The birth home of Philadelphia (and music) legend Marian Anderson at 1833 Webster Street is up for sale for $399,000. The 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom house has a placard outside the house stating it is the birth home of the legendary singer, and is … um … kind of creepily decorated. Here’s a look at [...]

Former syndicated radio-host and all around guy-who-just-won’t-go-away Danny Bonaduce is selling his 4-story loft at 45 S. Strawberry Street. The home’s kitchen was featured on the DIY Network’s Kitchen Impossible for a full kitchen remodel last year, which we guess is a selling point. Also, this picture is on the Center City Team website, so [...]

Some of you may remember this Philebrity Cribs post from nearly two years ago, wherein we discussed one of these Rag Flats eco-party-palaces, built during the go-go ’00s Fishtown real estate boom, only to go tenant-less at the end of that decade when we all started living the deep, now-even-a-little-wheezy Heavy Sigh that extends to [...]

A reader tells us: Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church (the one with the always-irritating illegal parking problem on Greys Ferry) looks like it’s vacating that bit of land. Realtor: “Only one previous resident, but in all honesty, He did have hundreds of people over every weekend.” Question is what it’s going to turn into. Demolition [...]

The stories are legendary: The poor doorman having to drag mattress after mattress out into the street (presumably for it to be transported somewhere far, far away and burned); the maids, who really don’t deserve this sort of thing, arriving for a cleaning shift, only to find a veritable sea of sex toys (and presumably, [...]

It’s a great location: 10th and Bainbridge, across from the park, and just around the corner from Whole Foods. It’s a 1,900 square feet/2BR loft, and yes, it’s truly impressive. At $699,000, it’s pricey, even though it was just reduced by $26K. But if you happen to be a very specific lover of both film [...]

Angels from heaven sent the majestic vibe of this parlor in the old Park Hotel in Parkside, circa 1906, to Shorpy.com. It’s just a taste of the grandeur that used to exist out that way, and if anyone out there still has a living room like this, please invite us over. We’d like to discuss [...]

Hey, remember those dudes who murdered some kid last summer in the Citizen’s Bank Park parking lot because he spilled a beer on them or some dumb shit? Those charming men were on a bus trip from Moe’s Tavern, a Fishtown bar perched right next to a rec center and dead middle on a residential [...]

Damn you, Infernal Neverending Recession: We know the owner of this gorgeous 3BR, eco-friendly JAM PALACE, and the thought of not being able to go to late-night BBQs and naked baby pool parties (no actual babies, please, that’s weird) here anymore just kills us. Nevertheless, here it is: A genuine Rag Flats home in Fishtown, [...]

Like many of you, yes, we saw this amazing loft in the Fishtown/Kensington area featured on Apartment Therapy today. And if we are to extrapolate, we’re going to guess that this place is somewhere on Front Street. Pretty soon, we’re gonna start Google Street Viewing, and by gum, if we are not invited up for [...]

Do you guys watch this show called Flipping Out on Bravo? It’s all about this sociopathic realtor named Jeff Lewis (think Dexter but a little more femme), who gives funny names to every house he works on, constantly eats junk food yet is somehow totally buff, and is basically the gayest Patrick Bateman type we [...]

Remember when we told you about La Ronda, that awesome (and possibly of historic value) Spanish-style manse out in Bryn Mawr, which some anonymous jerkface wanted to raze to the ground? Welp, it looks like ol’ Moneybags McPlateO’Dicks is getting his way. But what of the protests? The historical concerns? Future generations? Whatever. In Bryn [...]

Somewhere, there’s a Phillies fan who loved Harry Kalas like we all did, like he was our own blood relation, who maybe has $625K laying around and can turn Harry’s humble four-bedroom Ridley Park rancher into a kind of living museum, a testament to the genteel old soul Harry was. Not to be like that, [...]

You know, part of the nice thing about everybody being broke as a joke all at the same time is that, suddenly, everyone can finally have a group hug and acknowledge the fact that there are beautiful things in the world none of us will ever, ever have. Take, for instance, 814-16 Pine Street. You’ve [...]

American Loft (pictured), that towering Northern Liberties testament to the mid-oughts real estate bubble and magical shit factory that was the development firm CREI, finally went to Sheriff’s Sale, just like we told you it would. And the winning bidder is… a company called American Street Lofts, who picked up the $15M building for a [...]

Back in 2006, American Loft, the 11-story dark prince that looms over Northern Liberties, (quite understandably) freaked us the hell out. There was something oh-so-bubbly about it; NoLibs might have won the Gentrification Olympics in Philly (for now), but even amidst the Piazzas and Thin Flats of the world, an 11-story Center City-style luxury condo [...]

One upshot of the recession is that it has really, really been great for people who like to look at other people’s houses. Take the property at right — it’s on the block of the current Philebrity HQ (though not for long, as in two weeks, we’re moving the whole operation here). And we can’t [...]

House not available for purchase with Second Life money at this time. We cannot tell a lie: We are fairly obsessed with the $100K House Project, local developer PostGreen‘s ballsy project to develop new, non-pre-fab spaces at a budget that, say, a social worker and bass player in a beardo band can afford when they [...]

We know it’s bringing you down: All your friends are eating beans and talking Recession Chic, but meanwhile, you’ve done well for yourself and definitely need a new place to max, relax, and make your world-famous dinosaur egg/Kristal soufflé. And yet, you don’t wanna bum out/alienate your dudes so you need a McMansion that is [...]

View Larger Map You know, things were going great during Monsoon ’08 on Saturday: We had a nice little stash of junk food, the weather outside was frightful, and all was well. And then we happened upon the episode of Renovation Nation called “Fishtown, PA: Geo Thermal Heating and Cooling”, and we learned the upshot [...]