We can sell your house fast in Hershey PA

Derry Township, in Dauphin County. Hershey has no council or mayor of its own: the Census Bureau draws its boundary purely for statistics, and the whole census-designated place sits within Derry Township, so the township's ordinances and permits cover your house. A Hershey mailing address is not proof of that, because the 17033 ZIP code also reaches neighboring townships and part of Lebanon County, so go by the municipality named in your deed.

A request for the final bill. The Derry Township Municipal Authority's Property Sale Final Request Form, emailed to the authority, gives the sale date, the settlement company, the seller's forwarding address and the buyer's details, and asks whether the house will be a rental. The authority then works out the final sewer and stormwater charges and any amount to hold in escrow. It bills only sewer and stormwater, not water.

Since 2017 the Derry Township Municipal Authority has charged a stormwater program fee to township properties with at least 500 square feet of hard surfaces such as roofs, driveways and patios. The fee is counted in units of 3,800 square feet; it started at $6.50 a month per unit, and the authority says it has had to raise it to $10. Homes on public sewer see it as a line on the sewer bill.

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

The Dauphin County Register of Wills & Clerk of Orphans' Court handles probate when the owner lived in Dauphin County, which includes Hershey. 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.