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Home appreciation in Columbia, SC

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Columbia, SC grew an average of 10.1% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+4.6%

2025 over 2024. South Carolina: +4.9%.

5-year, per year

+10.1%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. South Carolina: +10.7%.

10-year, per year

+7.1%

+98.3% in total since 2015. South Carolina: +8.0%.

How does your home compare?

Columbia, SC home prices rose 98.3% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +41.1% to +108.5%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Columbia, SC compares with South Carolina

South Carolina averaged +10.7% a year, putting Columbia, SC behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Columbia, SC ranks 99th out of 409 metros nationwide and 6th out of 8 in South Carolina.

Index, 2005 = 100

Columbia, SC and South Carolina, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearColumbia, SCSouth Carolina
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2102102
2005 Q3104104
2005 Q4105107
2006 Q1107108
2006 Q2107110
2006 Q3108112
2006 Q4111114
2007 Q1110115
2007 Q2112116
2007 Q3113116
2007 Q4114117
2008 Q1115118
2008 Q2114117
2008 Q3113115
2008 Q4114116
2009 Q1115117
2009 Q2114116
2009 Q3111112
2009 Q4111111
2010 Q1110109
2010 Q2109108
2010 Q3110109
2010 Q4108108
2011 Q1107106
2011 Q2104103
2011 Q3105104
2011 Q4106105
2012 Q1104103
2012 Q2103103
2012 Q3103103
2012 Q4103103
2013 Q1103103
2013 Q2103104
2013 Q3101104
2013 Q4101104
2014 Q1100104
2014 Q2102106
2014 Q3104107
2014 Q4104108
2015 Q1106110
2015 Q2106111
2015 Q3107112
2015 Q4108113
2016 Q1109114
2016 Q2108116
2016 Q3111119
2016 Q4111119
2017 Q1111120
2017 Q2113122
2017 Q3116125
2017 Q4116125
2018 Q1117128
2018 Q2118130
2018 Q3120131
2018 Q4120132
2019 Q1122134
2019 Q2124137
2019 Q3126138
2019 Q4127140
2020 Q1127142
2020 Q2129143
2020 Q3132145
2020 Q4134148
2021 Q1137152
2021 Q2144160
2021 Q3152169
2021 Q4156177
2022 Q1163185
2022 Q2174197
2022 Q3180204
2022 Q4183206
2023 Q1181207
2023 Q2190213
2023 Q3194219
2023 Q4193221
2024 Q1195223
2024 Q2201229
2024 Q3205231
2024 Q4207233
2025 Q1206237
2025 Q2211239
2025 Q3213242
2025 Q4215243
2026 Q1218245
2026 Q2219248

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +7.1% a year over ten years, +98.3% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2008, fell 10.6% to its 2013 low, and regained the 2008 level in 2018.

The strongest year was 2022 at +18.8%, and the weakest was 2011 at -3.7%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +4.6%, against +4.9% for the state.

ZIP codes in Columbia, SC

Over the ten years to 2025, the 31 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +41.1% in 29135 to +108.5% in 29061, while the metro as a whole rose 98.3%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 29061+108.5%
  2. 29063+106.9%
  3. 29210+105.7%
  4. 29033+105.6%
  5. 29203+102.6%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 29135+41.1%
  2. 29016+72.4%
  3. 29209+73.6%
  4. 29180+75.9%
  5. 29212+77.3%
ZIP codes in Columbia, SC ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
29061+7.1%+13.9%+7.6%+108.5%
29063+5.4%+10.3%+7.5%+106.9%
29210+5.0%+10.0%+7.5%+105.7%
29033+6.0%+10.3%+7.5%+105.6%
29203-1.2%+10.6%+7.3%+102.6%
29070+3.2%+11.2%+7.3%+102.2%
29160+1.5%+8.5%+7.3%+101.8%
29172+14.4%+11.1%+7.2%+101.2%
29054+17.2%+10.6%+7.2%+101.0%
29169+9.5%+11.1%+7.2%+100.1%
29170+5.9%+9.9%+7.2%+99.6%
29229+9.8%+10.4%+7.1%+98.2%
29036+4.6%+10.6%+7.1%+97.7%
29073+1.6%+9.6%+7.0%+96.2%
29130+3.9%+10.8%+7.0%+96.2%
29006-10.6%+8.6%+6.8%+93.9%
29201+4.4%+9.2%+6.7%+91.1%
29204+8.3%+10.0%+6.7%+90.6%
29053-1.0%+9.3%+6.6%+88.9%
29078+5.8%+9.6%+6.5%+88.5%
29223-1.5%+9.4%+6.4%+86.7%
29072+4.0%+9.5%+6.4%+86.5%
29045+0.6%+8.8%+6.4%+86.3%
29020+3.5%+9.9%+6.2%+82.2%
29205+2.4%+8.5%+6.1%+80.8%
29206+3.1%+8.0%+6.1%+80.8%
29212-5.3%+7.7%+5.9%+77.3%
29180+14.5%+8.0%+5.8%+75.9%
29209+1.0%+8.4%+5.7%+73.6%
29016+1.4%+9.3%+5.6%+72.4%
29135+7.0%+6.7%+3.5%+41.1%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Columbia, SC and South Carolina, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006105.3+5.3%107.6
2007109.3+3.8%112.4
2008110.9+1.4%113.1
2009109.7-1.0%110.4
2010106.2-3.2%105.4
2011102.3-3.7%101.1
2012100.5-1.8%100.0
201399.2-1.3%100.4
201499.9+0.7%102.7
2015103.7+3.8%107.9
2016106.8+2.9%113.3
2017110.7+3.7%119.4
2018115.7+4.5%126.3
2019121.4+4.9%132.9
2020126.9+4.5%140.1
2021143.3+13.0%159.6
2022170.3+18.8%192.1
2023184.3+8.2%208.3
2024196.6+6.6%221.9
2025205.7+4.6%232.8

The 8 measured metros in South Carolina

Measured metros in South Carolina ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC+5.9%+12.4%+8.8%
2Charleston-North Charleston, SC+4.6%+11.6%+9.0%
3Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC+4.6%+10.9%+7.9%
4Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC+5.2%+10.8%+8.5%
5Spartanburg, SC+3.8%+10.7%+8.2%
6Columbia, SC+4.6%+10.1%+7.1%
7Sumter, SC+6.9%+8.9%+6.3%
8Florence, SC+6.5%+8.4%+5.5%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the South Carolina row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2