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Who owns your block

700 block of N 8th St

A mixed-ownership block: 50% owner-occupied, 25% investor-held, with 9 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 312% since 2016, now about $4.0M. Property taxes are climbing about 7% a year though the increases have eased lately.

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
$4.0M
$607K–$8.0M
ZIP median $455K
Price / sq ft
$160
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
18.1×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$45K
typical · up to $77K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
2 of 4
$103K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
50%
2 of 4
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
9
L&I code
▲ block 50% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+1%
value · tax +$347
5 years
+15%
value · tax +$2K
10 years
+312%
value · tax +$14K

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 $4.0M — about 18.1× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19123 median of $455K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19123 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19123Philadelphia
Median home value$4.0M$455K$223K
Owner-occupied50%23%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 39 reported crimes (7 violent) and 49 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
39
7 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
49
6 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft8
Other Assaults5
Theft from Vehicle5
Thefts5
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief5
All Other Offenses3

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection20
Street Defect8
Illegal Dumping6
Information Request2
Maintenance Complaint2
Parks and Rec Safety and Maintenance2

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
General Philip Kearny
601 Fairmount Ave · 193 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$5.0M$10M$4.0M2016: $979K2017: $979K2018: $1.2M2019: $3.5M2020: $3.5M2021: $3.5M2022: $3.5M2023: $4.0M2024: $4.0M2025: $4.0M2026: $4.0M2027: $4.0M2016202020232027

▲ +312% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$25,000$50,000$26,9162016: $12,4762017: $12,4762018: $14,7862019: $24,5442020: $23,3792021: $24,0092022: $24,9542023: $28,9492024: $28,9492025: $26,5692026: $26,5692027: $26,9162016202020232027

▲ +116% since 2016 · ~+7%/yr

2
2 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 $102,656 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +13.7% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510050020162019202220252027This block 412 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $412 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+13.7%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+312%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+13.7%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+10.7%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+7.2 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 1 arm's-length sale since 2015. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

Few recorded sales.

1arm's-length sales since 2015
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
3homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 4 parcels

Owner-occupied: 2Investor / LLC: 1Vacant: 1 4parcels
  • Owner-occupied 2
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$607K$4.9M+

The block's largest owner, Friends Housing Cooperati, carries 8 open violations across 2 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Friends Housing Cooperati (individual)22$13Mphila.gov ↗
Fairmount Property Invest11$607Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 4 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$5.0M$10M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
700 N 8TH ST L&I violation (2025). Vacant $3.1M 0 1 viol
701 N 8TH ST Bought for $500K in 2015. Owner pulled a electrical permit in 2017. Investor / LLC $607K 8,588 1 tax lien
703-07 N 8TH ST built new under a 2011 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $4.9M 30,953 1850 0 abated8 viol
709-21 N 8TH ST built new under a 2009 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $8.0M 41,510 1850 0 abated

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.