Who owns your block
3800 block of Spring Garden St
A mixed-ownership block: 30% owner-occupied, 39% investor-held, with 16 open code violations.
The typical home here is up 96% since 2016, now about $503K. Property taxes are climbing about 12% 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 $503K — about 2.3× 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 | $503K | $211K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 9% | 18% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 149 reported crimes (49 violent) and 208 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
- $503K typical home, up +96% since 2016
- Tax bill $1,781 to $5,939 a year, +12%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $26M assessed, $266,371/yr to the city, about $11,581 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +96% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +233% since 2016 · ~+12%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
3828 Spring Garden St is assessed at $5.3M but pays $7,429 a year — about 10% of the $74,297 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
Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $196 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 26 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 9 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 23 parcels
- Owner-occupied 7
- Investor / LLC 9
- Absentee individual 7
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, 1260 Housing Development, carries 5 open violations across 14 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1260 Housing Development | 2 | 14 | $11M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Devon Arms Apartments Llc | 1 | 4 | $2.9M | phila.gov ↗ |
| C&L Brothers Investment Llc | 1 | 2 | $1.4M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Cloisters Ii Realty Co Lp | 1 | 1 | $1.6M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Millenium Realty Us Llc | 1 | 1 | $395K | phila.gov ↗ |
| 3808 Investment Llc | 1 | 1 | $775K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Mm Cloisters Llc | 1 | 1 | $4.3M | phila.gov ↗ |
| G L P Schuyler & Co Lp | 1 | 1 | $5.3M | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3800 SPRING GARDEN ST Frequently tradedTraded 4×: $230K in 2008 → $600K in 2023 (+161%). | Absentee individual | $528K | 5/3 | 2,499 | 1920 | 4 | rented |
| 3801 SPRING GARDEN ST | Investor / LLC | $1.6M | —/— | 61,828 | 1917 | 0 | rented13 viol |
| 3802 SPRING GARDEN ST | Absentee individual | $506K | —/— | 2,334 | 1920 | 1 | |
| 3804 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $58K in 2002 → $216K in 2013 (+272%). | Investor / LLC | $395K | —/— | 2,334 | 1920 | 2 | tax lien |
| 3806 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $539K in 2012 → $575K in 2017 (+7%). | Absentee individual | $929K | 6/— | 4,647 | 2012 | 3 | rented |
| 3808 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $75K in 2012 → $539K in 2013 (+619%). | Investor / LLC | $775K | 6/— | 3,126 | 2012 | 3 | rented |
| 3809 SPRING GARDEN ST Historysold $6.0M (2017); Appeal filed (2026). | Investor / LLC | $4.3M | —/— | 32,542 | 1917 | 1 | 3 viol |
| 3810 SPRING GARDEN ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated), sold for $180K in 2015. | Absentee individual | $540K | —/— | 2,072 | 1920 | 1 | abated |
| 3812 SPRING GARDEN ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2018 permit (tax-abated), sold for $232K in 2017. | Investor / LLC | $690K | 6/6 | 2,072 | 1920 | 1 | abatedtax lien |
| 3814 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $397K | —/— | 2,072 | 1920 | 0 | abated |
| 3816 SPRING GARDEN ST | Investor / LLC | $445K | —/— | 2,072 | 1920 | 1 | rented |
| 3818 SPRING GARDEN ST | Absentee individual | $307K | —/— | 2,658 | 1920 | 0 | |
| 3820 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $503K | —/— | 2,658 | 1920 | 0 | |
| 3822 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $496K | —/— | 2,592 | 1920 | 0 | abated |
| 3824 SPRING GARDEN ST | Absentee individual | $544K | —/— | 2,625 | 1920 | 0 | rented |
| 3826 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $470K | —/— | 2,625 | 1920 | 0 | abated |
| 3828 SPRING GARDEN ST Torn down & rebuiltdemolished in 2019 and rebuilt (2019). | Investor / LLC | $5.3M | —/— | 23,646 | 2018 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 3836-50 SPRING GARDEN ST ImprovedBought for $600K in 2013. | Absentee individual | $5.9M | —/— | 29,242 | 2013 | 2 | rented |
| 3843 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $160K in 2007 → $515K in 2025 (+222%). | Owner-occupied | $422K | 3/1 | 1,728 | 1920 | 2 | |
| 3845 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $424K | 4/1 | 1,728 | 1920 | 1 | |
| 3847 SPRING GARDEN ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $205K in 2008 → $450K in 2021 (+120%). | Owner-occupied | $376K | 3/1 | 1,842 | 1920 | 3 | |
| 3852 SPRING GARDEN ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated), sold for $370K in 2024. | Investor / LLC | $168K | 2/1 | 750 | 1920 | 1 | abated |
| 3854 SPRING GARDEN ST | Investor / LLC | $191K | 3/1 | 850 | 1920 | 0 | abated |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)