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Who owns your block

4400 block of Brown St

A mixed-ownership block: 57% owner-occupied, 7% investor-held, with 2 homes behind $8,404 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 127% since 2016, now about $114K. Property taxes are climbing about 8% a year.

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
$114K
$49K–$253K
ZIP median $211K
Price / sq ft
$103
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.5×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$1K
typical · up to $4K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
5 of 14
$9K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
57%
8 of 14
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$8K
2 of 14 behind
▲ block 14% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 7% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-3%
value · tax +$417
5 years
+163%
value · tax +$323
10 years
+127%
value · tax +$422

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 $114K — about 0.5× the citywide median, and below 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$114K$211K$223K
Owner-occupied36%18%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 82 reported crimes (36 violent) and 135 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
82
36 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
135
23 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults25
Motor Vehicle Theft9
All Other Offenses7
Fraud6
Theft from Vehicle6
Thefts6

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection42
Maintenance Complaint32
Abandoned Vehicle11
Illegal Dumping8
Other (Streets)6
Street Trees6

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
Martha Washington
1198 S 5th St · 370 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$100K$200K$114K2016: $50K2017: $50K2018: $50K2019: $41K2020: $44K2021: $44K2022: $44K2023: $77K2024: $77K2025: $118K2026: $118K2027: $114K2016202020232027

▲ +127% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$500$1,000$9152016: $3862017: $4932018: $4932019: $4062020: $5922021: $5922022: $5922023: $7222024: $6472025: $4982026: $4982027: $9152016202020232027

▲ +137% since 2016 · ~+8%/yr

5
5 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 $9,436 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:

6 homes pay the full 1.40%8 pay less
$487pays now $1,760at the full rate

The starkest example: 4421 Brown St is assessed at $126K but pays $487 a year — about 28% of the $1,760 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 +7.7% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

8210025020162019202220252027This block 227 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $227 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+7.7%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+127%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+7.7%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+4.7%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+1.2 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 7 arm's-length sales since 2003. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 9 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$100K$200K20042008201220162020
7arm's-length sales since 2003
0times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
9homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 14 parcels

Owner-occupied: 8Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 3Vacant: 2 14parcels
  • Owner-occupied 8
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 3
  • Vacant 2

Value distribution today

2 parcels2 parcels5 parcels2 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$49K$211K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Philadelphia Land Bank (individual)22498$133Mphila.gov ↗
Gln Properties LLC11$96Kphila.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$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
4401 BROWN ST Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2023. Owner-occupied $96K 3/1 960 1925 0 tax lien
4403 BROWN ST Bought for $3K in 2003. Owner pulled a change of use permit in 2026. Investor / LLC $96K 3/1 960 1925 2
4405 BROWN ST Vacant $49K —/— 0 tax lien
4407 BROWN ST Vacant $49K —/— 0 tax lien
4409 BROWN ST built new under a 2024 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $93K 3/1 900 1925 0 abated
4411 BROWN ST Bought for $13K in 2018, built new under a 2020 permit. Owner-occupied $253K —/— 1,806 2024 1 tax lien
4413 BROWN ST built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $93K 3/1 900 1925 0 abatedtax lien
4415 BROWN ST 6 L&I violations (2007). Absentee individual $115K 3/1 900 1925 0 tax lien
4417 BROWN ST Owner-occupied $207K —/— 1,344 1925 1
4421 BROWN ST Owner-occupied $126K 4/1 1,545 1925 0 abated
4423 BROWN ST Bought for $112K in 2007. Owner pulled a change of use permit in 2026. Absentee individual $211K 4/1 1,728 1925 1
4425 BROWN ST built new under a 2024 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $114K 3/1 1,248 1925 0 abated
4427 BROWN ST Bought for $18K in 2007, built new under a 2007 permit (tax-abated), sold for $74K in 2008. Owner-occupied $114K 3/1 1,248 1925 2 abated
4429 BROWN ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2014. Absentee individual $118K 3/1 1,248 1925 0

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.