- West Chester Borough
- Roughly 3,000 of the borough’s 7,200 homes went up before 1940, and you feel it the moment a wall comes open. Plaster, knob-and-tube, galvanized supply lines narrowed down to a straw. There is no side yard either, so every cabinet comes in the front door and every bag of debris leaves the same way. Borough jobs run longer and cost more than anything else around here, and this is the only part of West Chester where the historic board gets a say.
- West Goshen Township
- Over 20,000 people, which makes it bigger than the borough, and it is where we spend the most time. West Goshen went up fast in the sixties and seventies. If you own one of those houses you already know the list: the kitchen is a room of its own, three bedrooms share one hall bath, and the panel filled up years ago.
- East Goshen Township
- Runs a few years later than West Goshen, with bigger lots toward Paoli Pike. Same list otherwise, plus a basement somebody finished around 1985 that nobody has touched since.
- Westtown Township
- Eighties and nineties colonials on generous lots. The floor plans are already open, so the work is finishes rather than framing.
- East Bradford Township
- Cross the Brandywine and the ground starts to roll. Newer houses sit among stone farmhouses that predate all of them. Once you are off the borough edge you are usually on a private well and a septic field, and that decides whether you can add a bathroom.
- West Bradford Township
- Subdivisions from the nineties onward with working farmland still in between. A lot of full-height basements out here that nobody ever got around to finishing.
- West Whiteland Township
- The Exton end, and the most built up of the group. Townhouses and carriage homes next to nineties colonials. Kitchens and primary baths, rarely anything structural.
- Thornbury Township
- There are two Thornbury Townships, one in Chester County and one in Delaware County, and paperwork lands at the wrong one more often than it should. Big houses on big lots. Most of what we get asked for here is an addition or a full primary suite.
- Birmingham Township
- Battlefield land, preserved open space, stone houses, wells and septic. Worth saying plainly: this is not Chadds Ford Township across the county line, even though that one answered to the name Birmingham until 1996.
- Pocopson Township
- Old houses on acreage along the Brandywine. Nothing is plumb, so cabinets get scribed and trim gets matched. The labor line runs ahead of the material line.
- Willistown Township
- Horse farms at the north end, ordinary suburban streets down by Route 3. Tell us which one you are on and we know most of what we need to.