Sell your house fast in Pendleton, NY

One town, one Town Hall, a Lockport address

The state’s municipal reference list gives the Town of Pendleton one code, 293200, and no village codes, so there’s no second village government to sort out. Town Hall is at 6570 Campbell Boulevard and uses a Lockport, NY 14094 address. So a Lockport mailing address doesn’t mean the house is in the City or Town of Lockport.

The Town describes its own map simply: level or gently rolling ground, Tonawanda Creek along the southern boundary, Sawyer Creek crossing the west side and the Erie Canal running northeast through the town. Tonawanda Creek is also where Niagara County ends. Across it is Amherst, in Erie County, and a different set of courts and county offices.

For a Pendleton house, these are the offices that matter:

• Assessment: the Pendleton Assessor at Town Hall, (716) 625-8833 ext. 118. The Town suggests calling first to set a time.
• Town and county taxes: the Town Clerk, who is also the Tax Collector, ext. 112.
• Water and sewer: the Public Works Department, (716) 625-8033.
• Estates, deeds, foreclosures and unpaid taxes after April 1: Niagara County offices in Lockport.

Pendleton taxes and the half-value assessment

The Town and County bill

The Tax Collector’s 2026 notice set the calendar: bills usually go out the last week of December, and payment runs January 2 to March 31 at Town Hall. Paid by February 2, there’s no interest. After that, 1% is added through March 2, then another 1% for each month or part of a month, and the roll goes to the Niagara County Treasurer on April 1. The Town also changed its mailing address for tax payments to a P.O. box in Philadelphia, and asks anyone paying through online banking to update the payee address.

The Town’s own tax FAQ is blunt about late payments: under Real Property Tax Law §924 the collector has no discretion to waive the penalty, and most banks send their checks by metered mail, which counts as paid the day it arrives, not the day you set it up.

The school bill comes from Starpoint

The Town doesn’t collect school taxes. Most Pendleton parcels pay Starpoint Central: the County’s 2025–2026 report counts 3,174 Pendleton parcels in Starpoint, at about $26.06 per $1,000 of assessed value, and 79 in the Lockport City School District, at about $31.16 plus a library charge. Starpoint’s tax collector is at (716) 210-2313.

Why the assessment is about half the price

Pendleton’s state equalization rate was 70% in 2020 and 50% in 2025. In plain terms, the Town’s assessments sit at about half of what the state estimates full value to be, so the assessment on your bill isn’t a price.

If taxes are behind, a sale can clear them at closing. Once the roll goes to the County on April 1, the Treasurer’s Office in Lockport (716-439-7007) holds the balance, and the Treasurer runs the County’s tax foreclosure auctions.

How Pendleton grew, and the 2026 sewer pause

The Town’s own population page tracks the climb: 5,010 people in 1990, 6,050 in 2000 and 6,297 in 2010. The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 survey puts it at about 7,000. The Town describes itself as a mix of farmland and modern subdivisions, and the housing numbers back that up.

• A lot of it is new: the survey estimates about 390 of Pendleton’s roughly 2,770 housing units were built between 2010 and 2019, and about 730 in the years from 2000 on.
• And some of it is old: about 420 went up before 1940, and the 1960s added about 480 more. The median house dates to around 1978.
• Almost all single-family: close to nine in ten units are detached houses, and most heat with utility gas.

Growth is also why a 2026 sewer decision matters here, though not for house sales. Niagara County Sewer District No. 1 serves Pendleton along with Lockport, Wheatfield, Cambria, Lewiston and Niagara. As WKBW reported, after the storms of early August the District’s board voted on August 26, 2026 to stop approving, for six months and through February 26, 2027, any new project projected at over 2,500 gallons a day. Projects already approved, and smaller connections, aren’t affected, and an existing house changing owners isn’t a development at all.

Older farmhouse or newer colonial, we buy Pendleton houses as-is. Take what you want and leave the rest; the cleanout cost is built into our offer.

Pendleton sellers ask us

My address says Lockport. Is the house in Pendleton?

It might be. Pendleton’s own Town Hall has a Lockport 14094 address. If your town and county bill comes from the Pendleton Tax Collector, the house is in the Town of Pendleton.

What is the Town’s inspection when a house is sold?

The Town’s water billing notice calls it a mandatory water and sewer line inspection, required prior to closing, scheduled through Public Works at (716) 625-8033. The Town’s December 2024 fee schedule lists it at $50, and the notice says the fee goes on the final water bill.

Which school district bills my Pendleton house?

Most likely Starpoint Central. The County’s 2025–2026 report puts all but 79 of Pendleton’s taxable school parcels in Starpoint; the rest are in the Lockport City School District.

Does the 2026 sewer moratorium affect selling my house?

Not as reported. It pauses approvals for large new developments, and a house that’s already connected isn’t one.

I moved away. Can I still sell my Pendleton house?

Yes. We usually make the offer by phone.