Selling a house in Maryland, Washington DC or Northern Virginia means paying transfer and recordation taxes that are fixed by statute. You cannot negotiate them away, and they vary enormously from one county to the next — the same sale can cost thousands more in one county than in the one next door. These free calculators show what those taxes come to on your sale price, and how much of the bill customarily falls on the seller.
- Maryland Transfer Tax Calculator — current rates for all 24 Maryland counties, including Montgomery County’s tiered recordation brackets and the county owner-occupied exemptions.
- DC Transfer Tax Calculator — the 1.1% and 1.45% rates and the $400,000 threshold, where a single dollar of sale price can cost the two parties $2,800.
- Virginia Grantor Tax Calculator — the statewide grantor’s tax, plus the regional congestion relief and WMATA fees that triple it across Northern Virginia.
Transfer taxes are only one line of what selling actually costs. On a traditional sale they sit alongside agent commission, the repairs a buyer’s inspection turns up, and the carrying cost of every month the house sits unsold. We buy houses across Maryland, DC and Virginia for cash, as-is, with no commission and no repair list — get a cash offer and compare it against what the calculator shows.
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