Transaction Coordinator in Franklin County, PA.

What we handle on a Franklin County file

Franklin County is made up of 22 municipalities, 7 boroughs and 15 townships, and every deed records through one office on North Second Street in Chambersburg, where County Ordinance 2014-1 requires a certified 20-digit UPI number at the top of page one. The municipal layer is where Franklin files diverge. Waynesboro requires a Code Official inspection before any two-family or multifamily rental is sold, Chambersburg Borough is the electric, gas, water, and sewer provider for its own residents, and Antrim and Washington Townships both run three-year septic pumping programs by district. 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.

• KW Command fileBuilds and manages the file in KW Command.
• Every deadlineTracks every deadline and contingency.
• SignaturesRoutes documents for signature.
• Every partyCoordinates with lender, title, attorneys, and the co-op agent.

Realty transfer tax in Franklin County: 2.0%

The Recorder's fee schedule states that a state tax of 1% of the consideration and a local tax of the same is due when recording. The split is 1% to the Commonwealth, 0.5% to the municipality, and 0.5% to the school district, and the DCED Municipal Statistics tax register for 2026 shows that 0.5% and 0.5% local split for every Franklin municipality except Guilford Township, which it lists at 1% township and 1% school district. That Guilford entry reads as a reporting artifact, not a higher tax: Guilford is the only Franklin municipality the register splits between two school districts (Chambersburg Area and Waynesboro Area), and every Guilford figure in it is doubled, including a school real estate millage of 279.7586 against the 139.8793 mills the same register shows for the Chambersburg Area School District in every other municipality. The Chambersburg Area School District, which lists Guilford among its municipalities, publishes a 2% total: 1% Commonwealth, 0.5% municipality, and 0.5% school district. Treat Guilford as 2% total, and because the township's own ordinance was not available online to confirm it, call the Recorder at 717-261-3872 before drafting a Guilford settlement statement. Chambersburg Borough's section 264-34, adopted October 28, 1987 by Ordinance 87-9, imposes 1% and reduces it to one half of that rate while another political subdivision taxes the same transfer. All deeds must set forth the true consideration or carry a fully completed Statement of Value (REV-183), which the schedule also requires on deeds over 30 days old, deeds of distribution, corrective deeds, and any deed claiming an exemption. Where a property is located in two or more taxing authorities, the deed must state the value of the property in each one. The common level ratio factor is 13.89 for July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.

1%Commonwealth

0.5%Municipality

0.5%School district

• Commonwealth1%
• Municipality0.5%
• School district0.5%

Recording a deed in Franklin County

The Franklin County Recorder of Deeds sits at 272 North Second Street, Chambersburg, PA 17201, 717-261-3872. The current recording fee is $92.75 for a deed, effective November 17, 2025. Every document is priced at four pages and four names, with $2.00 per page over four and $0.50 per name over four. The base fee includes one UPI certification, and each additional UPI certification is $20.00. A mortgage is $92.75, a satisfaction, release, or assignment is $81.75, a power of attorney to sell real estate is $38.50, and a Statement of Value is $1.00. The office is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and accepts documents in person, by mail, or by e-recording through Simplifile, CSC, or EPN.

Franklin County Ordinance 2014-1, effective August 4, 2014, requires each applicable UPI number at the top of the first page of the document, and the county asks that the property address and the township or borough also appear on the first page. A newly created parcel needs at least two UPI numbers on the document, the new one and the parent parcel's. The Tax Assessment Office assigns and certifies the UPI at $20.00 per number with no cap, payable to the Recorder with the recording fees, works to a 24-hour or one business day turnaround, and does not guarantee same-day verification after 3:30 p.m. Documents missing a required UPI, or carrying erroneous information, are returned with a rejection notice, and the person submitting the document is responsible for the UPI being correct. Deeds without a stated consideration, deeds over 30 days old, corrective deeds, deeds of distribution, and deeds claiming an exemption must carry a fully completed Statement of Value.

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

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.