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Who owns your block

3900 block of Donath St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 79% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 3 homes behind $17,346 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 133% since 2016, now about $104K. Property taxes are climbing about 15% a year though the increases have eased lately.

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
$104K
$99K–$159K
ZIP median $108K
Price / sq ft
$78
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.5×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$1K
typical · up to $2K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
6 of 14
$10K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
79%
11 of 14
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$17K
3 of 14 behind
▲ block 21% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax −$84
5 years
+117%
value · tax +$859
10 years
+133%
value · tax +$689

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 $104K — about 0.5× 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 blockZIP 19140Philadelphia
Median home value$104K$108K$223K
Owner-occupied50%31%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 60 reported crimes (20 violent) and 139 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
60
20 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
139
28 still open

Most reported crimes

All Other Offenses12
Other Assaults10
Fraud7
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief7
Thefts5
Aggravated Assault No Firearm4

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint33
Illegal Dumping25
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection25
Hydrant Request9
Abandoned Vehicle8
Construction Complaints5

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
Mastery Charter School At Cleveland
High
Mastery Charter School At Gratz

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$100K$200K$104K2016: $44K2017: $44K2018: $44K2019: $46K2020: $48K2021: $48K2022: $48K2023: $78K2024: $78K2025: $104K2026: $104K2027: $104K2016202020232027

▲ +133% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$8972016: $2022017: $2082018: $2022019: $872020: $382021: $382022: $382024: $1,0122025: $9812026: $9812027: $8972016202020232027

▲ +344% since 2016 · ~+15%/yr

6
6 properties 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 $9,782 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:

7 homes pay the full 1.40%7 pay less
$57pays now $1,457at the full rate

The starkest example: 3937 Donath St is assessed at $104K but pays $57 a year — about 4% of the $1,457 it would owe at the full rate, because its new-construction value is abated for 10 years.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 233 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $233 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+133%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+5%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+1.5 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 11 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 7 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$100K$200K20002005201020152020
11arm's-length sales since 1999
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
7homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 14 parcels

Owner-occupied: 11Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 1 14parcels
  • Owner-occupied 11
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

3 parcels9 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$99K$129K+

The block's largest owner, Nazm LLC, carries 1 open violation across 4 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Nazm LLC14$801Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Shena Sullivan (individual)24$468Kphila.gov ↗
5m Group 5 LLC11$159Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

The mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill — for an LLC, often the closest public record gets to the person behind it. "Registry" searches the owner's name in state incorporation records (OpenCorporates).

House by house

All 14 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$100K$200K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
3921 DONATH ST Traded 2×: $31K in 2020 → $100K in 2021 (+223%). Owner-occupied $129K 3/1 1,200 1940 2 tax lien
3923 DONATH ST Bought for $15K in 2018. Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2013. Investor / LLC $99K 3/1 1,200 1940 1
3925 DONATH ST Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 1,320 1940 0 abated
3927 DONATH ST 2 L&I violations (2019); sold $50K (2022). Investor / LLC $159K 3/1 1,320 1940 1 tax lien
3929 DONATH ST Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 1,320 1940 0 abated
3931 DONATH ST Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 1,320 1940 0 tax lien
3933 DONATH ST Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 1,320 1940 0 abated
3935 DONATH ST Bought for $35K in 1999. Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2013. Absentee individual $104K 3/1 1,320 1940 2
3937 DONATH ST built new under a 2024 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 1,320 1940 0 abated
3939 DONATH ST Traded 3×: $19K in 2000 → $127K in 2022 (+566%). Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 1,320 1940 3 tax lien
3941 DONATH ST Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 1,320 1940 0 abatedtax lien
3943 DONATH ST Owner-occupied $104K 3/1 1,320 1940 1
3945 DONATH ST built new (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $99K 3/1 1,200 1940 0 abated
3947 DONATH ST Owner-occupied $99K 3/1 1,200 1940 1 tax lien

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-09 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.