Cash home buyers in Charleston, SC
We buy houses in Charleston, SC, from the peninsula out to Summerville and Moncks Corner.
Want to sell your house fast in Charleston, Mount Pleasant, North Charleston or Summerville? Our cash offer comes in writing and covers the house exactly as you leave it, termite damage and all. You choose when we close, from about seven days out with a clear title to as long as six months.
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Get your Charleston cash offer
Tell us where the house is and a little about its condition. A specialist will call you to talk it over.
Where we buy around Charleston
What holds a house back here depends on which side of the river it sits on.
We buy all over Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties, and we have bought houses in Charleston, Mount Pleasant, James Island, Johns Island, West Ashley, North Charleston and Summerville. Here is what we tend to run into in each part of the area.
Downtown Charleston and the peninsula
Charleston single houses, one room wide with a long side piazza, share the peninsula with 1910s and 1920s homes in Hampton Park Terrace and 1930s brick-veneer houses in Wagener Terrace. In the historic districts, exterior work visible from the street goes before the city's Board of Architectural Review, so a buyer planning a new roof may need approval first. The peninsula is in Charleston County, though the city also reaches into Berkeley County on Daniel Island.
West Ashley
The first neighborhoods west of the Ashley River went up after World War II, and the biggest wave of building came in the 1970s and 1980s. Houses from those years often still have older wiring, a tired HVAC system or a damp crawlspace. We buy in Avondale, Byrnes Downs, Windermere, Sherwood Forest and the rest of West Ashley, all of it in Charleston County.
James Island and Johns Island
James Island is divided among the Town of James Island, the City of Charleston and unincorporated Charleston County. About a third of Johns Island sits inside Charleston city limits, and the rest is county land where farms still sit near new development. We buy island houses that took on water in a storm, sit on a big lot or have gone years without an update.
Mount Pleasant
Across the Cooper River from downtown, Mount Pleasant runs from the Old Village, the town's oldest neighborhood, out to the subdivisions built as the town grew fast in the 1990s. Older houses near the harbor and the marsh take a beating from salt air and humidity. It is all Charleston County, and we buy dated cottages and newer houses alike.
North Charleston and Park Circle
North Charleston spreads across Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties, so check which one your house is in before an estate gets opened. Park Circle was laid out in 1912, and many of the modest houses around it were built for workers at the old Navy Yard. We buy those older homes, rentals with tenants in them and houses left vacant after the last tenant moved out.
Summerville
Known as the Flower Town in the Pines, Summerville is mostly in Dorchester County, with small pieces in Berkeley and Charleston counties. We buy older homes around the historic district and newer houses in subdivisions across town, including longtime rentals and houses left to the family.
Salt air, termites and high water
Why so many Lowcountry sales fall apart after the inspection.
Houses this close to the coast deal with salt air and humidity year after year. Crawlspaces hold moisture, wood under bathrooms and along the sills goes soft, and termites move in where the wood stays wet. Clemson's extension service reports Formosan subterranean termites in many areas of Charleston County.
That damage usually comes to light during the sale. A buyer with a mortgage will typically need a CL-100, the termite and moisture report South Carolina lenders ask for. If it turns up active termites or wet framing, the lender often wants repairs made before the loan closes, and the buyer may walk away or ask for a lower price.
Then there is the water. The City of Charleston points out that king tides are predictable, and a storm that arrives during one can make flooding much worse. If a house sits in a FEMA high-risk flood zone (the zones whose names start with A or V), a buyer with a federally backed loan has to carry flood insurance, and that premium adds to their monthly cost.
We buy with our own money, so none of that holds up our closing. Tell us what you know about past water, termite treatments or soft floors, and we will make our offer with all of it still there.
How a sale works in Charleston
Here is how a Lowcountry sale goes, start to finish.
A South Carolina attorney supervises every closing here. If the owner has passed away, their home county's probate court oversees the estate. For this area that is the Charleston County Probate Court downtown, the Berkeley County Probate Court in Moncks Corner or the Dorchester County Probate Court in St. George.
- Call us or fill in the form.
Reach us at (706) 705-7703 or use the form up top. Let us know who lives there and what you know needs work, from a soft floor to water that comes in during storms.
- We talk it through, then visit once.
A specialist goes over the house with you by phone. Most houses get a single walk-through, and if you are out of the area we can work from photos.
- Your offer comes to you in writing.
It accounts for the repairs, how old the roof and HVAC are, and what similar houses close by have sold for. If you pass on it, you owe us nothing.
- You choose the closing day.
The closing attorney checks the title and handles the payoff. With the title clear, closing can happen in about a week, and we can wait up to about six months if you need the time.
Charleston-area questions
What Lowcountry homeowners ask before they sell to us.
My buyer backed out after the CL-100 found termite damage. Will you still buy?
Yes. Send the report over if you have it. Since the money is ours, there is no bank holding out for a clean CL-100, and the termite and moisture repairs become our job after closing.
The house has flooded before, or it is in a flood zone. Do you buy those?
Yes. Tell us when water got in, how high it came and what was fixed afterward. With no loan involved, nobody requires us to buy a flood policy before we close, and our offer covers the house as it sits today.
My mother's house is in Summerville. Which county's probate court gets the estate?
It follows her home county, and Summerville touches three of them. Most of the town is in Dorchester County, whose probate court is in St. George, with smaller areas in Berkeley and Charleston counties. Her property tax bill shows the county, and the estate's attorney can confirm it.
Can you buy a downtown house in a historic district that needs exterior work?
Yes. The city's Board of Architectural Review looks over exterior changes in the historic districts that can be seen from the street, which can slow down a buyer with plans to fix it up. We handle that review after we own the house, and you sell with the work undone.
I got orders and have to leave Goose Creek soon. Can you close before I go?
Often, yes. Once the title checks out clean, we can close in about a week, and we can also wait until after you report if that suits you better. If you have already left, ask the closing attorney how to sign the papers from your new duty station.
Towns around Charleston
We also buy in Hanahan, Goose Creek, Ladson, Moncks Corner and the rest of the Lowcountry.
Three counties meet north of Charleston, and several towns cross county lines. We have bought houses in each of these towns, plus Ravenel, Edisto Island, Cottageville and Walterboro, and the county decides which probate court handles an estate.
Hanahan
Hanahan is a mostly residential city in Berkeley County, bordered by North Charleston on the west and south, with the Goose Creek Reservoir in the middle of town. Estates here go through the Berkeley County Probate Court in Moncks Corner. We buy rentals, inherited homes and fixer-uppers alike.
Goose Creek
Goose Creek was established as a city in 1961 and sits in southern Berkeley County, so estates go to the probate court in Moncks Corner. Most of Naval Support Activity Charleston is inside the city limits.
Ladson
Ladson is an unincorporated community that spreads across Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties, and Summerville and North Charleston have annexed parts of it over the years. Check the property tax bill to see which county a Ladson house is in.
Moncks Corner
Moncks Corner is the Berkeley County seat, just south of Lake Moultrie, and home to the county courthouse and the Berkeley County Probate Court. We buy houses in town and out in the county, including houses sitting on a few acres.
Ravenel, Edisto Island, Cottageville and Walterboro
Ravenel is in Charleston County, and so is most of Edisto Island. The island's southern tip, including Edisto Beach, falls in Colleton County, along with Cottageville and Walterboro, the Colleton County seat. Estates on that side of the line go through the Colleton County Probate Court.
Elsewhere in South Carolina
Have a house in another part of the state?
We buy in the Midlands, the Upstate, along the Grand Strand and in the small towns between. Our South Carolina page covers the whole state, or scroll back up and send us the address.
Charleston, SC
Get a written offer on your Lowcountry house, termites and all.
Call or text and tell us about the house. If our number works for you, you choose the day we close.