Tullytown’s $60 inspection is one of the cheapest in Bucks County. The schedule risk lives elsewhere: the sewer authority’s easement inspection wants thirty days, and its own guidance says to request it the day the listing goes live. Add a fire certification, a chimney certificate where there is a fireplace, and a transfer tax the borough never sees, and this square mile by the river has more moving parts than its size suggests.
The Tullytown picture
Under two thousand residents, Pennsbury schools, and Cape Cods and ranchers priced at the district’s entry point: Tullytown sells to first-time buyers who finance carefully and appraise everything. The houses that settle on schedule are the ones whose paperwork started with the listing, not the agreement of sale.
The $60 inspection
The borough’s U&O runs $60 with a $30 reinspection and ten working days notice, and serves as both the point-of-sale and rental turnover check. Fire inspection and certification ride with it, chimney and vent certification applies where there is a fireplace, and chimney, electrical, and heater certificates round out the required list.
The thirty-day easement clock
- Request it at listing. The Lower Bucks County Joint Municipal Authority inspects sewer easements at point of sale, wants a minimum of thirty days, and says in its own guidance that a house need not be under agreement to request one: 215-946-0731.
- The runway is the point. The authority encourages early requests precisely so sellers have time to correct what the inspection finds, on their own schedule rather than a buyer’s.
- The transfer tax quirk. The borough collects no realty transfer tax; Pennsbury School District takes the full 1% local share. The seller’s math is unchanged, the destination is not.
The Pennsylvania money
The total realty transfer tax is the standard 2%, customarily split, so the seller’s half on a $350,000 sale is $3,500. Pennsylvania withholds nothing at settlement, and the federal exclusion, $250,000 single and $500,000 married, covers owner-occupants here entirely. The home-sale tax guide and the cost-to-sell guide carry the detail.
Getting started
The Tullytown order: a free valuation, the easement inspection requested the day the sign goes up, the U&O booked ten working days out, and the fire and chimney certifications ordered early. Next door, the Levittown guide covers the sections across the borough line, the Falls Township guide the Pennsbury-side township, and the Bucks County downsizing guide maps where sellers here land next.