Real Estate
Note to Gentrifiers, Rich People, and Pretty Much Everyone: Your Taxes Are Going Up Under AVI
According to City Controller Alan Butkovitz, 343,191 properties will experience tax increases under the city’s proposed Actual Value Initiative (AVI) overhaul, compared to 107,603 which will […]
Bart Blatstein Sells Control of Piazza, Explains Tax Failure
With his Piazza at Schmidt’s development, developer Bart Blatstein helped set off a wave of gentrification that has remade Northern Liberties and its surrounding neighborhoods. […]
Is “Stephen Starr” Opening A Mexican Restaurant In Fishtown?
Uh…maybe? Thanks to one of our faithful tipsters, we got a link to this hi-LARIOUS real estate blog post/property listing this morning, which seems to […]
Former Eagle Jevon Kearse Loses Home to Foreclosure
The South Florida Business Journal reports that former Eagle Jevon Kearse has lost the Florida home he bought after joining the Eagles in 2004: Known […]
University City Skyscraper to House Penn, Drexel Students
A 33-story, $159 million tower is slated to open in University City in fall of 2014. The dorm (yeah, I guess that’s what it is) […]
Allen Iverson Is Now Homeless After Bank Takes Back Foreclosed Mansion
Forget about finding this man a team. Find this man a place to live! After his bank bought bank his foreclosed Georgia mansion for $2.5 […]
Mapping the Homes of Philadelphia’s Rich and Famous
You know those Hollywood tours that bring you outside the homes of stars? Here’s a Philly version, in which nobody drives you around and you’ve […]
Check Out Detailed Crime Patterns in YOUR Neighborhood!
Today, AxisPhilly, formerly Philadelphia Public Interest Information Network (I approve of the name change), launched its spiffy new website. Among the features you’ll see there […]
The Best Times to Buy a House in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Online real estate maven Trulia has released an interactive map documenting the most and least popular times of year to buy homes across the country. […]
Penn Students Sue University for Gross Housing Conditions
Here’s a familiar college tale: Students move off-campus, get rats and mold, want money back, can’t locate absentee landlord. That’s what happened to six UPenn […]
Goldtex Union Workers Skirt Jailtime, Get Community Service Instead
Two union workers charged with assault at the infamous Goldtex construction site this summer, have been ordered to perform 18 hours of community service and […]
Churches 4 Cash! Philly Archdiocese Selling Off More Properties
Several months after it cut jobs and sold off a couple opulent mansions to raise money, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is selling the Holy Family […]
“This Is the Lovely Master Bedroom, Where the Bodies Were Found…”
It’s a question that serves to divide people pretty neatly: What if you found the home of your dreams, then discovered that a horrible crime […]
10 Historic Buildings Philly Lost in 2012
Hidden City Philadelphia has compiled a sad list of gorgeous old churches, abandoned factories, and 19th century homes that were demolished this year. Lowlights include […]
Philly’s 17 Most Endangered Properties
The Philadelphia Preservation Alliance has released its annual list of endangered properties, which you can peruse using a map from Curbed Philly. Among those in […]