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Philadelphia property report

4700 block of Locust St

An investor-heavy block: 100% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 6 open code violations and 1 parcel behind $81,506 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 17% since 2016, now about $4.2M. Property taxes are climbing about 1% a year though the increases have eased lately.

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By the Numbers

Median value
$4.2M
$4.2M–$4.2M
ZIP median $136K
Price / sq ft
$87
typical home
city median $181
Vs. Philadelphia
18.3×
the city median
city $230K
Tax / yr
$59K
typical · up to $59K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1928
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
0%
0 of 1
city 48%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
6
L&I code
▲ block 100% · city 5%
Back taxes
$82K
1 of 1 behind
▲ block 100% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$252
5 years
+21%
value · tax +$10K
10 years
+17%
value · tax +$9K

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 parcel here is $4.2M — about 18.3× the citywide median home, and above the ZIP 19139 median of $136K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19139 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19139Philadelphia
Median parcel value (ZIP/city: homes)$4.2M$136K$230K
Owner-occupied0%38%48%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 118 reported crimes (38 violent) and 259 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
118
38 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
259
33 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults31
Motor Vehicle Theft20
Thefts18
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief16
All Other Offenses10
Fraud6

Top 311 complaints

Graffiti Removal93
Maintenance Complaint21
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection17
Illegal Dumping16
Construction Complaints10
Salting10

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-5
Henry C Lea
6501 Chew Ave · 261 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$2.5M$5.0M$4.2M2016: $3.6M2017: $3.6M2018: $4.4M2019: $3.5M2020: $3.5M2021: $3.5M2022: $3.5M2023: $4.2M2024: $4.2M2025: $4.2M2026: $4.2M2027: $4.2M2016202020232027

▲ +17% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$50,000$100,000$58,7922016: $50,2212017: $50,2212018: $62,0712019: $48,7832020: $48,7832021: $48,7832022: $48,7832023: $58,5402024: $58,5402025: $58,5402026: $58,5402027: $58,7922016202020232027

▲ +17% since 2016 · ~+1%/yr

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +1.4% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 117 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $117 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+1.4%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+17%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+1.4%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-1.6%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-5.1 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 1 arm's-length sale since 2005. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window.

Every recorded sale · price & date

Few recorded sales.

1arm's-length sales since 2005
1times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
0homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 1 parcels

Investor / LLC: 1 1parcels
  • Investor / LLC 1

Value distribution today

Not enough data.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueTax bills mail toSource
Dorsett Court Realty Co L11$4.2MPo Box 549, Abington PA, 19001phila.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 1 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).

AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
4710 LOCUST ST Apartment building built new under a 2020 permit. Investor / LLC $4.2M 48,047 1928 1 6 viol

Neighborhood

Median income
$80K
household
Own vs. rent
9%
owner-occupied
Median age
34.2
residents
Median rent
$2K
gross monthly

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. Dossiers re-pull automatically — on view once they're a few weeks old, plus a nightly rolling sweep — and citywide benchmarks recompute weekly; the masthead date is when this page's records were last pulled. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.