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Who owns your block

400 block of Union St

A mixed-ownership block: 50% owner-occupied, 14% investor-held.

The typical home here is up 134% since 2016, now about $226K. Property taxes are climbing about 7% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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
$226K
$126K–$299K
ZIP median $211K
Price / sq ft
$231
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.0×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $4K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 14
$8K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
50%
7 of 14
city 41%
Rentals
43%
6 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-12%
value · tax −$405
5 years
+96%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+134%
value · tax +$2K

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 $226K — about 1.0× 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 blockZIP 19104Philadelphia
Median home value$226K$211K$223K
Owner-occupied29%18%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 164 reported crimes (58 violent) and 218 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
164
58 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
218
37 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults44
Thefts33
All Other Offenses20
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief15
Theft from Vehicle12
Fraud9

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection53
Maintenance Complaint45
Street Defect21
Sanitation Violation15
Abandoned Vehicle12
Illegal Dumping9

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 · K-4
Samuel Powel
3610 Warren St · 342 students
Middle · 5-8
Science Leadership Academy Middle School
3610 Warren St · 351 students
High · 9-12
West Philadelphia HS
4901 Chestnut St · 729 students

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$250K$500K$226K2016: $96K2017: $96K2018: $96K2019: $111K2020: $115K2021: $115K2022: $115K2023: $118K2024: $118K2025: $256K2026: $256K2027: $226K2016202020232027

▲ +134% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$2,9582016: $1,3422017: $1,3382018: $1,3382019: $1,5022020: $1,5762021: $1,5762022: $1,5762023: $1,6552024: $1,6552025: $3,4032026: $3,3632027: $2,9582016202020232027

▲ +120% since 2016 · ~+7%/yr

1
1 property 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 $8,395 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
$273pays now $3,068at the full rate

439 Union St is assessed at $219K but pays $273 a year — about 9% of the $3,068 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 +8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510050020162019202220252027This block 234 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $234 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+134%
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 20 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 5 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20042008201220162020
20arm's-length sales since 2002
1times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
5homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 14 parcels

Owner-occupied: 7Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 5 14parcels
  • Owner-occupied 7
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 5

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels5 parcels4 parcels2 parcels2 parcels
$126K$298K+

The block's largest owner, Darweis Inc, carries 3 open violations across 13 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Darweis Inc113$5.1Mphila.gov ↗
5145 Baltimore Avenue Llc15$884Kphila.gov ↗

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$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
413 UNION ST Absentee individual $126K 3/1 776 1930 1 rentedtax lien
415 UNION ST Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,004 1930 0
417 UNION ST Absentee individual $226K 3/1 1,004 1930 0 rented
419 UNION ST Traded 2×: $129K in 2004 → $177K in 2008 (+37%). Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,004 1930 2 rented
421 UNION ST Traded 4×: $1K in 2007 → $130K in 2012 (+12900%). Absentee individual $260K 3/1 1,064 1930 4 rented
423 UNION ST Investor / LLC $273K 3/1 930 1930 0 rented
425 UNION ST Absentee individual $210K 3/1 900 1930 1 rented
427 UNION ST Traded 4×: $12K in 2002 → $260K in 2021 (+2067%). Owner-occupied $234K 2/1 930 1930 4
429 UNION ST Owner-occupied $299K 3/1 930 1930 1 tax lien
431 UNION ST Traded 2×: $85K in 2015 → $250K in 2021 (+194%). Absentee individual $298K 2/1 930 1930 2
433 UNION ST Traded 2×: $29K in 2003 → $9K in 2015 (-71%). Investor / LLC $213K 3/1 930 1930 2 tax lien
435 UNION ST Traded 3×: $50K in 2010 → $265K in 2022 (+430%). Owner-occupied $213K 2/1 930 1930 3
437 UNION ST Owner-occupied $215K 3/1 930 1930 0 tax lien
439 UNION ST Owner-occupied $219K 3/1 1,000 1930 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)

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.