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Who owns your block

700 block of W Somerset St

A mixed-ownership block: 0% owner-occupied, 33% investor-held, with 2 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 41% since 2016, now about $763K. Property taxes are climbing about 1% 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
$763K
$590K–$1.4M
ZIP median $83K
Price / sq ft
$23
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
3.4×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$8K
typical · up to $11K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 3
$13K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
0%
0 of 3
city 41%
Rentals
100%
3 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
2
L&I code
▲ block 33% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 33% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$0
5 years
+4%
value · tax +$336
10 years
+41%
value · tax +$705

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 $763K — about 3.4× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19133 median of $83K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19133 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19133Philadelphia
Median home value$763K$83K$223K
Owner-occupied0%18%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 177 reported crimes (68 violent) and 179 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
177
68 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
179
37 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts49
Other Assaults46
All Other Offenses21
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief12
Aggravated Assault No Firearm8
Fraud7

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint38
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection29
Illegal Dumping26
Street Defect18
Sanitation Violation12
Abandoned Vehicle10

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
Potter-Thomas
3001 N 6th St · 341 students
High · 9-12
Thomas A Edison
151 W Luzerne St · 1022 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$1.0M$2.0M$763K2016: $540K2017: $540K2018: $566K2019: $649K2020: $732K2021: $732K2022: $732K2023: $732K2024: $732K2025: $763K2026: $763K2027: $763K2016202020232027

▲ +41% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$8,2642016: $7,5592017: $7,5592018: $7,9282019: $9,0852020: $7,9282021: $7,9282022: $7,9282023: $7,9282024: $7,9282025: $8,2642026: $8,2642027: $8,2642016202020232027

▲ +9% since 2016 · ~+1%/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 $13,261 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +3.2% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 141 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $141 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+3.2%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+41%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+3.2%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+0.2%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-3.3 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.

Who owns it

Ownership of 3 parcels

Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 2 3parcels
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$590K$763K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
700 Somerset Partners Lp11$1.4Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 3 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$1.0M$2.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
700 W SOMERSET ST built new (tax-abated). Investor / LLC $1.4M 70,200 1925 0 rentedabated2 viol
701-17 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $590K 25,200 1992 0 rented
719-35 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $763K 30,350 1995 0 rented

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.