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The Municipal Database and Weekly News Briefs remain key parts of the site, and a new Local Tax Calculator has been added.

The Suburban Realtors® Alliance offers free office visits to members of the Bucks County Association of Realtors® and Tri-County Suburban Realtors®.

An SRA staff member will come to your location — in person or virtually — to discuss the topics below and answer any questions:

Zoning is one of the most important functions of a municipal government, and zoning maps are crucial to long-range planning, economic development and quality of life.

However, the quality of municipal maps varies a lot.

Every other week, we post a survey question in our news briefs. Here are a few of the questions that drew the most responses in the past half-year. 

Easttown Township supervisors recently commissioned a revenue study on the potential impact of a local earned income tax (EIT). After reviewing the data and hearing from residents, supervisors voted 3-2 to abandon plans for an EIT in 2024. But the ...

Municipal codes cover a lot of ground — from regulating how tall apartment buildings can be, down to providing instructions on how many minutes tattoo artists must boil the nail file they use to clean their hands. (It’s 15 minutes in ...

HUD's 203(k) program enables homebuyers and homeowners to finance both the purchase (or refinancing) of a house and the cost of its rehabilitation through a single mortgage, or to finance the rehabilitation of their existing home. More information ...

Ambler Borough is considering a proposed residential resale inspection ordinance. The proposed ordinance includes required inspections of certain items prior to the transfer of a property, including:sewer lateralselectrical certificationcurb, ...

Update 6/16/2023: The school board voted unanimously on June 15 to simply divide the $740,000 among all 8,431 property owners. Each property owner in the borough will receive an $88 reduction on their tax bill as a rebate. Read the Pottstown ...

School districts are crafting budgets for the 2023-2024 school year. Much of the timeline centers around Act 1, a 2006 state law that sets a maximum tax increase for each school district each year. Districts can exceed their caps by asking voters to ...