Maryland · Fifth Judicial Circuit
Selling a house in Anne Arundel County
Anne Arundel wraps the western shore of the Chesapeake, from Brooklyn Park down to the Patuxent. That river is where this company got its name. Cases on Anne Arundel houses are filed in Annapolis, and the deed behind them was recorded a few doors down in the same building.
- 11 Maryland counties
- I read the county's records
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- Sold as-is
Where a case on your house would be filed
Cases on Anne Arundel County houses go to the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, at 8 Church Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401. It sits in the Fifth Judicial Circuit. Those records are public, and that’s how I read a docket before I call.
Where the deed lives
Every Maryland county keeps its land records in the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. For Anne Arundel County that’s Annapolis. Deeds, mortgages and liens all go there. They’re online too, through MDLandRec, which the State Archives runs. That’s the second record I read.
Where in Anne Arundel County I buy
Anywhere in Anne Arundel County — Annapolis, Glen Burnie, Severn, Odenton, Pasadena, Severna Park, Crofton, Arnold, and everywhere between them. One note on that list: Anne Arundel has only two incorporated municipalities, Annapolis and Highland Beach; almost everywhere else in the county is an unincorporated community. I haven’t ranked them by size, because I couldn’t verify a ranking from an official source, and a made-up one is still made up.
- Annapolis
- Glen Burnie
- Severn
- Odenton
- Pasadena
- Severna Park
- Crofton
- Arnold
- Ferndale
- Brooklyn Park
- Linthicum
- Edgewater
- Parole
- Highland Beach
One more thing about Anne Arundel County
Annapolis has been Maryland's state capital since the government moved there in 1694/5, and the county itself was created in 1650. At the 2020 Census the jurisdiction had 588,261 residents.
What I actually do here
I buy directly and as-is. No repairs, no cleaning, nothing hauled out. There’s no commission, because there’s no listing side. I pay the customary buyer’s closing costs, and you pick the date. If a case has already been filed in Annapolis, you can still sell — settlement just has to land before the sale date, and those dates are set by statute, so you can know them ahead of time, so they are knowable in advance rather than a surprise.