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Who owns your block

700 block of St Albans St

A mixed-ownership block: 48% owner-occupied, 13% investor-held, with 1 home behind $38,648 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 46% since 2016, now about $318K. Property taxes are climbing about 3% 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
$318K
$287K–$543K
ZIP median $461K
Price / sq ft
$458
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.4×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$4K
typical · up to $6K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
3 of 23
$21K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
48%
11 of 23
city 41%
Rentals
9%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$39K
1 of 23 behind
▼ block 4% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 4% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+2%
value · tax +$77
5 years
+10%
value · tax +$184
10 years
+46%
value · tax +$1K

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 $318K — about 1.4× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19147 median of $461K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19147 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19147Philadelphia
Median home value$318K$461K$223K
Owner-occupied44%38%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 66 reported crimes (11 violent) and 316 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
66
11 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
316
35 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft19
Theft from Vehicle12
Other Assaults9
Thefts9
Fraud8
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief3

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection88
Illegal Dumping41
Salting29
Street Defect26
Construction Complaints20
Sanitation Violation15

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
William M Meredith
725 S 5th St · 579 students
High · 9-12
Horace Furness
1900 S 3rd St · 836 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$318K2016: $217K2017: $217K2018: $217K2019: $268K2020: $290K2021: $290K2022: $290K2023: $284K2024: $284K2025: $312K2026: $312K2027: $318K2016202020232027

▲ +46% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$4,0222016: $2,9092017: $2,9092018: $2,9092019: $3,5002020: $3,8382021: $3,8382022: $3,8382023: $3,8032024: $3,8032025: $4,1242026: $3,9452027: $4,0222016202020232027

▲ +38% since 2016 · ~+3%/yr

3
3 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 $21,186 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
$2,179pays now $4,706at the full rate

712 Saint Albans St is assessed at $336K but pays $2,179 a year — about 46% of the $4,706 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +3.5% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 146 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $146 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+3.5%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+46%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+3.5%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+0.5%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-3 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 8 arm's-length sales since 2017. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 16 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K201720182019202020212022
8arm's-length sales since 2017
0times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
16homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 23 parcels

Owner-occupied: 11Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 10 23parcels
  • Owner-occupied 11
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 10

Value distribution today

6 parcels6 parcels4 parcels1 parcels2 parcels0 parcels4 parcels
$287K$424K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Cusk 89 Holdings Corporat11$313Kphila.gov ↗
Regreen Llc11$318Kphila.gov ↗
Gordon Blake Strawbridge Trust11$308Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 23 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

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
700 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $287K 2/1 688 1920 0
702 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $302K 2/1 688 1920 0 abated
704 SAINT ALBANS ST Owner-occupied $316K 2/1 752 1920 0
706 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $366K 1/1 688 1920 0
708 SAINT ALBANS ST Owner-occupied $420K 2/1 752 1920 0
710 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $327K 2/1 760 1920 0 rented
712 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $336K 2/1 798 1920 0 abated
714 SAINT ALBANS ST Appeal complete (2025). Owner-occupied $313K 2/1 688 1920 0 tax lien
716 SAINT ALBANS ST Owner-occupied $433K 2/2 784 1920 1 rented
718 SAINT ALBANS ST Traded 2×: $284K in 2018 → $309K in 2021 (+9%). Owner-occupied $373K 1/1 688 1920 2
720 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $316K 2/1 688 1920 0
722 SAINT ALBANS ST Investor / LLC $318K 2/1 688 1920 1
724 SAINT ALBANS ST Owner-occupied $287K 2/1 624 1920 1
726 SAINT ALBANS ST Owner-occupied $353K 2/1 792 1920 1
728 SAINT ALBANS ST Investor / LLC $308K 2/1 717 1920 0
730 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $424K 2/1 924 1920 0
732 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $334K 2/1 624 1920 0 abated
734 SAINT ALBANS ST Owner-occupied $307K 2/1 624 1920 0
736 SAINT ALBANS ST Owner-occupied $287K 2/1 624 1920 1
738 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $305K 2/1 704 1920 0
740 SAINT ALBANS ST Absentee individual $301K 2/1 688 1920 0
742 SAINT ALBANS ST Owner-occupied $333K 2/1 705 1920 0
744 SAINT ALBANS ST Owner-occupied $543K 3/2 1,360 1920 1

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.