Maryland · Third Judicial Circuit
Selling a house in Baltimore County
Baltimore County wraps around the city on three sides without containing it, from the Pennsylvania line down to the Patapsco. Cases are filed at the County Courts Building in Towson, and the land records for the whole county sit in that same courthouse.
- 11 Maryland counties
- I read the county's records
- A live phone within a minute
- Sold as-is
I buy in part of Baltimore County, not all of it
Around Baltimore I work a set list of ZIP codes instead of the whole jurisdiction. Here it is in full. If yours isn’t on it, I’m not the right buyer for your house, and I’d rather you read that here than find out on a call.
- 21022
- 21122
- 21206
- 21209
- 21218
- 21219
- 21224
- 21229
- 21234
- 21236
- 21237
- 21239
- 21252
- 21286
Where a case on your house would be filed
Cases on Baltimore County houses go to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, County Courts Building, at 401 Bosley Avenue, Towson, MD 21204. It sits in the Third 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 Baltimore County that’s Towson. 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 Baltimore County I buy
Anywhere inside the ZIP codes above. They reach Towson, Dundalk, Essex, Catonsville, Owings Mills, Pikesville, Parkville, Randallstown and the streets around them. One note on that list: every community in Baltimore County is unincorporated, so these are Census-designated places rather than towns. 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.
- Towson
- Dundalk
- Essex
- Catonsville
- Owings Mills
- Pikesville
- Parkville
- Randallstown
- Woodlawn
- Reisterstown
- Perry Hall
- Middle River
- Rosedale
- Cockeysville
- Carney
- Overlea
- Timonium
- Lutherville
- White Marsh
- Arbutus
One more thing about Baltimore County
Baltimore County has no incorporated towns or cities at all. Towson, its seat, is an unincorporated community, and so is every other place on the list above. At the 2020 Census the jurisdiction had 854,535 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 Towson, 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.