Cash offer on your Columbia house in any condition. We are the buyer, not an agent, so there are no commissions and no repairs.
Columbia is a slower market than the suburbs around it, and the numbers say so plainly: a median near $276,000 and about 40 days to contract, against 34 days out in Lexington. Forty days to contract is not forty days to money — add the buyer's financing and appraisal and you are often past ninety. For a house in good shape that is simply the cost of getting top dollar. For an inherited house sitting empty in North Columbia, or a rental you are done with, three months of carrying costs can eat the difference between listing and selling to us.
One useful thing about Richland County: the Register of Deeds and the Probate Court are in the same building, 2020 Hampton Street. Your deed gets recorded there and, if the owner has died, the estate is opened there too. That matters more than it sounds. The single most common reason a Columbia sale stalls is that nobody has opened the estate yet, so no one has the authority to sign a deed — and until that happens, no buyer of any kind, cash or financed, can close.
Richland County runs its delinquent tax sale each fall, and unlike some counties it does not publish a fixed month years ahead — the Treasurer sets the date and advertises it. If you are behind on Columbia property taxes, call the delinquent tax office on 803-576-2250 and get the actual date for this year before you do anything else. Once the property sells you are into a redemption period with penalties, and your options get much narrower and much more expensive.
We buy across Columbia — downtown, North Columbia, the Northwest side and out through Southeastern Columbia. A lot of what we look at here is former rental stock. Columbia is a university town with a deep rental market, which means a steady supply of landlords who have reached the end of their patience with a property. Tenant still in place, deferred maintenance, a roof that will not pass an appraisal: none of that stops us.
Median sale price $276,000 · 40 days to contract · trailing 3 months to September 2026, Redfin, retrieved 2026-09-05