Who owns your block
1800 block of Germantown Ave
An investor-heavy block: 58% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 2 homes behind $8,884 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 430% since 2016, now about $781K. Property taxes are climbing about 9% a year and the increases are speeding up.
- 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 $781K — about 3.5× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19122 median of $278K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19122 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19122 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $781K | $278K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 8% | 21% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 97 reported crimes (24 violent) and 201 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
- $781K typical home, up +430% since 2016
- Tax bill $1,713 to $4,584 a year, +9%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $8.3M assessed, $86,515/yr to the city, about $7,210 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +430% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +168% since 2016 · ~+9%/yr
Who really pays
Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:
- 1851-57 Germantown Avetax-abated new construction0.14%$1,988/yr on $1.4M
- 1808 Germantown Avetax-abated new construction0.28%$2,660/yr on $950K
- 1822 Germantown Aveexemption0.62%$1,127/yr on $181K
The starkest example: 1851-57 Germantown Ave is assessed at $1.4M but pays $1,988 a year — about 10% of the $19,879 it would owe at the full rate, because its new-construction value is abated for 10 years.
The block as an asset
Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +16.4% 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 $530 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced 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 14 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 6 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 12 parcels
- Owner-occupied 2
- Investor / LLC 4
- Absentee individual 3
- Vacant 3
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Fourth St Associates LLC, carries 2 open violations across 4 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fourth St Associates LLC | 1 | 4 | $267K | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| Fu Tian LLC | 1 | 3 | $1.1M | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| Abayomi Abiola (individual) | 2 | 2 | $1.9M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Lin & Sze LLC | 1 | 1 | $1.4M | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| 223 E Thompson Street LLC | 1 | 1 | $292K | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| 1832 Germantown LLC | 1 | 1 | $900K | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| Starlight Investment Group LLC | 1 | 1 | $161K | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| 1854 Germantown Avenue LLC | 1 | 1 | $696K | phila.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 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1808 GERMANTOWN AVE New constructionBought for $550K in 2021, built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated), sold for $970K in 2023. | Absentee individual | $950K | 7/7 | 3,750 | 2023 | 3 | abated |
| 1810 GERMANTOWN AVE New constructionBought for $550K in 2021, built new under a 2019 permit. | Owner-occupied | $950K | 7/7 | 3,750 | 2023 | 2 | |
| 1816 GERMANTOWN AVE New constructionbuilt new under a 2019 permit. | Investor / LLC | $1.4M | —/— | 8,240 | 2021 | 0 | rented |
| 1818-20 GERMANTOWN AVE ImprovedOwner pulled a plumbing permit in 2018. | Investor / LLC | $363K | —/— | 6,048 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
| 1822 GERMANTOWN AVE ImprovedOwner pulled a alteration permit in 2007. | Owner-occupied | $181K | —/— | 2,415 | 1915 | 0 | tax lien |
| 1824-28 GERMANTOWN AVE History3 L&I violations (2007); L&I violation (2008); sold $250K (2012). | Absentee individual | $865K | —/— | 14,420 | 1925 | 1 | |
| 1830 GERMANTOWN AVE Historysold $275K (2019); 2 L&I violations (2025). | Vacant | $292K | —/— | — | — | 1 | |
| 1831-49 GERMANTOWN AVE Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $45K in 1999 → $325K in 2022 (+622%). | Investor / LLC | $144K | —/— | 1,800 | 1925 | 3 | |
| 1832 GERMANTOWN AVE New constructionbuilt new under a 2023 permit. | Vacant | $900K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1848-52 GERMANTOWN AVE History3 L&I violations (2015); 2 L&I violations (2017); L&I violation (2023); 2 L&I violations (2025). | Vacant | $161K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1851-57 GERMANTOWN AVE Torn down & rebuiltdemolished in 2018 and rebuilt (2018). | Absentee individual | $1.4M | —/— | 10,404 | 2019 | 0 | abated |
| 1854 GERMANTOWN AVE ImprovedBought for $5K in 2000. Owner pulled a certificate of occupancy (co) (may inclu… permit in 2025. | Investor / LLC | $696K | 9/6 | 4,572 | 1920 | 4 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
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Generated 2026-07-09 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)