2019. Vacant $65K —/— 0 tax lien
1706 W GLENWOOD AVE sold $43K (2007); 2 L&I violations (2008); 8 L&I violations (2010). Owner-occupied $88K 3/1 1,110 1915 1 tax lien
1714 W GLENWOOD AVE Absentee individual $94K 3/1 1,110 1915 1
1718 W GLENWOOD AVE Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2025. Owner-occupied $88K 3/1 1,300 1915 0
1726 W GLENWOOD AVE built new under a 2012 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $105K 4/1 1,710 1915 0 abated

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.