Office of the Sheriff
100 South Broad St.
5th floor
Phila., PA 19110
Main Phone:
215-686-3530
Real Estate Phone:
215-686-3535

Save Your Home Philly Hotline
(215) 334-HOME (4663)
Under a new Pilot Project of the Court of Common Pleas, if you live in Philadelphia and are facing foreclosure, you may be able to get help with your mortgage. You will be put in touch with a non-profit Housing Counselor who will help you try to work out an agreement with your mortgage company. You will have the right to go to a conference under the court's supervision where a reasonable work out can be arranged. This help is available for owner occupied residential properties. To get this help you must be call the Hotline and go to an approved Housing Counselor. If you're facing foreclosure on your home MAKE THIS CALL TODAY! 215 334-HOME (215 334-4663)

Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program Joint General Court Regulation No. 2008-01

Owners of residential properties which are subject to Sheriff's Sale to enforce a residential mortgage who live in the property may be eligible to have the Sheriff Sale postponed and may receive help to save their home.
Qualified homeowners MUST file a Certification of Premises As Residential - Owner Occupied and Request For Conciliation Conference form  with the Prothonotary (Room 278 City Hall) as soon as possible, but no later than ten days before the date of the Sheriff's Sale to have the Sheriff's Sale of their home postponed. Download form

To find out whether you qualify, and for more information, please call the
SAVE YOUR HOME PHILLY HOTLINE at 215-334-HOME (215-334-4663).

More information is also available on the following links:
Regulations regarding cases scheduled for Sheriff's Sale on August 5, 2008 and September 9, 2008

List of HUD Approved Housing Counseling Agencies

The Philadelphia courts website: First Judicial District of Pennsylvania
Download Regulations for the:
Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program

Sheriff Green Postpones April Mortgage Sale
In response to City Council's resolution asking for a moratorium on mortgage foreclosure sales, the sheriff has postponed the sale scheduled for Tuesday, April 1st. Information regarding rescheduling of future sales will be posted as soon as it is available.

Hang up! Don't fall for it.
Sheriff Green urges constituents to beware of a popular identification theft scheme involving jury service.

According to the FBI, some con artists identifying themselves as U.S. court employees, called citizens in areas across the country inquiring about their failure to report for jury duty. If the person denies ever receiving a jury summons, the caller asks for the person’s name and Social Security number, and may request credit card numbers to pay “fines” ...more...

Sold, Postponed, or Stayed?
The results of Sheriff's Sales will be posted two weeks following the sale.
      
Are You Behind in Your Mortgage Payments?
Options to help homeowners who become delinquent in their mortgage payments, avoid foreclosure.
Have You Been Treated Fairly?
You have certain rights in dealing with a mortgage company or a mortgage servicer.

Pennsylvania Treasury Bureau of Unclaimed Property

Civil Relief Act
Major Provisions of Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act (SSCRA) of 1940.

3129s Online
View lien holder information on Mortgage Foreclosure properties.

2009
Sheriff's Sale
Schedule

Tax Delinquent listings are not available on this site.  Check the schedule of newspaper advertising for publication dates