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Who owns your block

4000 block of Torresdale Ave

An investor-heavy block: 60% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 16 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 44% since 2016, now about $606K. Property taxes are climbing about 3% 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
$606K
$13K–$3.9M
ZIP median $170K
Price / sq ft
$225
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
2.7×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$8K
typical · up to $55K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1970
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
40%
1 of 5
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
16
L&I code
▲ block 40% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+24%
value · tax +$2K
5 years
+30%
value · tax +$2K
10 years
+44%
value · tax +$3K

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

How the block compares

The typical home here is $606K — about 2.7× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19124 median of $170K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19124 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19124Philadelphia
Median home value$606K$170K$223K
Owner-occupied0%40%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 51 reported crimes (20 violent) and 32 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
51
20 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
32
9 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults8
Thefts8
Aggravated Assault No Firearm5
Fraud4
Motor Vehicle Theft4
Theft from Vehicle4

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint6
Illegal Dumping5
Street Defect4
Traffic (Other)3
Abandoned Vehicle2
Dangerous Building Complaint2

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 · K-8
Allen M Stearne
1655 Unity St · 370 students
High · 9-12
Frankford HS
5000 Oxford Ave · 908 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$500K$1.0M$606K2016: $421K2017: $421K2018: $464K2019: $464K2020: $467K2021: $467K2022: $467K2023: $510K2024: $510K2025: $488K2026: $488K2027: $606K2016202020232027

▲ +44% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$8,4842016: $5,8992017: $5,8992018: $6,5012019: $6,4892020: $6,5372021: $6,5372022: $6,5372023: $7,1432024: $7,1432025: $6,8312026: $6,8312027: $8,4842016202020232027

▲ +44% since 2016 · ~+3%/yr

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +3.4% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 144 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $144 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+3.4%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+44%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+3.4%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+0.4%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-3.1 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 10 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$2.5M$5.0M20042008201220162020
10arm's-length sales since 2002
2times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
0homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 5 parcels

Owner-occupied: 1Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 1Vacant: 2 5parcels
  • Owner-occupied 1
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 1
  • Vacant 2

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels1 parcels3 parcels
$13K$665K+

The block's largest owner, Paul Street Real Estate Llc, carries 2 open violations across 3 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Paul Street Real Estate Llc13$1.3Mphila.gov ↗
Scp 2002e-58 Llc11$3.9Mphila.gov ↗
L&J Property Group Llc11$665Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 5 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$2.5M$5.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
4035 TORRESDALE AVE Bought for $220K in 2002, built new under a 2020 permit. Investor / LLC $3.9M 10,240 2003 2 14 viol
4070 TORRESDALE AVE Bought for $368K in 2012. Absentee individual $525K 17,000 1925 1 2 viol
4075 TORRESDALE AVE Traded 2×: $375K in 2003 → $490K in 2015 (+31%). Owner-occupied $665K 2,957 1970 2
4076 TORRESDALE AVE Traded 4×: $20K in 2002 → $1.1M in 2022 (+5400%). Vacant $606K 4
4077 TORRESDALE AVE Vacant $13K 1

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.