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Who owns your block

700 block of W Thompson St

An investor-heavy block: 63% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 1 home behind $25 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 124% since 2016, now about $447K. Property taxes are climbing about 27% 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
$447K
$338K–$14M
ZIP median $278K
Price / sq ft
$248
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
2.0×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$6K
typical · up to $20K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
3 of 8
$185K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
25%
2 of 8
city 41%
Rentals
13%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$25
1 of 8 behind
▲ block 13% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 13% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-3%
value · tax −$192
5 years
+38%
value · tax +$5K
10 years
+31%
value · tax +$5K

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 $447K — about 2.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19122 median of $278K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19122 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19122Philadelphia
Median home value$447K$278K$223K
Owner-occupied0%21%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 152 reported crimes (47 violent) and 201 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
152
47 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
201
22 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults30
Thefts30
Motor Vehicle Theft22
Theft from Vehicle19
All Other Offenses14
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief12

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection46
Maintenance Complaint33
Illegal Dumping22
Street Defect18
Abandoned Vehicle11
Salting11

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
James R Ludlow
550 W Master St · 237 students
High · 6-12
Penn Treaty HS
600 E Thompson St · 345 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$500K$1.0M$447K2016: $200K2017: $342K2018: $342K2019: $325K2020: $325K2021: $325K2022: $324K2023: $342K2024: $342K2025: $461K2026: $461K2027: $447K2016202020232027

▲ +124% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$6,2612016: $4422017: $1,3902018: $1,3902019: $1,2042020: $1,2042021: $1,2862022: $1,2862023: $9042024: $2,0942025: $6,2382026: $6,4532027: $6,2612016202020232027

▲ +1317% since 2016 · ~+27%/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 $185,490 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%
$19,767pays now $197,666at the full rate

720 W Thompson St is assessed at $14M but pays $19,767 a year — about 10% of the $197,666 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 beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +7.6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 224 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $224 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+7.6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+124%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+7.6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+4.6%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+1.1 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 4 arm's-length sales since 2012. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 5 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$1.3M$2.5M20122014201620182020
4arm's-length sales since 2012
0times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
5homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 8 parcels

Owner-occupied: 2Investor / LLC: 5Absentee individual: 1 8parcels
  • Owner-occupied 2
  • Investor / LLC 5
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

2 parcels0 parcels4 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$338K$607K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Rb3 Thompson Llc44$1.7Mphila.gov ↗
720 W Thompson Llc11$14Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 8 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$10M$20M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
700 W THOMPSON ST Investor / LLC $338K —/— 1,998 2015 0 tax lien
702 W THOMPSON ST Investor / LLC $447K 4/— 1,791 2013 0 tax lien
704 W THOMPSON ST Investor / LLC $447K 4/2 1,791 2013 0 tax lien
705-09 W THOMPSON ST Absentee individual $358K —/— 9,600 1968 0 abated
706 W THOMPSON ST Owner-occupied $447K 4/— 1,791 2013 1 tax lien
708 W THOMPSON ST Investor / LLC $451K 4/— 1,821 2013 0 tax lien
711 W THOMPSON ST Bought for $47K in 2012, built new under a 2025 permit (tax-abated), sold for $135K in 2015. Owner-occupied $607K 4/2 3,360 1900 2 abated
720 W THOMPSON ST Bought for $2.5M in 2021, built new under a 2021 permit (tax-abated). Investor / LLC $14M —/— 60,668 2022 1 rentedabated

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.