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Who owns your block

900 block of Walnut St

A mixed-ownership block: 0% owner-occupied, 10% investor-held, with 12 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 12% since 2016, now about $5.8M. Property taxes are climbing about 0% 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
$5.8M
$951K–$32M
ZIP median $395K
Price / sq ft
$187
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
26.1×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$21K
typical · up to $73K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
6 of 10
$1.2M/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
0%
0 of 10
city 41%
Rentals
10%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
12
L&I code
▲ block 30% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
8
4 homes · ZBA & boards
block 40% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+2%
value · tax +$2K
5 years
-4%
value · tax −$2K
10 years
+12%
value · tax +$4K

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 $5.8M — about 26.1× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19107 median of $395K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19107 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19107Philadelphia
Median home value$5.8M$395K$223K
Owner-occupied0%20%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 396 reported crimes (126 violent) and 90 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
396
126 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
90
11 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts195
Other Assaults111
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief19
All Other Offenses16
Theft from Vehicle13
Motor Vehicle Theft12

Top 311 complaints

Street Light Outage18
Information Request7
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection7
Street Trees7
Traffic Signal Emergency7
Illegal Dumping6

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
General George A Mccall
High · 9-12
Benjamin HS Franklin
616 N 15th St · 975 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$10M$20M$5.8M2016: $5.2M2017: $5.2M2018: $6.0M2019: $6.0M2020: $6.1M2021: $6.1M2022: $6.1M2023: $5.9M2024: $5.9M2025: $5.7M2026: $5.7M2027: $5.8M2016202020232027

▲ +12% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$10,000$20,000$15,6632016: $15,4722017: $11,9002018: $16,4162019: $16,4122020: $17,3182021: $17,3182022: $17,3182023: $13,5622024: $13,5622025: $13,9502026: $13,9502027: $15,6632016202020232027

▲ +1% since 2016 · ~+0%/yr

6
6 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 $1,233,488 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

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, 4 of 10 homes pay that full rate — and 6 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
$29,043pays now $441,970at the full rate

The starkest example: 912-28 Walnut St is assessed at $32M but pays $29,043 a year — about 7% of the $441,970 it would owe at the full rate, because its new-construction value is abated for 10 years.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +1.1% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 112 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $112 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+1.1%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+12%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+1.1%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-1.9%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-5.4 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 2000. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 7 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$10M$20M20012004200720102013
3arm's-length sales since 2000
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
7homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 10 parcels

Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 9 10parcels
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 9

Value distribution today

3 parcels3 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels1 parcels2 parcels
$951K$22M+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Phila Thermal Corp11$4.0Mphila.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 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$25M$50M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
900-10 WALNUT ST built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated), sold for $19M in 2000. Absentee individual $18M 172,500 1910 1 abated
901-03 WALNUT ST Old house bought for $4.5M in 2007, demolished in 2010. Absentee individual $12M 63,360 2012 1 abated
905-11 WALNUT ST built new under a 2025 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $6.4M 33,465 1988 0 abated
912-28 WALNUT ST built new under a 2025 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $32M 228,000 1976 0 rentedabated3 viol
913 WALNUT ST Absentee individual $1.8M 8,700 1920 0
915-17 WALNUT ST Investor / LLC $4.0M 69,933 0 abated3 viol
919-21 WALNUT ST built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated), sold for $13M in 2013. Absentee individual $22M 135,825 1910 1 abatedtax lien
923-25 WALNUT ST Owner pulled a commercial make safe permit permit in 2025. Absentee individual $5.2M 55,696 1960 0 6 viol
927 WALNUT ST Absentee individual $951K 4,916 1900 0
929 WALNUT ST Absentee individual $1.2M 5,800 1900 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.