Let Us Help you Find your Dream Home. As top Southern Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland REALTORS®, we make it our business to be aware of every local home or property on the market. We have direct access to three MLS (Multiple Listings Service) including, Maryland, Southern Pennsylvania and Central Pennsylvania. We see properties listed by all real estate companies. If you give us some idea of what you are looking for, we'll personally review our listing information and send you everything within your price range that matches your criteria. Tell us what you are looking for! It's our job to know every property in Southern York County and Northern Maryland, even ones not listed online. 
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Tax Considerations >Your Tax Free Profits
Significant tax reform legislation was signed into law with the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. This legislation replaced both the one-time $125,000 tax-free exclusion for homeowners aged 55 and older, and the "rollover" deferment of capital gains tax requiring the purchase of a replacement home of higher or equal cost within two years of the sale of your principal residence.
With this change, a married couple filing their taxes jointly pays capital gains taxes only on that portion of home sales profits that exceeds $500,000. Single taxpayers, heads of households, and married persons filing separately may exclude up to $250,000. The exclusion is available for all sales of homes that occurred on or after May 6, 1997. Homeowners can use this tax-free provision every two years.
You are allowed to keep these tax-free profits only if you have owned and used the home as your principal residence for two out of the five years prior to the sale of the property. Although the regulations do not require continuous occupancy, the IRS specifies that your principal residence must be the home you use for the majority of time during the year. Consult your tax advisor about your personal circumstance.
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