Overview
The Land Bank in numbers, from Board hearings between Dec 20, 2019 and Oct 13, 2026 and the Land Bank's settlement records back to 2017. These are counts of what the records show; every tile links to the projects behind it. Definitions and gaps are on the About page.
Board hearings by outcome
Each bar counts hearings, not projects: a project heard three times counts three times.
Units sold
Housing units on closings in the Land Bank's settlement records, by year of closing. Turn the Key units are shown separately.
How long each step took, in days
Each row is the number of days between two dates on record for the same property. A project with 80 properties counts as 80. A property is left out of a row when either date is missing or the dates are out of order. The median is the middle value: half of the properties took fewer days, half took more.
| Step | Properties measured | Median (days) | Middle half took (days) | Slowest tenth took at least (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
First Board agenda to first Board approval Zero means approved at the first hearing where the property was on the agenda. 1 property left out because the dates run backwards. | 1,830 | 0 | 0 to 28 | 147 |
Board approval to the next Council resolution naming the property The record does not say which resolution is the disposition, so this is the first one adopted on or after the approval. | 205 | 65 | 23 to 128 | 282 |
That Council resolution to closing Only properties with both a Council adoption after the approval and a closing. 1 property left out because the dates run backwards. | 87 | 393 | 351 to 562 | 753 |
Board approval to closing Only properties that have closed. Properties approved and still waiting are not in these numbers. 16 properties left out because the dates run backwards. | 803 | 521 | 331 to 794 | 913 |
Board approval to closing, by year of approval
Read the recent years with care: a lot approved lately only appears here once it has closed, so the most recent years can look faster than they will turn out to be. Years with fewer than five closed lots show no median.
| Board approval year | Properties measured | Median (days) | Middle half took (days) | Slowest tenth took at least (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 12 | 189 | 189 to 299 | 487 |
| 2020 | 95 | 847 | 286 to 913 | 913 |
| 2021 | 117 | 471 | 310 to 842 | 1,884 |
| 2022 | 292 | 462 | 360 to 611 | 820 |
| 2023 | 156 | 463 | 339 to 871 | 960 |
| 2024 | 103 | 611 | 559 to 660 | 682 |
| 2025 | 28 | 230 | 219 to 272 | 282 |
Who the units were sold to
The ten developers with the most units sold, and their share of all units sold and of Turn the Key units. A developer here is a family of related companies; public agencies and nonprofits are included and labeled.
| Developer | Type | Projects | Units sold | Share of all units sold | Turn the Key units | Share of Turn the Key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civetta Property Group | developer | 26 | 360 | 24% | 283 | 50.9% |
| Frankel Enterprises | developer | 4 | 108 | 7.2% | 108 | 19.4% |
| Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) | public agency | 12 | 95 | 6.3% | 0 | none |
| BMK Properties (RiverWards Group) | developer | 10 | 83 | 5.5% | 69 | 12.4% |
| Community Justice | nonprofit | 4 | 61 | 4.1% | 0 | none |
| HACE (Hispanic Association of Contributors and Educators) | nonprofit | 5 | 59 | 3.9% | 0 | none |
| BVG / Trove Capital | developer | 7 | 57 | 3.8% | 27 | 4.9% |
| Sepviva Lofts | organization | 1 | 51 | 3.4% | 0 | none |
| Janney Street | organization | 1 | 47 | 3.1% | 0 | none |
| Frankford House | organization | 1 | 42 | 2.8% | 0 | none |
By kind of property
A project can be more than one kind (an assemblage that includes gardens). Each count links to the list.
| Kind | Projects | Closed | Approved, not yet closed | Waiting on City Council | Tabled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Side and rear yards | 103 | 76 | 19 | 2 | 4 |
| Unsolicited affordable housing | 77 | 29 | 21 | 9 | 6 |
| Other | 62 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| Community gardens and open space | 50 | 21 | 20 | 4 | 1 |
| Affordable housing RFPs | 34 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 0 |
| Assemblages | 12 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Business | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
City Council
Council adopted 174 of the 178 land-transfer resolutions introduced, in a median of 7 days. Counts by district:
| District | Board approvals since 2024 | Resolutions introduced | Adopted | Approvals withdrawn, no resolution introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 29 | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 5 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| 7 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| 8 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Not stated in the resolution title | 2 | 38 | 38 | 0 |
Not every approval needs a Council resolution and some resolutions cover several projects, so these columns are not a ratio. The record does not say why a resolution was not introduced.
Download the data
The same figures the pages show, as spreadsheets. Several values in one cell are separated by semicolons. A blank cell means the record has no value. Sources and gaps are on the About page.
- Projects (CSV)One row per project: status, kind, places, developers, dates and the median days from Board approval to closing.
- Properties (CSV)One row per property: each step's date, the Council resolutions that name it, the steps missing from the record and the days between steps.