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Yes. Under Article 1731, as amended in July 2026, the city has to inspect a property before its title transfers. You or your agent contact the Housing Inspections Bureau within 10 days of offering the home for sale and schedule the inspection at least 30 days before closing. The report stays valid for one year. A refinance by the current owner and a property with a valid demolition permit are exempt.

Yes. Before closing, you give the buyer copies of any violation notices, and the buyer signs a statement for the city taking on the repairs without conditions. The buyer then has 12 months from the purchase date to fix them, or longer if the city agrees. If the inspector finds conditions that make the home unfit to live in, no new occupant can move in until they're corrected. We buy Bethlehem houses as-is.

Yes. We buy houses in every part of Bethlehem, including the Bethlehem Historic District north of the Lehigh River, the South Bethlehem Historic Conservation District and the Mount Airy neighborhood on the West Side. In those three districts, exterior changes need a Certificate of Appropriateness before a building permit is issued, so a buyer's plans for windows, porches or siding go through design review first.

Expect extra rules. Bethlehem licenses every residential rental unit each year and inspects it every three years, rentals to students or to groups of unrelated tenants fall under Article 1739, and a Student Housing zoning district steers student housing toward areas close to a college or public transit. Have your license and tenant information ready. We buy rental properties as-is, on the closing date you choose.

As of September 2026, the realty transfer tax on a sale in Bethlehem is 2% in total: 1% state + 0.5% City of Bethlehem + 0.5% Bethlehem Area School District.

The Northampton County Register of Wills and Orphans Court handles probate when the owner lived in Northampton County, which includes most of Bethlehem. When the owner lived in the part of Bethlehem in Lehigh County, it's the Lehigh County Register of Wills (Clerk of Judicial Records). Pennsylvania law places probate in the county where the owner last lived, so if the owner lived in another Pennsylvania county, that county's Register of Wills handles it instead. If the owner lived outside Pennsylvania, the will can be probated in any Pennsylvania county where they owned property, including the county this home is in.