We buy houses in Charleston, SC.
A private cash buyer for houses in Charleston County. See the offer math before you say who you are.
Property exteriorStreet address, then the city. The ZIP makes the value estimate exact.
How this works in Charleston.
We are a private buyer, not a brokerage. We buy houses for cash or with owner financing and can close on either at your schedule. An offer starts from the county's public record and the four condition questions in the form above, the same math behind every offer regardless of city. Filling in the form does not list the property anywhere. A person reads it and reaches out.
South Carolina requires a judge to approve every foreclosure sale. A lender has to sue and win a judgment before a house can be sold, unlike the power-of-sale process next door in Georgia and Tennessee.
Selling in Charleston County: what to know.
Sourced facts, not a sales pitch. Every line below links to the county or state office that publishes it.
- County
- Charleston County, South Carolina
- Deed recording
- Charleston County Register of DeedsSource: Charleston County Register of Deeds
- Property assessor
- Charleston County Assessor's OfficeSource: Charleston County Assessor's Office
- Probate court
- Charleston County Probate CourtSource: Charleston County Probate Court
- Transfer tax
- A deed recording fee of $3.70 per $1,000 of value ($1.30 state plus 55 cents county, per $500). The grantor is primarily liable, and the grantee is secondarily liable if it goes unpaid.Source: S.C. Code Ann. § 12-24-10, SC Dept. of Revenue: Deed Recording Fee
- Foreclosure
- Judicial only. South Carolina has no power-of-sale foreclosure at all: a lender must sue and get a court judgment establishing the debt before the property can be sold.Source: S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-630
- Seller disclosure
- Required. A seller must give the buyer a signed Residential Property Condition Disclosure Statement before a contract is formed.Source: S.C. Code Ann. §§ 27-50-10 et seq.
Inherited or in probate.
A house that passed through inheritance in Charleston County usually has to clear probate before a sale can close, unless it was already held in a trust or passed by survivorship. Probate here is handled by Charleston County Probate Court. We work with executors, administrators and heirs at any stage of that process.
Nothing on this page is legal or tax advice. An estate attorney is the right call for anything specific to a filing.
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