Who owns your block
4500 block of Walnut St
An investor-heavy block: 54% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 1 home behind $17,050 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 99% since 2016, now about $1.3M. Property taxes are climbing about 7% a year and the increases are speeding up.
- 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 $1.3M — about 6.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19139 median of $133K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19139 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19139 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $1.3M | $133K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 8% | 32% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 120 reported crimes (33 violent) and 310 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
- $1.3M typical home, up +99% since 2016
- Tax bill $5,869 to $11,886 a year, +7%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $35M assessed, $352,236/yr to the city, about $27,095 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +99% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +103% since 2016 · ~+7%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
4511-23 Walnut St is assessed at $6.1M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $85,256 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 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 $199 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 15 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 5 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 13 parcels
- Owner-occupied 2
- Investor / LLC 6
- Absentee individual 4
- Vacant 1
Value distribution today
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University Realty Lp | 1 | 7 | $19M | phila.gov ↗ |
| 4500 Walnut Inc | 2 | 2 | $2.2M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Safdan Partners Llc | 1 | 1 | $2.5M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Pondsedge Pa Holdings Llc | 1 | 1 | $678K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Stoneleigh Court Llc | 1 | 1 | $8.0M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Hh Eleanor Property Llc | 1 | 1 | $2.1M | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 13 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 | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4500-02 WALNUT ST | Investor / LLC | $1.4M | —/— | 11,154 | 1880 | 0 | rentedtax lien |
| 4501-09 WALNUT ST New constructionBought for $320K in 2006, built new (tax-abated), sold for $922K in 2012. | Absentee individual | $1.3M | —/— | 17,240 | 2010 | 2 | abated |
| 4504-06 WALNUT ST | Investor / LLC | $849K | —/— | 5,480 | 1880 | 0 | rented |
| 4508-10 WALNUT ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated), sold for $1.0M in 2008. | Investor / LLC | $2.5M | —/— | 9,251 | 1906 | 1 | rentedabated |
| 4511-23 WALNUT ST | Absentee individual | $6.1M | —/— | 47,716 | 1985 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 4512 WALNUT ST | Absentee individual | $714K | —/— | 7,680 | 1925 | 0 | |
| 4514 WALNUT ST TradedTraded 2×: $190K in 2003 → $200K in 2004 (+5%). | Owner-occupied | $722K | —/— | 7,680 | 1925 | 2 | |
| 4516 WALNUT ST TradedTraded 2×: $90K in 2005 → $720K in 2024 (+700%). | Investor / LLC | $678K | —/— | 4,163 | 1920 | 2 | rented |
| 4518 WALNUT ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $32K in 2001 → $585K in 2017 (+1728%). | Owner-occupied | $1.3M | 7/2 | 8,160 | 1925 | 3 | |
| 4520-22 WALNUT ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated), sold for $224K in 2001. | Absentee individual | $1.3M | —/— | 9,360 | 1920 | 1 | rentedabated |
| 4524-38 WALNUT ST ImprovedBought for $2.0M in 2003. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2023. | Investor / LLC | $8.0M | —/— | 67,918 | 1920 | 1 | rented |
| 4525-37 WALNUT ST ImprovedBought for $425K in 2002. | Vacant | $2.1M | —/— | — | — | 3 | rented |
| 4525L-37 WALNUT ST | Investor / LLC | $8.5M | —/— | 141,570 | 2016 | 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)