Cities · South Carolina
We buy houses for cash in Columbia — get your offer in 24 hours
Mid-size market with active local cash buyers across most price tiers.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes a fair cash offer on your Columbia house — usually within 24 hours, often the same day. You review it. You pick the closing date. You close, or you walk. No fees either way.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes cash offers directly to homeowners — no fees, no commissions, and no obligation to accept. We are not a real-estate agent or broker; we buy houses for cash.
Selling a house in Columbia: what's different here
Columbia sits in Richland County, SC.
University of South Carolina and Fort Jackson anchor a deep rental market, keeping cash demand for tenant-occupied houses steady.
Older neighborhoods like Shandon and Rosewood carry early-1900s bungalows that renovators actively want.
How closings work in South Carolina
South Carolina requires an attorney to conduct the closing. A cash sale still closes on a normal two-to-three-week timeline.
Seller taxes and fees in South Carolina
South Carolina’s deed recording fee works out to $1.85 per $500 of the price (0.37%), customarily a seller cost.
If you're behind on the mortgage in South Carolina
South Carolina is a judicial-foreclosure state — the lender files suit and the case runs through the court to a judicial sale, which typically takes many months. More runway than trustee-sale states, but costs accrue throughout.
Situations we handle in Columbia
Property types we buy in Columbia
Columbia sellers — common questions
Ready to see what your Columbia house is worth in cash?
Lockwood Home Buyers makes cash offers directly to homeowners — no fees, no commissions, and no obligation to accept. We are not a real-estate agent or broker; we buy houses for cash.