Who owns your block
3900 block of Spring Garden St
A mixed-ownership block: 50% owner-occupied, 13% investor-held, with 13 open code violations and 1 home behind $3,645 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 198% since 2016, now about $440K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% a year.
- 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 $440K — about 2.0× 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 | $440K | $211K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 38% | 18% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 193 reported crimes (63 violent) and 292 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
- $440K typical home, up +198% since 2016
- Tax bill $1,723 to $3,423 a year, +6%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $5.0M assessed, $30,154/yr to the city, about $3,769 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +198% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +99% since 2016 · ~+6%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
3902a-14 Spring Garden St is assessed at $1.3M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $18,477 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 +10.4% 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 $298 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 2001. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 8 parcels
- Owner-occupied 4
- Investor / LLC 1
- Absentee individual 3
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Big Daisy Corp, carries 18 open violations across 4 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Daisy Corp | 1 | 4 | $3.4M | 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 | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3902A-14 SPRING GARDEN ST | Investor / LLC | $1.3M | 10,502 | 1950 | 0 | abated |
| 3902-14 SPRING GARDEN ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated), sold for $400K in 2010. | Absentee individual | $1.2M | 62,886 | 1950 | 1 | abated13 viol |
| 3907 SPRING GARDEN ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $165K in 2007 → $640K in 2024 (+288%). | Absentee individual | $668K | 3,450 | 1930 | 3 | |
| 3932 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $40K in 2001 → $345K in 2022 (+763%). | Owner-occupied | $441K | 1,567 | 1930 | 2 | |
| 3934 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $329K | 1,639 | 1930 | 1 | |
| 3936 SPRING GARDEN ST TradedTraded 2×: $177K in 2005 → $194K in 2014 (+10%). | Owner-occupied | $360K | 1,567 | 1930 | 2 | |
| 3938 SPRING GARDEN ST | Absentee individual | $439K | 1,567 | 1930 | 0 | |
| 3939 SPRING GARDEN ST | Owner-occupied | $217K | 910 | 1930 | 0 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)