Maryland · Sixth Judicial Circuit
Selling a house in Montgomery County
Montgomery County runs from the District line up the Potomac to the farmland above Poolesville, and it's the most populous jurisdiction in Maryland. Cases are filed on Maryland Avenue in Rockville, and the Clerk of that court records the land records for the whole county.
- 11 Maryland counties
- I read the county's records
- A live phone within a minute
- Sold as-is
Where a case on your house would be filed
Cases on Montgomery County houses go to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850. It sits in the Sixth 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 Montgomery County that’s Rockville. 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 Montgomery County I buy
Anywhere in Montgomery County — Rockville, Gaithersburg, Silver Spring, Bethesda, Germantown, Wheaton, Potomac, North Bethesda, and everywhere between them. One note on that list: seven incorporated municipalities and a set of very large unincorporated communities. 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.
- Rockville
- Gaithersburg
- Silver Spring
- Bethesda
- Germantown
- Wheaton
- Potomac
- North Bethesda
- Aspen Hill
- Olney
- Montgomery Village
- Clarksburg
- Damascus
- Takoma Park
- Kensington
- Poolesville
One more thing about Montgomery County
With 1,062,061 residents at the 2020 Census, Montgomery is Maryland's most populous jurisdiction, ahead of Prince George's. It was created in 1776 and is one of only two counties where Circuit Court judges preside over the Orphans' Court. At the 2020 Census the jurisdiction had 1,062,061 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 Rockville, 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.