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Who owns your block

1800 block of Spring Garden St

A mixed-ownership block: 33% owner-occupied, 33% investor-held, with 5 open code violations and 1 home behind $285 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 54% since 2016, now about $1.6M. Property taxes are climbing about 5% 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
$1.6M
$16K–$39M
ZIP median $457K
Price / sq ft
$197
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
7.1×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$21K
typical · up to $541K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 12
$24K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
33%
4 of 12
city 41%
Rentals
17%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
5
L&I code
▲ block 8% · city 5%
Back taxes
$285
1 of 12 behind
▼ block 8% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
7
5 homes · ZBA & boards
block 42% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-2%
value · tax −$561
5 years
+11%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+54%
value · tax +$8K

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 $1.6M — about 7.1× 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$1.6M$457K$223K
Owner-occupied8%37%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 79 reported crimes (10 violent) and 158 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
79
10 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
158
10 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft21
Thefts17
Theft from Vehicle7
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief7
Fraud6
Other Assaults5

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection24
Traffic Signal Emergency18
Other (Streets)17
Illegal Dumping14
Street Defect13
Maintenance Complaint9

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$2.5M$5.0M$1.6M2016: $1.0M2017: $1.0M2018: $1.4M2019: $1.4M2020: $1.4M2021: $1.4M2022: $1.4M2023: $1.6M2024: $1.6M2025: $1.6M2026: $1.6M2027: $1.6M2016202020232027

▲ +54% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$12,500$25,000$19,0892016: $11,3182017: $11,3182018: $13,7602019: $15,6672020: $16,0532021: $16,0532022: $18,0212023: $22,6542024: $22,6542025: $22,6792026: $19,6502027: $19,0892016202020232027

▲ +69% since 2016 · ~+5%/yr

1
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 $24,338 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%
$0pays now $22,939at the full rate

1801 Spring Garden St is assessed at $1.6M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $22,939 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 +4% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 154 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $154 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+4%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+54%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+4%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+1%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-2.5 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 7 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 7 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$1.0M$2.0M20042008201220162020
7arm's-length sales since 2002
0times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
7homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 12 parcels

Owner-occupied: 4Investor / LLC: 3Absentee individual: 5 12parcels
  • Owner-occupied 4
  • Investor / LLC 3
  • Absentee individual 5

Value distribution today

2 parcels4 parcels2 parcels1 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$16K$5.6M+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Luthern Associates11$39Mphila.gov ↗
Nette Properties Llc11$5.6Mphila.gov ↗
Lutheran Associates11$16Kphila.gov ↗
Bowser Realty Llc11$1.2Mphila.gov ↗

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

$0$25M$50M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1801 SPRING GARDEN ST built new under a 2023 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $1.6M 28,050 1890 0 abated
1803-05 SPRING GARDEN ST Absentee individual $2.8M 18,360 1968 0
1807 SPRING GARDEN ST Owner-occupied $1.8M 9,720 1967 0
1809 SPRING GARDEN ST Vacant land, last sold for $1.0M in 2007. Absentee individual $1.5M 8,940 2010 1 tax lien
1811-17 SPRING GARDEN ST Bought for $600K in 2002. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2019. Owner-occupied $3.5M 26,300 1890 1
1818-20 SPRING GARDEN ST Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2021. Investor / LLC $39M 189,533 1979 0 5 viol
1819 SPRING GARDEN ST Owner-occupied $1.3M 4,425 1920 0
1821 SPRING GARDEN ST Absentee individual $684K 3,000 1880 0 rented
1822 SPRING GARDEN ST Bought for $1.8M in 2004. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2025. Owner-occupied $5.6M 28,488 1930 2
1822A SPRING GARDEN ST Investor / LLC $16K 0
1823 SPRING GARDEN ST sold $390K (2005); Appeal approved (2007). Absentee individual $997K 3,820 1920 1 rented
1825 SPRING GARDEN ST Traded 2×: $815K in 2016 → $1.4M in 2021 (+75%). Investor / LLC $1.2M 4,566 1920 2

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-08 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.