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Who owns your block

900 block of E Upsal St

A mixed-ownership block: 36% owner-occupied, 9% investor-held, with 3 open code violations and 2 homes behind $31,796 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 76% since 2016, now about $277K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% 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
$277K
$266K–$295K
ZIP median $234K
Price / sq ft
$166
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.2×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$4K
typical · up to $4K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1950
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
36%
8 of 22
city 41%
Rentals
23%
5 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
3
L&I code
▲ block 9% · city 5%
Back taxes
$32K
2 of 22 behind
▼ block 9% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+1%
value · tax −$122
5 years
+64%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+76%
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 $277K — about 1.2× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19150 median of $234K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19150 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19150Philadelphia
Median home value$277K$234K$223K
Owner-occupied18%67%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 33 reported crimes (10 violent) and 101 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
33
10 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
101
17 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults8
Motor Vehicle Theft6
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief6
Theft from Vehicle3
Thefts3
All Other Offenses2

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection34
Abandoned Vehicle13
Salting7
Street Light Outage7
Traffic Signal Emergency7
Inlet Cleaning5

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
Anna Blakiston Day
6324 Crittenden St · 289 students
High · 9-12
Martin Luther King
6100 Stenton Ave · 604 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$277K2016: $157K2017: $157K2018: $157K2019: $166K2020: $169K2021: $169K2022: $169K2023: $201K2024: $201K2025: $276K2026: $276K2027: $277K2016202020232027

▲ +76% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$3,7332016: $2,0632017: $2,0632018: $2,0632019: $2,3292020: $2,3602021: $2,3602022: $2,3602023: $2,8052024: $2,8052025: $3,8552026: $3,8552027: $3,7332016202020232027

▲ +81% since 2016 · ~+6%/yr

Who really pays — each home's tax bill as a share of its value

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. On this block, 18 of 22 homes pay that full rate — and 4 pay less, because abatements and exemptions shrink the taxed value. Each dot is one home; the further left, the less of its value it pays. Hover a dot for the house.

1.40% — the full rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
home on this blocktax-abated

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.3% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 176 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $176 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.3%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+76%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.3%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1.2 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 15 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 11 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20002005201020152020
15arm's-length sales since 1999
1times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
11homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 22 parcels

Owner-occupied: 8Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 12 22parcels
  • Owner-occupied 8
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 12

Value distribution today

10 parcels0 parcels1 parcels4 parcels1 parcels1 parcels5 parcels
$266K$291K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Y Dunbar Rev Trust11$290Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Superior R Realty LLC11$266Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

The mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill — for an LLC, often the closest public record gets to the person behind it. "Registry" searches the owner's name in state incorporation records (OpenCorporates).

House by house

All 22 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$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
900 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $291K 4/2 1,932 1950 1 rented
901 E UPSAL ST Owner-occupied $266K 4/2 1,600 1950 0
902 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $290K —/— 1,932 1950 0
903 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $266K 4/2 1,600 1950 0 rented
904 E UPSAL ST Investor / LLC $290K —/— 1,932 1950 0
905 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $267K 4/2 1,600 1950 1 rented
906 E UPSAL ST Traded 2×: $73K in 1999 → $180K in 2018 (+147%). Absentee individual $293K 4/2 1,932 1950 2
907 E UPSAL ST Investor / LLC $266K 4/2 1,600 1950 1 rented
909 E UPSAL ST Traded 2×: $168K in 2008 → $210K in 2017 (+25%). Owner-occupied $267K 4/4 1,600 1950 2
910 E UPSAL ST Owner-occupied $286K —/— 1,798 1950 0
911 E UPSAL ST Traded 2×: $100K in 2020 → $260K in 2021 (+160%). Absentee individual $266K 4/2 1,600 1950 2 tax lien
912 E UPSAL ST Owner-occupied $280K —/— 1,798 1950 0 tax lien
913 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $267K 4/2 1,600 1950 0
914 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $280K —/— 1,798 1950 1
915 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $267K 4/2 1,600 1950 0
916 E UPSAL ST Traded 2×: $145K in 2008 → $173K in 2013 (+19%). Owner-occupied $280K 4/2 1,798 1950 2 1 viol
917 E UPSAL ST Owner-occupied $283K 4/2 1,600 1950 0
918 E UPSAL ST Owner-occupied $280K —/— 1,798 1950 0
919 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $266K 4/2 1,600 1950 1
920 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $295K —/— 1,798 1950 1 rented
921 E UPSAL ST Absentee individual $266K 4/2 1,600 1950 1
923 E UPSAL ST Owner-occupied $274K 4/2 1,600 1950 0 2 viol

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.