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Who owns your block

700 block of N 18th St

A mixed-ownership block: 29% owner-occupied, 0% investor-held, with 3 open code violations.

The typical home here is down 34% since 2016, now about $288K. Property taxes are climbing about 14% 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
$288K
$30K–$611K
ZIP median $457K
Price / sq ft
$270
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.3×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $8K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 14
$14K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
29%
4 of 14
city 41%
Rentals
14%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
3
L&I code
▲ block 7% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
7
2 homes · ZBA & boards
block 14% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+14%
value · tax −$25
5 years
+32%
value · tax +$2K
10 years
+32%
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 $288K — about 1.3× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19130 median of $457K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19130 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19130Philadelphia
Median home value$288K$457K$223K
Owner-occupied29%37%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 103 reported crimes (19 violent) and 262 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
103
19 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
262
36 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft21
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief17
Thefts14
Theft from Vehicle11
Other Assaults9
All Other Offenses6

Top 311 complaints

Salting51
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection49
Street Defect29
Information Request25
Graffiti Removal18
Abandoned Vehicle15

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
Laura W Waring
1801 Green St · 170 students
High · 9-12
Benjamin HS Franklin
616 N 15th St · 975 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$288K2016: $433K2017: $218K2018: $218K2019: $218K2020: $218K2021: $218K2022: $218K2023: $240K2024: $240K2025: $252K2026: $252K2027: $288K2016202020232027

▼ -34% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$2,7142016: $6722017: $4582018: $4582019: $4582020: $4582021: $4582022: $4582023: $5042024: $5042025: $8152026: $2,7392027: $2,7142016202020232027

▲ +304% since 2016 · ~+14%/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 $14,152 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:

9 homes pay the full 1.40%5 pay less
$0pays now $8,553at the full rate

The starkest example: 707 N 18th St is assessed at $611K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $8,553 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding -3.6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

5010025020162019202220252027This block 66 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $66 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
-3.6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
-34%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
-3.6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-6.6%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-10.1 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 2023. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 13 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

Few recorded sales.

1arm's-length sales since 2023
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
13homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 14 parcels

Owner-occupied: 4Absentee individual: 9Vacant: 1 14parcels
  • Owner-occupied 4
  • Absentee individual 9
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

5 parcels0 parcels1 parcels4 parcels2 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$30K$555K+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

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$500K$1.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
702 N 18TH ST built new under a 2024 permit. Vacant $241K —/— 1
703-05 N 18TH ST Owner-occupied $329K 1/1 1,214 2015 0 tax lien
703-05 N 18TH ST Absentee individual $388K 2/2 1,328 2015 0 rented
703-05 N 18TH ST Owner-occupied $382K 3/2 1,222 2015 0
703-05 N 18TH ST Absentee individual $30K —/— 176 2015 0 tax lien
703-05 N 18TH ST Absentee individual $294K 1/1 895 2015 0
703-05 N 18TH ST Absentee individual $30K —/— 176 2015 0 tax lien
703-05 N 18TH ST Owner-occupied $281K 1/1 1,207 2015 0 tax lien
703-05 N 18TH ST Owner-occupied $307K 1/1 970 2015 0
703-05 N 18TH ST Absentee individual $30K —/— 176 2015 0 tax lien
703-05 N 18TH ST built new under a 2014 permit. Absentee individual $30K —/— 176 2015 0 tax lien
703-05 N 18TH ST Absentee individual $30K —/— 176 2015 0 tax lien
704-06 N 18TH ST Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2026. Absentee individual $555K —/— 2,016 1920 0 rented
707 N 18TH ST built new (tax-abated). Absentee individual $611K —/— 2,265 1920 0 abated3 viol

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.