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Who owns your block

1900 block of E Stella St

A mixed-ownership block: 25% owner-occupied, 4% investor-held.

The typical home here is up 64% since 2016, now about $96K. 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
$96K
$90K–$1.2M
ZIP median $113K
Price / sq ft
$82
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.4×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$1K
typical · up to $17K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
3 of 24
$4K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
25%
6 of 24
city 41%
Rentals
71%
17 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
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 4% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+3%
value · tax +$29
5 years
+53%
value · tax +$500
10 years
+64%
value · tax +$579

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 $96K — about 0.4× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19134 median of $113K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19134 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19134Philadelphia
Median home value$96K$113K$223K
Owner-occupied13%29%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 151 reported crimes (62 violent) and 192 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
151
62 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
192
68 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults47
All Other Offenses32
Thefts14
Fraud11
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief9
Motor Vehicle Theft7

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint47
Abandoned Vehicle30
Illegal Dumping18
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection15
Street Defect13
Other (Streets)10

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 · K-4
Frances Willard
1930 E Elkhart St · 352 students
Middle
Memphis St Charter At Jp Jones
High
Kensington Campus

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$100K$200K$96K2016: $58K2017: $58K2018: $58K2019: $59K2020: $63K2021: $63K2022: $63K2023: $86K2024: $86K2025: $94K2026: $94K2027: $96K2016202020232027

▲ +64% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,3342016: $7552017: $7552018: $7662019: $7802020: $8342021: $8342022: $8342023: $1,2032024: $1,2032025: $1,3052026: $1,3052027: $1,3342016202020232027

▲ +77% since 2016 · ~+5%/yr

3
3 properties 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 $4,139 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%
$13pays now $1,412at the full rate

1954 E Stella St is assessed at $101K but pays $13 a year — about 1% of the $1,412 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 +4.6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 164 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $164 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+4.6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+64%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+4.6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+1.6%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1.9 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 9 arm's-length sales since 2005. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 17 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$500K$1.0M2008201220162020
9arm's-length sales since 2005
0times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
17homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 24 parcels

Owner-occupied: 6Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 17 24parcels
  • Owner-occupied 6
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 17

Value distribution today

14 parcels6 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$90K$157K+

The block's largest owner, Steamboat Scm Fund B Llc, carries 3 open violations across 61 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Steamboat Scm Fund B Llc161$5.6Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 24 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

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1930-38 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $1.2M —/— 24,510 1940 0
1931 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $90K 3/1 840 1925 0 rented
1933 E STELLA ST Owner-occupied $90K 3/1 840 1925 0 rentedtax lien
1935 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $90K 3/1 840 1925 0 rented
1937 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $102K 3/1 1,080 1925 0 rented
1939 E STELLA ST Traded 3×: $25K in 2005 → $511K in 2019 (+1943%). Investor / LLC $96K 3/1 960 1925 3 rentedtax lien
1940 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $157K —/— 2,280 1961 0
1941 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $101K 3/1 960 1925 0 rented
1943 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $96K 3/1 986 1925 0 rented
1945 E STELLA ST Owner-occupied $96K 3/1 986 1925 0
1947 E STELLA ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $85K in 2016. Owner-occupied $96K 3/1 986 1925 1 abated
1948 E STELLA ST Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2024. Absentee individual $410K —/— 2,620 1925 0 rented
1949 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $96K 3/1 986 1925 0 rented
1950-52 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $127K —/— 2,620 1925 0 rented
1951 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $91K 3/1 1,148 1925 0 rented
1953 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $92K 3/1 1,202 1925 1 rented
1954 E STELLA ST Owner-occupied $101K 3/1 1,236 1925 0 abated
1955 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $91K 3/1 1,148 1925 1 rented
1956 E STELLA ST Owner-occupied $101K 3/1 1,236 1925 1
1957 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $92K 3/1 1,188 1925 0 rented
1958 E STELLA ST Owner-occupied $100K 3/1 1,208 1925 0 abated
1959 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $91K 3/1 1,162 1925 1 rented
1960 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $102K 3/1 1,284 1925 0 rented
1961 E STELLA ST Absentee individual $95K 3/1 1,200 1925 1 rented

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.