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Who owns your block

700 block of Stella Maris St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 91% of homes are lived in by their owners.

The typical home here is up 87% since 2016, now about $333K. Property taxes are climbing about 5% a year.

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
$333K
$306K–$3.2M
ZIP median $261K
Price / sq ft
$228
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.5×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$4K
typical · up to $45K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1965
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
91%
10 of 11
city 41%
Rentals
9%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-1%
value · tax −$21
5 years
+45%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+87%
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 $333K — about 1.5× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19148 median of $261K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19148 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19148Philadelphia
Median home value$333K$261K$223K
Owner-occupied64%41%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 48 reported crimes (10 violent) and 108 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
48
10 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
108
24 still open

Most reported crimes

Theft from Vehicle12
Motor Vehicle Theft10
Other Assaults7
Thefts6
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief3
Fraud2

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection24
Illegal Dumping13
Alley Light Outage11
Maintenance Complaint11
Salting7
Other (Streets)6

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
D Newlin Fell
900 W Oregon Ave · 519 students
High · 9-12
South Philadelphia HS
2101 S Broad St · 647 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$333K2016: $178K2017: $178K2018: $178K2019: $212K2020: $230K2021: $230K2022: $230K2023: $249K2024: $249K2025: $337K2026: $337K2027: $333K2016202020232027

▲ +87% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$3,7812016: $2,1652017: $2,1652018: $2,1652019: $2,5852020: $2,5842021: $2,5842022: $2,5842023: $2,9982024: $2,9982025: $3,3182026: $3,8022027: $3,7812016202020232027

▲ +75% since 2016 · ~+5%/yr

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

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.9% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 187 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $187 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.9%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+87%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.9%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.9%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.6 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 2008. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 4 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20082012201620202024
8arm's-length sales since 2008
1times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
4homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 11 parcels

Owner-occupied: 10Absentee individual: 1 11parcels
  • Owner-occupied 10
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

4 parcels0 parcels3 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels2 parcels
$306K$394K+

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

House by house

All 11 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$2.5M$5.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
730 STELLA MARIS ST Owner-occupied $3.2M —/— 24,337 1965 0 rented
731 STELLA MARIS ST Owner-occupied $394K 3/1 1,352 1965 1
733 STELLA MARIS ST Owner-occupied $333K 3/1 1,352 1965 0
735 STELLA MARIS ST Owner-occupied $333K 3/1 1,352 1965 1
737 STELLA MARIS ST Owner-occupied $307K 3/1 1,346 1965 0
739 STELLA MARIS ST Owner-occupied $307K 3/1 1,346 1965 1
741 STELLA MARIS ST Owner-occupied $334K 3/1 1,364 1965 1
743 STELLA MARIS ST Owner-occupied $370K 3/1 1,652 1965 1
745 STELLA MARIS ST Absentee individual $315K 3/1 1,420 1965 0
747 STELLA MARIS ST Traded 2×: $78K in 2013 → $160K in 2014 (+105%). Owner-occupied $306K 3/1 1,344 1965 2
749 STELLA MARIS ST Owner-occupied $375K 3/1 1,352 1965 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.