We are cash home buyers. A cash offer on your Columbia house in any condition. We are the buyer, not an agent, so there are no commissions and no repairs.
If you need to be out of a Columbia house on a date rather than eventually, the honest arithmetic matters more than the headline price. Columbia runs about 40 days to contract at a median near $276,000 — and 40 days to contract is not 40 days to money. Add the buyer's mortgage, the appraisal and the repair addendum and you are ninety days out, sometimes more. Fast and top dollar are different products. We sell the first one, and we will tell you plainly when the second is the better choice for you.
We work out of 1310 Harden Street, in the Harden Street corridor near Gervais, which puts us a few minutes from the Richland County Administration Building at 2020 Hampton Street where both the Register of Deeds and the Probate Court sit. That proximity is genuinely useful when a sale depends on someone physically getting to a counter. Most of the delay in a fast Columbia sale is not the buyer — it is a title problem nobody has looked at yet, and those get solved at Hampton Street.
Speed has a specific enemy in Richland County: the delinquent tax sale, held each fall on a date the Treasurer sets rather than a fixed month. Ring 803-576-2250 and get this year's date before you plan around anything. If that date is inside ninety days, a conventional listing is not a realistic route and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you a listing agreement rather than a solution.
We buy right across Columbia — downtown, North Columbia, the Northwest side, Southeastern Columbia and the streets around Harden and Gervais. Speed is usually wanted for one of four reasons here: a job that starts somewhere else next month, a divorce that needs the asset converted, a rental that has stopped being worth the trouble, or an estate the family wants closed. All four are normal for us and none of them require the house to be in good condition.
Median sale price $276,000 · 40 days to contract · trailing 3 months to September 2026, Redfin, retrieved 2026-09-05
1310 Harden St, Columbia, SC 29204