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Who owns your block

3500 block of Solly Ave

A mostly owner-occupied block: 93% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 2 open code violations and 1 home behind $90,014 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 95% since 2016, now about $299K. Property taxes are climbing about 4% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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
$299K
$218K–$335K
ZIP median $251K
Price / sq ft
$176
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.3×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$260K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $299K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $4K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 15
$20K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
93%
14 of 15
city 41%
Rentals
7%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
2
L&I code
▲ block 13% · city 5%
Back taxes
$90K
1 of 15 behind
▼ block 7% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+6%
value · tax +$247
5 years
+60%
value · tax +$785
10 years
+95%
value · tax +$1K

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 $299K — about 1.3× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19136 median of $251K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19136 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19136Philadelphia
Median home value$299K$251K$223K
Owner-occupied80%49%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 45 reported crimes (9 violent) and 61 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
45
9 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
61
3 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults8
Theft from Vehicle8
Thefts8
All Other Offenses7
Motor Vehicle Theft5
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief4

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection18
Information Request10
Maintenance Complaint6
Other (Streets)5
Salting4
Shoveling4

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
Joseph H Brown
1946 E Sergeant St · 319 students
High · 9-12
Abraham Lincoln
3201 Ryan Ave · 2332 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$250K$500K$299K2016: $154K2017: $154K2018: $154K2019: $171K2020: $187K2021: $187K2022: $187K2023: $228K2024: $228K2025: $283K2026: $283K2027: $299K2016202020232027

▲ +95% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$2,7692016: $1,7302017: $1,7692018: $1,7692019: $1,8272020: $1,9842021: $1,9842022: $1,9842023: $2,0422024: $2,0422025: $2,5222026: $2,5222027: $2,7692016202020232027

▲ +60% since 2016 · ~+4%/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 $19,758 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%
$1,730pays now $4,691at the full rate

3504 Solly Ave is assessed at $335K but pays $1,730 a year — about 37% of the $4,691 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 tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.3% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 195 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $195 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+6.3%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+95%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+6.3%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+3.3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.2 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 15 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 6 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K2005201020152020
15arm's-length sales since 2002
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
6homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 15 parcels

Owner-occupied: 14Absentee individual: 1 15parcels
  • Owner-occupied 14
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels3 parcels7 parcels2 parcels
$218K$327K+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

House by house

All 15 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
3500 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $301K —/— 1,386 1925 1
3504 SOLLY AVE built new (tax-abated), sold for $135K in 2003. Owner-occupied $335K —/— 1,600 1925 1 abated
3508 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $327K —/— 2,000 1955 0
3510 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $292K 4/1 1,692 1925 1
3512 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $306K 4/1 1,692 1925 1
3514 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $299K 4/1 1,800 1955 0 1 violtax lien
3516 SOLLY AVE Traded 2×: $94K in 2002 → $135K in 2013 (+44%). Owner-occupied $278K —/— 1,476 1925 2
3518 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $292K 3/1 1,692 1925 0
3520 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $292K 4/1 1,692 1925 0
3522 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $310K 4/1 1,692 1925 0
3524 SOLLY AVE Traded 3×: $82K in 2003 → $135K in 2015 (+65%). Owner-occupied $301K 4/1 1,692 1925 3
3526 SOLLY AVE Traded 2×: $167K in 2010 → $166K in 2011 (-1%). Owner-occupied $272K 4/1 1,420 1955 2
3528 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $218K 4/1 1,692 1955 0
3530 SOLLY AVE Owner-occupied $298K 4/1 1,692 1925 1
3532 SOLLY AVE Traded 3×: $70K in 2003 → $260K in 2024 (+271%). Absentee individual $299K 5/2 2,024 1925 3 rented1 viol

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.