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Who owns your block

8000 block of St Martins Ln

A mixed-ownership block: 50% owner-occupied, 0% investor-held, with 1 home behind $53,501 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 101% since 2016, now about $1.6M. Property taxes are climbing about 7% 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
$1.6M
$473K–$2.6M
ZIP median $756K
Price / sq ft
$344
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
7.0×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$1.7M
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $1.6M
Tax / yr
$26K
typical · up to $36K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1925
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
50%
4 of 8
city 41%
Rentals
13%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$54K
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
+6%
value · tax +$1K
5 years
+98%
value · tax +$11K
10 years
+101%
value · tax +$11K

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 $1.6M — about 7.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19118 median of $756K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19118 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19118Philadelphia
Median home value$1.6M$756K$223K
Owner-occupied50%56%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 0 reported crimes (0 violent) and 6 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
0
0 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
6
to the city

Top 311 complaints

Dead Animal in Street1
Information Request1
Manhole Cover1
Salting1
Street Trees1
Traffic (Other)1

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
John S Jenks
8301 Germantown Ave · 380 students
High · 9-12
Roxborough High School
6498 Ridge Ave · 529 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$1.3M$2.5M$1.6M2016: $781K2017: $781K2018: $781K2019: $809K2020: $793K2021: $793K2022: $793K2023: $1.2M2024: $1.2M2025: $1.5M2026: $1.5M2027: $1.6M2016202020232027

▲ +101% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$12,500$25,000$21,2582016: $10,3432017: $10,2952018: $10,2952019: $10,7692020: $10,4702021: $10,4702022: $10,4702023: $16,6382024: $16,6382025: $19,5362026: $19,9252027: $21,2582016202020232027

▲ +106% since 2016 · ~+7%/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 tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.5% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 201 Philadelphia 201

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

Annualized return
+6.5%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+101%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+6.5%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+3.5%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
0 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 3 arm's-length sales since 2017. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 6 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$1.0M$2.0M2018202020222024
3arm's-length sales since 2017
0times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
6homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 8 parcels

Owner-occupied: 4Absentee individual: 4 8parcels
  • Owner-occupied 4
  • Absentee individual 4

Value distribution today

1 parcels2 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels1 parcels3 parcels
$473K$2.2M+

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

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$2.5M$5.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
8001 SAINT MARTINS LN Owner-occupied $902K 4/3 1,880 1985 0
8003 SAINT MARTINS LN Traded 2×: $825K in 2017 → $1.7M in 2025 (+106%). Absentee individual $1.9M 6/3 6,663 1890 2
8005 SAINT MARTINS LN Owner-occupied $909K 3/2 2,192 1988 0
8007R SAINT MARTINS LN Owner-occupied $1.3M 3/3 2,840 1925 0
8015 SAINT MARTINS LN Owner-occupied $2.6M —/— 9,758 1925 0
8020 SAINT MARTINS LN Appeal granted (2010). Absentee individual $473K —/— 4,050 1889 0
8030 SAINT MARTINS LN Absentee individual $2.0M 7/3 5,746 2011 0
8040 SAINT MARTINS LN Absentee individual $2.2M 6/5 6,304 1889 1 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.