Who owns your block
400 block of S 40th St
A mixed-ownership block: 0% owner-occupied, 27% investor-held, with 10 open code violations.
The typical home here is up 101% since 2016, now about $691K. Property taxes are climbing about 7% 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 $691K — about 3.1× 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 | $691K | $211K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 0% | 18% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 70 reported crimes (7 violent) and 108 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
- $691K typical home, up +101% since 2016
- Tax bill $4,818 to $9,667 a year, +7%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $28M assessed, $123,082/yr to the city, about $11,189 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +101% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +101% since 2016 · ~+7%/yr
Who really pays — each home's tax bill as a share of its value
Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. On this block, 10 of 11 homes pay that full rate — and 1 pays less, because abatements and exemptions shrink the taxed value. Each dot is one home; the further left, the less of its value it pays. Hover a dot for the house.
The starkest example: 400 S 40th St is assessed at $22M but pays $30,479 a year — about 10% of the $304,792 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 tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.5% 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 $201 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 4 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 8 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 11 parcels
- Investor / LLC 3
- Absentee individual 8
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Trs Univ Of Penn, carries 48 open violations across 108 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trs Univ Of Penn (individual) | 2 | 108 | $1367M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Campus Realty Properties | 1 | 32 | $21M | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| Penn Holdings Pine 1 LLC | 1 | 7 | $4.0M | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
| Joseph J Canavan (individual) | 4 | 5 | $3.3M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Oap INC | 1 | 2 | $22M | phila.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 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 400 S 40TH ST Torn down & rebuiltdemolished in 2015 and rebuilt (2018). | Investor / LLC | $22M | 114,840 | 2018 | 2 | rentedabated5 viol |
| 401 S 40TH ST HistoryL&I violation (2026). | Absentee individual | $696K | 8,100 | 1890 | 0 | 1 viol |
| 403 S 40TH ST HistoryL&I violation (2026). | Absentee individual | $691K | 8,100 | 1890 | 0 | 1 viol |
| 405 S 40TH ST HistoryL&I violation (2026). | Absentee individual | $691K | 8,100 | 1890 | 0 | 1 viol |
| 407 S 40TH ST | Absentee individual | $716K | 2,700 | 1920 | 0 | rented |
| 409 S 40TH ST HistoryL&I violation (2026). | Absentee individual | $624K | 8,100 | 1926 | 0 | 1 viol |
| 411 S 40TH ST | Investor / LLC | $632K | 2,550 | 1930 | 1 | rented |
| 413 S 40TH ST | Absentee individual | $597K | 7,650 | 1926 | 0 | rented |
| 415 S 40TH ST Historysold $2.6M (2020); Appeal withdrawn (2020). | Investor / LLC | $597K | 7,650 | 1920 | 1 | rented |
| 417 S 40TH ST HistoryL&I violation (2026). | Absentee individual | $603K | 2,295 | 1930 | 0 | 1 viol |
| 421 S 40TH ST History4 L&I violations (2010). | Absentee individual | $770K | 6,508 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
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Generated 2026-07-09 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)