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1,000+ code violations, 1,000+ vacant properties, 350 permits, 237 absentee owners and 107 unsafe buildings in the last 30 days. The blocks where public records stack up the most seller signals right now.Free account, no card: the 5 newest addresses. Every address, owner names and a morning alert: Parcel, $109 a month after a free trial, cancel in two clicks.
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5000 block of Rosehill St, Philadelphia
score 44Unsafe or condemned on Oct 22, 2 vacant properties since Nov 3, 3 code violations since Nov 5
- 2
600 block of E Thayer St, Philadelphia
score 366 unsafe buildings since Oct 14, 9 vacant properties since Oct 27
- 3
2400 block of W Sergeant St, Philadelphia
score 36Unsafe or condemned on Oct 29, 5 vacant properties since Nov 3
- 4
3000 block of N 26th St, Philadelphia
score 35Unsafe or condemned on Oct 21, 7 vacant properties since Oct 21
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3100 block of Weymouth St, Philadelphia
score 35Unsafe or condemned on Oct 21, 6 vacant properties since Oct 22
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3100 block of N Bambrey St, Philadelphia
score 352 unsafe buildings since Oct 15, 3 vacant properties since Oct 14
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3800 block of N Darien St, Philadelphia
score 35Unsafe or condemned on Oct 12, 3 vacant properties since Oct 15
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5700 block of Belmar St, Philadelphia
score 35Unsafe or condemned on Oct 13, 3 vacant properties since Nov 2
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5800 block of Washington Ave, Philadelphia
score 35Unsafe or condemned on Oct 23, 3 vacant properties since Nov 9
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500 block of Wigard Ave, Philadelphia
score 35Unsafe or condemned on Oct 19, vacant on Oct 19
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Your chances on these
EstimateWhat decides who gets an off-market deal, without Parcel and with it.
~7×
as likely to get a real conversation when you reach out within an hour.
Estimate · HBR 2011, web leads
90%
of sellers list with an agent, where every buyer can bid. Off-market, you reach them first.
Estimate · NAR 2024
- When you hear about it
- WithoutWhen it lists, or when a bought list reaches you weeks later
- WithThe morning after the city or county publishes the record (newest here: Nov 9)
- Reaching the owner
- WithoutA letter or a door knock at the property
- WithThe owner's phone and email from an owner lookup, when one is found
- Getting there first
- WithoutWhenever you get to it
- WithA morning alert and the lead already in your pipeline
How we estimate
We don't give a percentage. There is no public data on how often an investor wins an off-market deal, and we won't make one up. What the research does show is that reaching people first, and before a home lists, is what moves the odds:
- Oldroyd, McElheran and Elkington, “The Short Life of Online Sales Leads,” Harvard Business Review, 2011: Across 2,241 US companies, those that answered a web lead within an hour were nearly 7 times as likely to have a qualifying conversation as those that waited longer. These were inbound leads, not property owners, so read it as direction, not a number for real estate.
- National Association of Realtors, 2024 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers: 90% of sellers sold with an agent and 6% sold by owner. Once a home lists, every buyer can bid; before it lists, you may be the only one talking to the owner.
Philadelphia in numbers
From the same public records as the list above. Counts only, no addresses.
Where this comes from: 6 official public datasets
Official public datasets for Philadelphia, PA, checked every hour here and every morning in Deal Radar. Each record links to its source above. Blocks are scored the way Deal Radar scores every property.
- Philadelphia open property maintenance violations · Philadelphia, PA
- Philadelphia open vacant property violations · Philadelphia, PA
- Philadelphia open unsafe structure violations · Philadelphia, PA
- Philadelphia residential alteration and make-safe permits · Philadelphia, PA
- Philadelphia unlicensed rental complaints · Philadelphia, PA
- Philadelphia homes owned from out of state · Philadelphia, PA