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Pennsylvania's Act 52 made wholesaling broker work statewide on January 4, 2025. Philadelphia was already there: the city runs its own Residential Property Wholesaler License (Philadelphia Code Ch. 9-5200), and holding the state license does not excuse you from the city one.
Philadelphia requires its own Residential Property Wholesaler License (Philadelphia Code Ch. 9-5200) — separate from, and in addition to, the Pennsylvania state license under Act 52. Application: $200 application fee (kept by the city even if the application is denied), insurance as the agency requires, disclosure of all Pennsylvania entities the applicant holds equity in, and a criminal-history search: no license if convicted within the past 6 years of fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust, deceit, or an Ethics Law violation. License valid 1 year.
An agreement signed by an unlicensed wholesaler at the time of solicitation is rescindable at any time before title transfer, at the homeowner's sole option (§ 9-5206). Other violations are a Class III offense under § 1-109. An unlicensed agreement is not just a fine risk — it is a deal the homeowner can unwind at will, at any point before title moves.
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Application checklist, the $200 fee, the entity-disclosure and criminal-history bars, and the § 9-5206 rescission warning — rendered from the same checked dataset.
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