Transaction Coordination · Pennsylvania
Transaction Coordinator in Cameron County, PA.
Precision Leverage Solutions coordinates real estate transactions in Cameron County for Keller Williams agents, from ratified contract through settlement. Realty transfer tax here is 2.0%, deeds record through the Cameron County Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans Court, and we handle the county and municipal steps that decide whether your file closes on time. Billed per file, no retainer.
At a glanceCameron County, PA
Figures from the sections below. Confirm with the issuing office before relying on one for a live file.
What we handle on a Cameron County file
Cameron County is one of the smallest recording jurisdictions in Pennsylvania: the PA DCED tax register lists seven municipalities, the boroughs of Emporium and Driftwood and five townships, all in the Cameron County School District. One elected office in the Emporium courthouse serves as Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, and Clerk of Orphans Court. The details that trip a closing here are on the Recorder's fee schedule itself: three separate checks when both state and local transfer tax are due, a tax parcel number on every instrument that affects land, and restricted forms of payment. County subdivision rules reach every municipality, and Emporium Borough adds its own landlord reporting rules for investor purchases. Once your deal is ratified, PLS builds and manages the file in KW Command, tracks every deadline and contingency, routes documents for signature, and coordinates with lender, title, attorneys, and the co-op agent. See the full transaction coordination service for the complete scope, and the Pennsylvania overview for statewide notes.
Realty transfer tax in Cameron County: 2.0%
Cameron County is uniform at 2 percent: 1% to the Commonwealth, 0.5% to the municipality, and 0.5% to the school district. The PA DCED 2026 tax register shows 0.5% municipal and 0.5% for the Cameron County School District in all seven municipalities. The Recorder's fee schedule requires every deed to set forth the true consideration, and when a full or partial exemption is claimed the deed must come with an original and a copy of the Affidavit of Value (the REV-183 Statement of Value, which the Recorder posts) unless the exemption is noted in the deed. When the property lies in two or more taxing authorities, the preparer must show on the deed the value in each one for local transfer tax purposes.
Recording a deed in Cameron County
The Cameron County Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans Court sits at Cameron County Courthouse, 20 East Fifth Street, Emporium, PA 15834, 814-486-3349. The current recording fee is $84.75 for a deed, effective December 1, 2025. This is the current figure from the schedule the office labels 2025 and 2026. A mortgage is also $84.75, a satisfaction, release, assignment, or subordination is $71.75, an easement or right of way is $69.75, and a Clean and Green preferential assessment filing is $52.00. All instruments add $2.00 per page over four, $0.50 per name over four, and $0.50 per parcel over one. Acceptable forms of payment are cash, money order, attorney's check, or business check. The office is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:00, including the lunch hour, with a second line at 814-486-3355, and records are online through Landex.
The fee schedule sets the conditions. Any instrument that has any effect on land is required to have a tax parcel number stated in the instrument. If a deed has local and state transfer taxes due, the office requires three separate checks, each made payable to Recorder of Deeds. A deed claiming an exemption needs the original and a copy of the Affidavit of Value unless the exemption is noted in the deed, and a deed crossing two taxing authorities must state the value in each.
Recording fees and transfer tax rates for every county we coordinate in are collected side by side on our recording fee and transfer tax reference.
What actually holds up a closing here
Three checks, a parcel number, and a short list of accepted payment
The Cameron County Recorder's fee schedule, effective December 1, 2025, lists the conditions on its second page. A deed with local and state transfer taxes due needs three separate checks, each payable to Recorder of Deeds. Every instrument that has any effect on land must state a tax parcel number. The schedule lists the acceptable forms of payment as cash, money order, attorney's check, or business check; a personal check is not on that list, so do not send one without calling first. A deed claiming a full or partial exemption must be accompanied by an original and a copy of the Affidavit of Value unless the exemption is noted in the deed, and when the land sits in two or more taxing authorities the preparer has to state on the deed the value in each. Parcel numbers come from the Assessment Office in the same courthouse, 814-486-0723, which also posts the county's online property records map. Confirm the check split with the title company before the package ships, because the office is small and a returned package costs days by mail.
Deed and mortgage fees carry the county demolition fund increase
Cameron County charges $84.75 to record a deed and $84.75 to record a mortgage under the schedule effective December 1, 2025. The schedule itself explains part of the difference: the 2017 fee increase for deeds and mortgages benefits the Cameron County Demolition Fund, to be used for the removal of blighted properties within the county. A financed purchase therefore carries $169.50 in base recording fees for the deed and mortgage before any extra pages, names, or parcels, at $2.00 per page over four and $0.50 per name over four or parcel over one. Use the Cameron figures on the estimate rather than a number carried over from Elk, Potter, or McKean.
Emporium Borough's posted code makes new landlords report within 30 days
Emporium Borough Code Chapter 11, Part 1, Tenant Registration Reports, as posted under Borough Ordinances on the Borough's website, requires any person who becomes a landlord of real estate in the Borough by agreement of sale, by deed, or by any other means to report to the Borough Manager within 30 days, on the Borough's form, the dwelling and business units owned, their addresses and descriptions, whether they are occupied, and the tenants' names (sections 103 and 104). Under section 105 any later change in use or occupancy, including a unit becoming vacant, has to be reported within 10 days after the landlord knows of it. Section 107 sets a fine of up to $600.00 plus costs. The Borough also posts a combined Emporium Borough and Shippen Township Land Owner Registration Form that asks, unit by unit, whether the garbage or sewage bill will be in the owner's name, and a matching tenant registration form. The posted chapter dates from a 1993 codification, so confirm with the Borough office, 814-486-0768, that the report is still collected in this form, and put both forms on the post-closing checklist for any investor purchase in Emporium or Shippen Township.
Unpaid Emporium sewer charges are a lien on the property
Emporium Borough Code Chapter 18, section 206, as posted on the Borough's website, provides that sewer rentals and charges are a lien on the improved property connected to and served by the sewer system, and that delinquent charges are filed as a lien in the office of the Prothonotary of Cameron County and collected as municipal claims. Ask the Borough office, 814-486-0768, who bills the account today, request a final reading and a written payoff of the sewer and garbage account before closing, and have title check the Prothonotary's municipal lien docket, because an unpaid balance follows the property rather than the seller.
Any lot split goes through the county Planning Commission
The Cameron County Planning Commission oversees subdivision and land development under the Cameron County Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance 95-1, and the county states that the ordinance applies to all Cameron County municipalities. Applications must be prepared by a Professional Land Surveyor and submitted to the county Planning Director, and they are reviewed by the Planning Commission, the county Zoning Office, the Conservation District, and the governing body of the municipality. The Commission meets the second Monday of each month at 9:00 a.m. as needed, so a split that misses one meeting can wait a month. The same page notes that the Cameron County Zoning Ordinance does not apply to Emporium Borough, which has its own zoning ordinance. On a sale with a new description or a carved-off lot, get the surveyor engaged before the agreement sets a closing date.
Delinquent taxes and Clean and Green run through one small office
The Cameron County Tax Claim Bureau and the Assessment Office share a phone, 814-486-0723, and the same staff at the courthouse, 20 East Fifth Street, open 8:30 to 4:00 through the lunch hour. Delinquent taxes can be paid there by cash, check, or money order, or online through the county's PayLocalGov page using the control number from the tax bill. The Bureau holds its upset sale in September each year, and a property sold at upset sale is sold subject to all liens, mortgages, and judgments, so a file opened in late summer on a delinquent parcel needs the payoff confirmed before that date. For land in preferential assessment, the Recorder lists $52.00 for a Clean and Green filing.
Act 29 contact form for buyers who will not live in the property
Pennsylvania Act 29 of 2026 (HB 858, approved July 20, 2026, adding 68 Pa.C.S. Chapter 25) took effect September 18, 2026 and requires each county chief assessor to keep a contact information list for real property that is not owned and occupied by an individual as a principal residence and domicile. A purchaser of covered property must give the county assessment office the owner name, address, telephone number, and email address within 30 days of purchase, a business or limited liability company must also name a person with the authority and ability to remedy a property maintenance problem or municipal code violation, and later changes must be reported within 30 days. The Act authorizes a county fine of up to $500 for intentionally or knowingly giving false information or failing to update it. Counties are rolling out their own forms at different speeds, so on any Cameron County purchase where the buyer will not occupy the property as a principal residence, ask the Assessment Office for its current form and where to send it.
Pricing
Transaction coordination in Pennsylvania is billed per file, not as a monthly retainer. Contract to close is $400 per transaction, and the full rate card including dual agency, transaction licensee, unrepresented party (FSBO or URB), and listing management is published on our pricing page. No fixed overhead, no minimum volume.
Where these figures come from
The county-level figures on this page come from the official sources listed below. Municipal fees and deadlines come from each municipality's own published schedules and ordinances, which are revised more often than they are archived. We publish what we could verify and leave out what we could not. Fees and ordinances change; if you are relying on a figure here for a live file, confirm it with the issuing office, and tell us if you find a discrepancy so we can correct the page.
- Cameron County Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans Court
- Cameron County Recorder of Deeds fee schedule, effective December 1, 2025
- Cameron County Assessment Office
- Cameron County Tax Claim Bureau
- Cameron County Planning Commission
- Emporium Borough, Borough Related page (Borough Ordinances list and Borough office contact)
- Emporium Borough, Forms page
- Emporium Borough Code, Chapter 11 Housing, Part 1 Tenant Registration Reports
- Emporium Borough Code, Chapter 18 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Emporium Borough and Shippen Township Land Owner Registration Form
- PA DCED Municipal Statistics, 2026 tax register
- PA Department of Revenue, Realty Transfer Tax
- Pennsylvania General Assembly, House Bill 858 (Act 29 of 2026, 68 Pa.C.S. Chapter 25)
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Cameron County questions.
Do you provide transaction coordination in Cameron County, PA?
Yes. Precision Leverage Solutions works exclusively with Keller Williams agents and coordinates transactions throughout Cameron County and the rest of Pennsylvania, from the ratified contract through settlement. We also serve KW agents in New Jersey and Delaware. Pricing is per file with no retainer.
What is the realty transfer tax in Cameron County?
Cameron County is uniform at 2 percent: 1% to the Commonwealth, 0.5% to the municipality, and 0.5% to the school district. The PA DCED 2026 tax register shows 0.5% municipal and 0.5% for the Cameron County School District in all seven municipalities. The Recorder's fee schedule requires every deed to set forth the true consideration, and when a full or partial exemption is claimed the deed must come with an original and a copy of the Affidavit of Value (the REV-183 Statement of Value, which the Recorder posts) unless the exemption is noted in the deed. When the property lies in two or more taxing authorities, the preparer must show on the deed the value in each one for local transfer tax purposes.
How much does it cost to record a deed in Cameron County?
$84.75 for a deed, effective December 1, 2025, through the Cameron County Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans Court. This is the current figure from the schedule the office labels 2025 and 2026. A mortgage is also $84.75, a satisfaction, release, assignment, or subordination is $71.75, an easement or right of way is $69.75, and a Clean and Green preferential assessment filing is $52.00. All instruments add $2.00 per page over four, $0.50 per name over four, and $0.50 per parcel over one. Acceptable forms of payment are cash, money order, attorney's check, or business check. The office is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:00, including the lunch hour, with a second line at 814-486-3355, and records are online through Landex.
How much does a transaction coordinator cost in Cameron County?
Contract-to-close coordination is $400 per transaction in Pennsylvania. Dual agency, transaction licensee service, unrepresented party coordination (FSBO or URB), multi-unit transactions, and listing management are each priced separately and published in full on our pricing page. There are no monthly fees, retainers, or minimum volume requirements.
What does the Cameron County Recorder require with a deed?
The Cameron County Recorder's fee schedule, effective December 1, 2025, lists the conditions on its second page. A deed with local and state transfer taxes due needs three separate checks, each payable to Recorder of Deeds. Every instrument that has any effect on land must state a tax parcel number. The schedule lists the acceptable forms of payment as cash, money order, attorney's check, or business check; a personal check is not on that list, so do not send one without calling first. A deed claiming a full or partial exemption must be accompanied by an original and a copy of the Affidavit of Value unless the exemption is noted in the deed, and when the land sits in two or more taxing authorities the preparer has to state on the deed the value in each. Parcel numbers come from the Assessment Office in the same courthouse, 814-486-0723, which also posts the county's online property records map. Confirm the check split with the title company before the package ships, because the office is small and a returned package costs days by mail.
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