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Who owns your block

900 block of W Tioga St

An investor-heavy block: 80% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 7 open code violations and 3 homes behind $16,726 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 181% since 2016, now about $135K. Property taxes are climbing about 10% 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
$135K
$64K–$1.4M
ZIP median $108K
Price / sq ft
$70
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.6×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$500K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $135K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $20K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1939
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
0%
0 of 10
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
7
L&I code
▲ block 20% · city 5%
Back taxes
$17K
3 of 10 behind
▲ block 30% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
4
2 homes · ZBA & boards
block 20% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+32%
value · tax +$464
5 years
+133%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+181%
value · tax +$1K

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 $135K — about 0.6× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19140 median of $108K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19140 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19140Philadelphia
Median home value$135K$108K$223K
Owner-occupied0%31%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 124 reported crimes (23 violent) and 92 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
124
23 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
92
25 still open

Most reported crimes

All Other Offenses44
Other Assaults15
Motor Vehicle Theft11
Thefts10
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief10
Prostitution and Commercialized Vice9

Top 311 complaints

Illegal Dumping16
Maintenance Complaint15
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection14
Abandoned Vehicle13
Street Defect12
Sanitation Violation4

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
Mary Mc Leod Bethune
3301 Old York Rd · 353 students
High
Mastery Charter School At Gratz

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$125K$250K$135K2016: $48K2017: $48K2018: $56K2019: $58K2020: $58K2021: $58K2022: $58K2023: $70K2024: $70K2025: $100K2026: $102K2027: $135K2016202020232027

▲ +181% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,8922016: $6732017: $6732018: $7842019: $8062020: $8102021: $8102022: $8102023: $9762024: $9762025: $1,3972026: $1,4282027: $1,8922016202020232027

▲ +181% since 2016 · ~+10%/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 beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +9.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510050020162019202220252027This block 281 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $281 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+9.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+181%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+9.8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+6.8%/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.

How often it changes hands

This block has recorded 4 arm's-length sales since 2005. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 6 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20082012201620202024
4arm's-length sales since 2005
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
6homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 10 parcels

Investor / LLC: 6Absentee individual: 2Vacant: 2 10parcels
  • Investor / LLC 6
  • Absentee individual 2
  • Vacant 2

Value distribution today

4 parcels2 parcels2 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$64K$431K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Bay Shore Properties Llc229$3.7Mphila.gov ↗
Dy Properties Llc313$4.0Mphila.gov ↗
Ym Property Management Ll18$866Kphila.gov ↗
Tiogas Used Parts Inc11$151Kphila.gov ↗
Pecarsky William Inc11$64Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 10 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 & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
900-08 W TIOGA ST sold $5K (2007); Appeal granted with conditions (2013); Appeal granted with conditions (2017); Appeal granted with conditions (2023). Vacant $431K —/— 1 2 viol
901-07 W TIOGA ST Appeal granted (2017). Investor / LLC $1.4M —/— 25,830 1900 0
909-11 W TIOGA ST Investor / LLC $119K —/— 2,980 1930 0
910 W TIOGA ST Investor / LLC $151K —/— 1,154 1940 1 5 violtax lien
917-19 W TIOGA ST Vacant $64K —/— 0
921-23 W TIOGA ST Investor / LLC $115K —/— 3,821 1925 0 tax lien
925 W TIOGA ST Investor / LLC $112K 3/1 1,110 1940 1
927 W TIOGA ST Investor / LLC $107K 3/1 996 1940 1
940 W TIOGA ST Absentee individual $200K —/— 2,850 1938 0
944 W TIOGA ST Absentee individual $199K —/— 2,840 1940 0

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.