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Who owns your block

2900 block of W Glenwood Ave

A mixed-ownership block: 56% owner-occupied, 6% investor-held, with 7 homes behind $17,698 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 507% since 2016, now about $108K. Property taxes are climbing about 38% 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
$108K
$38K–$420K
ZIP median $167K
Price / sq ft
$121
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.5×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$28K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $108K
Tax / yr
$748
typical · up to $4K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
8 of 16
$17K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
56%
8 of 16
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$18K
7 of 16 behind
▲ block 44% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 6% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+4%
value · tax −$18
5 years
+168%
value · tax +$500
10 years
+507%
value · tax +$570

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 $108K — about 0.5× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19121 median of $167K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19121 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19121Philadelphia
Median home value$108K$167K$223K
Owner-occupied38%20%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 105 reported crimes (30 violent) and 252 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
105
30 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
252
39 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft18
Other Assaults17
Thefts16
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief15
Burglary Residential12
Aggravated Assault No Firearm7

Top 311 complaints

Illegal Dumping58
Maintenance Complaint41
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection35
Abandoned Vehicle17
Street Defect10
Construction Complaints9

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
Edward Gideon
2817 W Glenwood Ave · 184 students
High · 9-12
Strawberry Mansion HS
3133 Ridge Ave · 275 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$100K$200K$108K2016: $18K2017: $18K2018: $18K2019: $31K2020: $40K2021: $40K2022: $40K2023: $72K2024: $72K2025: $102K2026: $104K2027: $108K2016202020232027

▲ +507% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$500$1,000$5942016: $172017: $242019: $222020: $712021: $712022: $942023: $5472024: $5472025: $6122026: $6122027: $5942016202020232027

▲ +3394% since 2016 · ~+38%/yr

8
8 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 $16,745 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

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:

7 homes pay the full 1.40%9 pay less
$0pays now $5,882at the full rate

The starkest example: 2901-45 W Glenwood Ave is assessed at $420K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $5,882 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 +17.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

95100100020162019202220252027This block 607 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $607 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+17.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+507%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+17.8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+14.8%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+11.3 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 11 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 11 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20052010201520202025
11arm's-length sales since 2002
0times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
11homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 16 parcels

Owner-occupied: 8Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 3Vacant: 4 16parcels
  • Owner-occupied 8
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 3
  • Vacant 4

Value distribution today

4 parcels6 parcels2 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$38K$302K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Lagos Homes LLC15$3.4Mphila.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 16 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$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
2901-45 W GLENWOOD AVE built new under a 2007 permit (tax-abated), sold for $62K in 2004. Absentee individual $420K —/— 4,500 1 abated
2920 W GLENWOOD AVE Vacant $38K —/— 0 tax lien
2922 W GLENWOOD AVE Bought for $900 in 2017, built new under a 2024 permit, sold for $28K in 2025. Investor / LLC $294K —/— 1,358 2025 4 tax lien
2924 W GLENWOOD AVE 2 L&I violations (2017). Vacant $65K —/— 0 tax lien
2926 W GLENWOOD AVE Owner-occupied $102K 3/1 920 1915 0 abated
2928 W GLENWOOD AVE built new under a 2024 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 840 1915 0 abated
2930 W GLENWOOD AVE Owner-occupied $111K 3/1 942 1915 0 abated
2932 W GLENWOOD AVE Owner-occupied $111K 3/1 942 1915 0
2934 W GLENWOOD AVE 2 L&I violations (2019); 2 L&I violations (2021); 2 L&I violations (2023); 2 L&I violations (2025). Vacant $44K —/— 0 tax lien
2936 W GLENWOOD AVE Owner-occupied $113K 3/1 938 1915 0 abatedtax lien
2938 W GLENWOOD AVE Traded 3×: $16K in 2002 → $16K in 2013 (+0%). Absentee individual $92K 3/1 942 1915 3
2940 W GLENWOOD AVE 2 L&I violations (2008); 2 L&I violations (2016); 2 L&I violations (2017); 2 L&I violations (2018). Vacant $50K —/— 0
2942 W GLENWOOD AVE Bought for $1K in 2007. Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2010. Absentee individual $168K 3/1 942 1915 2
2944 W GLENWOOD AVE built new under a 2016 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $116K 3/1 942 1915 0 abated
2946 W GLENWOOD AVE demolished in 2010 and rebuilt (2019), then sold for $373K in 2021. Owner-occupied $302K 4/— 1,232 2020 1 abated
2948 W GLENWOOD AVE built new under a 2021 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $105K 3/1 864 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.