Who owns your block
3900 block of Baltimore Ave
A mixed-ownership block: 8% owner-occupied, 27% investor-held, with 2 open code violations.
The typical home here is up 119% since 2016, now about $536K. Property taxes are climbing about 7% a year and the increases are speeding up.
- 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 $536K — about 2.4× 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 | $536K | $211K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 0% | 18% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 64 reported crimes (11 violent) and 73 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
- $536K typical home, up +119% since 2016
- Tax bill $3,425 to $7,306 a year, +7%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $14M assessed, $177,377/yr to the city, about $6,822 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +119% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +113% since 2016 · ~+7%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
3949 Baltimore Ave is assessed at $826K but pays $3,481 a year — about 30% of the $11,561 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 +7.4% 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 $219 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 9 arm's-length sales since 1997. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 19 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 26 parcels
- Owner-occupied 2
- Investor / LLC 7
- Absentee individual 16
- Vacant 1
Value distribution today
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University City (individual) | 4 | 38 | $84M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Apartments At Penn Inc | 1 | 7 | $5.5M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Penn Holdings Pine 1 Llc | 4 | 7 | $4.0M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Harry A Rutenberg (individual) | 3 | 4 | $1.6M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Harry A Rutenberg (individual) | 3 | 3 | $1.5M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Vsv Realty Llc | 1 | 2 | $1.2M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Accessible Property Investment Limited L | 1 | 1 | $567K | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3913 BALTIMORE AVE | Investor / LLC | $492K | —/— | 1,800 | 1930 | 1 | rented |
| 3915 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $536K | —/— | 1,800 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3917 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $520K | —/— | 1,800 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3919 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $537K | —/— | 1,800 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3921 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $466K | —/— | 1,668 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3923 BALTIMORE AVE New constructionBought for $250K in 2003, built new under a 2022 permit (tax-abated), sold for $481K in 2022. | Investor / LLC | $799K | 5/4 | 1,740 | 1930 | 3 | rentedabated |
| 3925 BALTIMORE AVE ImprovedBought for $294K in 2011. Owner pulled a alteration permit in 2011. | Absentee individual | $505K | —/— | 1,668 | 1930 | 1 | |
| 3927 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $509K | —/— | 1,668 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3929 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $519K | —/— | 1,668 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3931 BALTIMORE AVE | Investor / LLC | $544K | —/— | 5,004 | 1930 | 1 | rented |
| 3933 BALTIMORE AVE Historysold $2.3M (2020); Appeal withdrawn (2020). | Investor / LLC | $544K | —/— | 5,004 | 1930 | 1 | rented |
| 3935 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $483K | 6/2 | 1,668 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3937 BALTIMORE AVE ImprovedOwner pulled a plumbing permit in 2019. | Absentee individual | $521K | —/— | 1,668 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3939 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $523K | 5/2 | 1,668 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3940 BALTIMORE AVE New constructionbuilt new under a 2018 permit. | Vacant | $352K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 3941 BALTIMORE AVE History3 L&I violations (2011). | Absentee individual | $536K | —/— | 1,668 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 3943 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $536K | —/— | 1,668 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
| 3945 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $481K | —/— | 1,668 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
| 3947 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $536K | —/— | 1,668 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
| 3949 BALTIMORE AVE | Owner-occupied | $826K | —/— | 2,925 | 1915 | 0 | abated |
| 3951 BALTIMORE AVE | Absentee individual | $608K | 5/2 | 2,925 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
| 3953 BALTIMORE AVE | Investor / LLC | $559K | —/— | 3,225 | 1930 | 1 | rented |
| 3955 BALTIMORE AVE Historysold $872K (2020); 2 L&I violations (2026). | Investor / LLC | $565K | —/— | 2,175 | 1930 | 1 | rented2 viol |
| 3957 BALTIMORE AVE ImprovedOwner pulled a plumbing permit in 2018. | Absentee individual | $503K | —/— | 2,016 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
| 3959 BALTIMORE AVE ImprovedOwner pulled a major alteration permit in 2017. | Owner-occupied | $558K | —/— | 3,278 | 1960 | 0 | |
| 3961 BALTIMORE AVE ImprovedOwner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2026. | Investor / LLC | $567K | 4/2 | 2,596 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-09 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)