Maryland · Seventh Judicial Circuit
Selling a house in Prince George's County
Prince George's County borders the District on the east and runs down the Patuxent to the Charles County line. Cases are filed at the Court House on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, and the deeds behind them were recorded by the Clerk in the same town.
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- Sold as-is
Where a case on your house would be filed
Cases on Prince George's County houses go to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Court House, at 14735 Main Street, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772. It sits in the Seventh 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 Prince George's County that’s Upper Marlboro. 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 Prince George's County I buy
Anywhere in Prince George's County — Bowie, College Park, Laurel, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, New Carrollton, District Heights, Upper Marlboro, and everywhere between them. One note on that list: an unusually large number of incorporated cities and towns, plus several very large Census-designated places. 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.
- Bowie
- College Park
- Laurel
- Greenbelt
- Hyattsville
- New Carrollton
- District Heights
- Upper Marlboro
- Cheverly
- Riverdale Park
- Clinton
- Fort Washington
- Camp Springs
- Suitland
- Oxon Hill
- Largo
- Beltsville
- Adelphi
- South Laurel
- National Harbor
One more thing about Prince George's County
Prince George's was created in 1695 and is Maryland's second most populous jurisdiction, with 967,201 residents at the 2020 Census. It contains the University of Maryland's flagship campus at College Park and Joint Base Andrews. At the 2020 Census the jurisdiction had 967,201 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 Upper Marlboro, 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.