Edgmont, between Newtown Square and Media along Route 352, sells on Rose Tree Media schools and land. Its resale rule ignores the house entirely and points a camera down the sewer lateral: homes in the Public Sewer District need a township-witnessed televising and cross-connection inspection before they sell, with 30 days of notice so repairs can happen before the settlement date.
The Edgmont seller picture
This is one of Delaware County’s downsizing crossroads: long-tenured owners on acre-plus lots, and buyers who include the same demographic heading for the township’s newer low-maintenance communities. The municipal step runs through the township office and its inspector, Linn Architects, the same firm several neighboring municipalities use, and the deliverable is a Certificate of Compliance, not a U&O card.
The sewer process
- 01Notify the township 30 days before the sale, per the use and occupancy requirements page. The point of the lead time is repair room: a cracked lateral found two weeks before settlement is a crisis, the same crack found six weeks out is a line item.
- 02Check the five-year window. No township-witnessed televising in the last five years means the full requirement: a $250 permit, your own contractor televising the line, and the inspector witnessing the cross-connection check inside the house. Within five years, it is a $150 cross-connection inspection with no contractor.
- 03Deliver the video file. The township wants the televising file emailed to its administrator, and it does not accept YouTube links or online videos. The Certificate of Compliance issues after the township has both the passing inspection and the footage.
What else matters
The house itself faces no municipal inspection, so the buyer’s inspector is the only one, and Edgmont buyers at these price points inspect thoroughly: wells and septic on the unsewered lots, pools, barns, and the permit history on decades of improvements. Construction certificates of occupancy are real here, per the township’s permit page, so unclosed permits surface in title work even without a resale inspection. Neighbors run different processes: Newtown Square and Upper Providence both inspect the house.
The Pennsylvania money
Edgmont sits at the standard 2% total realty transfer tax, customarily split, so the seller’s half on an $800,000 sale is $8,000. Pennsylvania withholds nothing at settlement, and long tenures on appreciating land make the federal exclusion, $250,000 single, $500,000 married, a genuine planning question here; improvement records on additions, pools, and outbuildings raise the basis. The home-sale tax guide and the cost-to-sell guide carry the detail.
Getting started
The Edgmont order: a free valuation that prices the land correctly, the township notified 30 days out with the five-year televising history confirmed, and the improvement records assembled for both the buyer’s inspector and the tax return. The Delaware County downsizing guide maps where sellers here land next, and the sequencing guide settles whether to sell or buy first.