Which municipality are you actually in
Glenside, Ambler 19002, Willow Grove and Abington's seventeen mailing names — four places where the post office and the tax collector draw different lines, and how to settle it from the parcel record.
Read itHow property tax works here
The 1996 base year, the 3.36 Common Level Ratio factor, why millage is comparable across all sixty-two municipalities, the 1 August appeal deadline, and the referendum millage the county's own sheet leaves out.
Read itThe transfer tax is two percent
Two percent at every address, why the home rule story makes people think otherwise, the neighbouring counties where it really does change, what a refinance owes, and which family transfers are exempt.
Read itSchool district lines and the bill
What a mill is worth in each district, 2026-27 rates across the county, the Act 1 index and the two districts that went past it, the 5.2x spread in homestead relief, and the earned income tax nobody escrows.
Read itPFAS, private wells and your loan
Where the contamination came from, the federal limits that are actually in force in August 2026, what the Navy has paid for and connected, the difference between the aquifer and the tap, and the questions to ask before an appraisal.
Read itThe former base, and what is built
The 862-acre site, what the 2012 plan calls for, why the environmental sequence controls the calendar, the two conflicting first-tranche figures, and what a buyer nearby should and should not read into it.
Read itFlooding along the Schuylkill and Perkiomen
Crest records and flood stages at Norristown, Pottstown and Graterford, what Ida did inside Collegeville Borough, and how a Special Flood Hazard Area, an escrowed flood policy and an elevation certificate land inside a loan file.
Read itClosing costs in Montgomery County
The 2% transfer tax, title and recording, the REV-183 Statement of Value, escrow built from the real millage stack, the borough inspections that eat a closing calendar, and why a new owner's tax bill can beat the seller's.
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