Who owns your block
3500 block of Spring Garden St
A mixed-ownership block: 38% owner-occupied, 25% investor-held, with 6 open code violations and 1 home behind $48,894 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 73% since 2016, now about $829K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% 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 $829K — about 3.7× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19104 median of $211K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19104 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19104 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $829K | $211K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 25% | 18% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 92 reported crimes (19 violent) and 148 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
- $829K typical home, up +73% since 2016
- Tax bill $5,728 to $10,907 a year, +6%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $14M assessed, $197,439/yr to the city, about $24,680 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +73% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +90% since 2016 · ~+6%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
The block as an asset
Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.1% 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 $173 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed 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 15 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window, while 1 has not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 8 parcels
- Owner-occupied 3
- Investor / LLC 2
- Absentee individual 3
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Herringbone Realty Llc, carries 3 open violations across 4 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herringbone Realty Llc | 1 | 4 | $1.7M | phila.gov ↗ |
| 3509 Spring Garden Lp | 1 | 1 | $5.6M | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 8 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
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3500 SPRING GARDEN ST ImprovedBought for $220K in 2007. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2015. | Owner-occupied | $338K | —/— | 6,384 | 1911 | 2 | tax lien |
| 3502 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $240K in 2001 → $410K in 2004 (+71%). | Owner-occupied | $813K | —/— | 3,532 | 1920 | 2 | |
| 3509 SPRING GARDEN ST ImprovedBought for $700K in 2007. | Investor / LLC | $5.6M | —/— | 28,583 | 1920 | 3 | |
| 3510 SPRING GARDEN ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $435K in 2011 → $400K in 2017 (-8%). | Investor / LLC | $669K | —/— | 3,510 | 1920 | 3 | 3 viol |
| 3512 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $757K | —/— | 3,540 | 1920 | 1 | |
| 3514-16 SPRING GARDEN ST ImprovedOwner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2019. | Absentee individual | $4.4M | —/— | 23,190 | 1928 | 0 | rented3 viol |
| 3518 SPRING GARDEN ST LandVacant land, last sold for $95K in 2009. | Absentee individual | $845K | 9/13 | 4,338 | 2011 | 2 | rented |
| 3520 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $295K in 2011 → $550K in 2019 (+86%). | Absentee individual | $867K | —/— | 5,225 | 1920 | 2 | tax lien |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)