Philadelphia Housing Index

Permitting for New Construction Strong in Kensington and Point Breeze During the Pandemic

May 7, 2021 / Comments Off on Permitting for New Construction Strong in Kensington and Point Breeze During the Pandemic

For this month’s Philadelphia Housing Index (PHI) blog post, we took a look at new construction permit data from Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspection to see how Philadelphia’s development pipeline performed during the COVID-19 pandemic and which neighborhoods showed the most construction permitting activity in the past year. We filtered the data to examine […]

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A Mid-Pandemic Look at the Philadelphia Housing Index

August 28, 2020 / Comments Off on A Mid-Pandemic Look at the Philadelphia Housing Index

The last time we featured the Philadelphia Housing Index (PHI) in a Present Value blog post, we were in simpler times—back in February and talking about the future trajectory of the Far Northeast. It is not news to point out the substantial slowdown in home sales on account of COVID-19’s disruption or the slower pace […]

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Looking at a Less Frequently Explored Philadelphia Neighborhood: The Far Northeast

February 7, 2020 / Comments Off on Looking at a Less Frequently Explored Philadelphia Neighborhood: The Far Northeast

As far as Philadelphia neighborhoods go, the Far Northeast often goes unmentioned when talking about economic development or real estate activity. But as an urban planner (and someone who spent their formative years living there), I thought it would be worth focusing an edition of our Philadelphia Housing Index (PHI) Present Value blog on some […]

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North Philadelphia Neighborhoods on the Edge of the City’s Redevelopment Boom

October 18, 2019 / Comments Off on North Philadelphia Neighborhoods on the Edge of the City’s Redevelopment Boom

If you’ve been following our Philadelphia Housing Index (PHI) posts, you may have noticed one neighborhood we have not spent a lot of time talking about has been Brewerytown. But in the last 2 years, this neighborhood has seen a significant rise in its PHI and growth in the home sales activity that it’s worth […]

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Where can we Expect the First Major OZ Activity in Philadelphia?

June 21, 2019 / Comments Off on Where can we Expect the First Major OZ Activity in Philadelphia?

Using the PHI to Identify Investment With all of the buzz about the federal Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program, we thought it would be interesting to see how various neighborhoods—census tracts, actually, with designated QOZs are behaving from a single-family housing perspective. National research describes a spike in sale prices in houses in QOZ neighborhoods, […]

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Neighborhoods Outside Center City Remain Steady for Development

March 15, 2019 / Comments Off on Neighborhoods Outside Center City Remain Steady for Development

Many news sources are showing that home construction started to slow down nationally at the end of 2018, with single-family permits dropping by 6.7 percent. With that in mind, we wanted to see how Philadelphia’s construction activity compared year-over-year, and also how it was fairing early on in 2019. Last year, we took some time […]

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