Commercial Real Estate Market in Columbia, SC
Updated monthly: sale, lease, property records, location trend, and more… · Last update: October 31
476 active listings and 12,918 off-market properties in Columbia, SC. Commercial property asks $158/SF to buy and $18.50/SF/Yr to lease. Office vacancy runs 7.9%, the loosest of the segments tracked here.
Market Trends
Columbia, SC spans 295.5 square miles in Richland County, South Carolina. Figures below refresh monthly; last updated 31 October 2026.
Office
Office space in Columbia, SC asks $17.74/SF/Yr to lease; the median asking sale price is $160/SF. Vacancy runs 7.9% in 2025, down from 18.6% in 2020.
Retail
Retail space in Columbia, SC has a median asking sale price of $134/SF (based on 7 listings). Vacancy runs 5.7% in 2025, down from 6.6% in 2020. Nearly 1.3x the 2023 low of 4.4%.
Industrial
Industrial space in Columbia, SC has a median asking sale price of $127/SF. Vacancy runs 5.5% in 2025, up from 3.9% in 2022.
Multifamily
Multifamily space in Columbia, SC has a median asking sale price of $178/SF. Vacancy runs 11.3% across the South region in 2025, up from 8.5% in 2022.
Zoning & Land Use
Land Use Mix share of zoned land by category
- Civic 80.1%
- Residential 4.5%
- Planned_development 4.4%
- Mixed use 4%
- Open space 3.3%
- Industrial 2.8%
- Commercial 0.9%
Largest Zones share of zoned land by district
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Market overview
Demographics & Economy
Columbia, SC has 344,350 residents in 156,960 households. Density runs 1,165 people per square mile. Median household income here is $58,860 and median gross rent $1,232 a month.
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Nearby Markets
| Market | Median Asking Price, $/SF | Median Asking Rent, $/SF/Yr |
|---|---|---|
| West Columbia | $197 | $15.00 |
| Cayce | $123 | $13.00 |
Commercial property in Columbia, SC asks $158/SF. The 2 bordering markets run from $123/SF in Cayce to $197/SF in West Columbia, and the city sits in line with their $160/SF median.
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Methodology & data sources
- Asking prices and medians
- There are 181 active for-sale and 295 active for-lease listings in Columbia, SC. The medians are based on 49 of the for-sale and 53 of the for-lease listings, those that state a price or rent per square foot. These are ASKING figures from live listings, not closed-transaction prices, and a figure resting on fewer than 10 listings says so where it is quoted.
- Vacancy rates
- Published per-sector market series, taken at the metro level where one exists and otherwise at the Census-region level — a chart reading "in <region> region" is a regional number, not this city's.
- Zoning and land use
- The current municipal zoning release: 84,572 zoned acres across 26 districts. Shares are of zoned land, so parcels the release leaves unclassified are excluded from the mix.
- Refresh
- The monthly aggregates close at the end of the previous month, so 31 October 2026 — not today — is the honest last update.
- Known limitations
- multifamily vacancy is reported at South region level.
- Coverage
- Metrics below the 10-observation threshold fall back one geographic level. The geography used is named on each figure.
Compiled by the Realmo Data team · reviewed 31 October 2026 · How Realmo checks market page data · Report a data issue
