Montgomery County

400 Properties with Delinquent Tax Bills Up for Sale at Montgomery County Auction

After the Montgomery County treasurer's office put more than 1,000 properties up for sale this summer because of delinquent taxes, hundreds of owners paid what they had owed.

Since the first warning in July, some 600 taxpayers made good on their property taxes, Treasurer Jason Salus said Friday.

"The results of these efforts has been an influx of $2,671,295.73 in delinquent tax revenue to our county, local school districts and municipalities," Salus said in a statement.

Now, it's make-or-break time for the owners of the remaining roughly 400 properties that remain in arrears. All but two of the properties listed by the treasurer are less than $100,000 in arrears. Many of them owe less than $10,000.

Still, one property listed as 810 Chateau Ln, Lower Merion, is an outlier on the list. The property owner, listed as David Cutler, owes $498,710. The only other listing above $100,000 is 405 York Rd., Jenkintown. It's listed owners, Marvin L. and Harriet Weizer, owe $120,273.

The Lower Merion estate is known as Skyview. It was built on 6 acres of hilltop land off Mount Pleasant Road in 1990 by a then well-known builder of Main Line estates, John Kolea.

Real estate records show Kolea sold the property to Cutler in June 1990 for $3.2 million. Cutler could not immediately be reached for comment. He tried selling the residence, which is in the Villanova section of Lower Merion, in 2014 for $8.9 million. It didn't sell. It was again listed this year for $6 million and then $5 million, but it didn't sell again. It is no longer on the market, according to Zillow.

In total, the value of the taxes owed by all 400 properties is more than $3.3 million. But a spokeswoman for the treasurer's office said that total will decrease in the days leading up to the auction next week as some property owners arrange for payment.

A county sale of those properties has been set for 10 a.m., Sept. 22, in courtroom A of the county courthouse, 2 E. Airy St., Norristown.

Second Deputy Treasurer Bridget Lafferty said those on the list have until 5 p.m., Sept. 21, to make arrangements with the county to pay back the taxes overdue, which she said are more than two years outstanding.

Owners of the properties for sale were first notified of the upcoming sale in July, the treasurer's office said.

For a complete list of the properties with delinquent taxes that will be listed for sale if owners do not make payment arrangements, click here.

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