Who owns your block
3500 block of N Smedley St
A mixed-ownership block: 35% owner-occupied, 35% investor-held, with 5 homes behind $11,175 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 187% since 2016, now about $77K. Property taxes are climbing about 1% a year though the increases have eased lately.
- 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 $77K — about 0.3× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19140 median of $108K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19140 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19140 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $77K | $108K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 23% | 31% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 165 reported crimes (63 violent) and 187 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
- $77K typical home, up +187% since 2016
- Tax bill $304 to $280 a year, -1%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $2.4M assessed, $24,443/yr to the city, about $788 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +187% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▼ -8% since 2016 · ~-1%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
3516 N Smedley St is assessed at $101K but pays $15 a year — about 1% of the $1,415 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 beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +10.1% 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 $287 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 30 arm's-length sales since 1970. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 17 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 31 parcels
- Owner-occupied 11
- Investor / LLC 4
- Absentee individual 6
- Vacant 10
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Quatre Management Llc, carries 41 open violations across 18 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quatre Management Llc | 1 | 18 | $4.4M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Lift Trust | 2 | 13 | $1.6M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Barvaz Properties Llc | 1 | 8 | $1.2M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Mont Alto Llc | 1 | 8 | $916K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Property Golden Inc | 1 | 6 | $589K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Aam Investments Llc | 2 | 5 | $953K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Lift Trust Llc | 1 | 3 | $165K | phila.gov ↗ |
| 35 Smedley Llc | 1 | 1 | $92K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Way Up Broad Llc | 1 | 1 | $19K | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 31 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
Worth a look
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3512 N SMEDLEY ST ImprovedBought for $5K in 2012. | Absentee individual | $76K | 3/1 | 990 | 1930 | 1 | tax lien |
| 3513 N SMEDLEY ST Frequently tradedTraded 4×: $38K in 2005 → $100K in 2019 (+164%). | Investor / LLC | $124K | 3/1 | 1,200 | 1926 | 4 | |
| 3514 N SMEDLEY ST | Absentee individual | $80K | 2/1 | 1,050 | 1946 | 1 | |
| 3515 N SMEDLEY ST TradedTraded 2×: $26K in 2004 → $70K in 2022 (+169%). | Owner-occupied | $92K | 3/1 | 1,200 | 1930 | 2 | |
| 3516 N SMEDLEY ST New constructionBought for $20K in 2010, built new (tax-abated), sold for $165K in 2025. | Owner-occupied | $101K | 2/1 | 1,050 | 1930 | 2 | abated |
| 3517 N SMEDLEY ST | Owner-occupied | $92K | 3/1 | 1,200 | 1930 | 0 | abated |
| 3518 N SMEDLEY ST | Absentee individual | $77K | 3/1 | 1,050 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3519 N SMEDLEY ST | Owner-occupied | $92K | 3/1 | 1,200 | 1930 | 0 | abated |
| 3520 N SMEDLEY ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $2K in 2001 → $19K in 2020 (+850%). | Investor / LLC | $77K | 3/1 | 1,050 | 1930 | 3 | tax lien |
| 3522 N SMEDLEY ST | Absentee individual | $77K | 3/1 | 1,050 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3524 N SMEDLEY ST | Owner-occupied | $101K | 3/1 | 1,050 | 1930 | 0 | abated |
| 3525 N SMEDLEY ST TradedTraded 2×: $60K in 2007 → $45K in 2018 (-25%). | Investor / LLC | $216K | —/— | 5,450 | 1932 | 2 | tax lien |
| 3526 N SMEDLEY ST TradedTraded 2×: $3K in 2005 → $55K in 2009 (+1733%). | Owner-occupied | $77K | 3/1 | 1,050 | 1930 | 2 | |
| 3527-29 N SMEDLEY ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $75K in 2002 → $5K in 2017 (-94%). | Owner-occupied | $428K | —/— | 5,700 | 1932 | 3 | |
| 3528 N SMEDLEY ST New constructionBought for $8K in 1970, built new (tax-abated), sold for $9K in 2004. | Owner-occupied | $77K | 3/1 | 1,050 | 1930 | 2 | abatedtax lien |
| 3530 N SMEDLEY ST | Absentee individual | $77K | 3/1 | 1,050 | 1930 | 0 | |
| 3532 N SMEDLEY ST | Owner-occupied | $84K | 3/1 | 1,050 | 1930 | 0 | abatedtax lien |
| 3534 N SMEDLEY ST | Vacant | $20K | —/— | — | — | 0 | tax lien |
| 3535 N SMEDLEY ST TradedTraded 2×: $28K in 2018 → $26K in 2023 (-7%). | Owner-occupied | $66K | 3/1 | 750 | 1930 | 2 | |
| 3536 N SMEDLEY ST | Vacant | $20K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 3537 N SMEDLEY ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $6K in 2008 → $70K in 2022 (+1067%). | Investor / LLC | $66K | 2/1 | 750 | 1930 | 3 | |
| 3538 N SMEDLEY ST | Vacant | $20K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 3539 N SMEDLEY ST TradedTraded 2×: $8K in 2011 → $14K in 2014 (+84%). | Absentee individual | $70K | 2/1 | 840 | 1930 | 2 | |
| 3540 N SMEDLEY ST HistoryAppeal granted with conditions (2019). | Vacant | $20K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 3541 N SMEDLEY ST | Owner-occupied | $66K | 3/1 | 750 | 1930 | 0 | abated |
| 3542 N SMEDLEY ST | Vacant | $20K | —/— | — | — | 0 | tax lien |
| 3543 N SMEDLEY ST | Vacant | $23K | —/— | — | — | 0 | tax lien |
| 3544 N SMEDLEY ST | Vacant | $23K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 3545 N SMEDLEY ST | Vacant | $19K | —/— | — | — | 0 | tax lien |
| 3546 N SMEDLEY ST | Vacant | $23K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 3547 N SMEDLEY ST | Vacant | $20K | —/— | — | — | 1 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)