A written cash offer within 24 hours. No repairs, no cleaning, no agent commissions — and you choose the closing date.
Step 1 of 5
No obligation, no fees, no repairs. We respond the same day.
You’ll talk to Trevor McAmis, Owner & Acquisitions Lead
(313) 710-6129
Takes about two minutes. Or call (313) 710-6129 — we answer.
The address is enough to start in Columbus. If you know the condition, the roof age or what is owed, that gets us to a firmer number faster.
A real number on paper, with the comparable sales and the repair estimate it came from. No obligation and nothing to sign.
Seven days if you need it, ninety if you do not. We buy as-is, cover standard closing costs, and take the house with whatever is still in it.
ReStar Acquisitions is run by Trevor McAmis and his family. Every offer on this site is underwritten by a person who will tell you when listing beats selling to us. Call (313) 710-6129 and you get one of us.
From our own transaction records and HUD data for Columbus ZIP codes. Updated 2026-10-12.
Across the Columbus properties in our records, the median time on market is 28 days. A cash sale skips that window entirely — there is no listing period, no showings, and no financing contingency that can collapse at day 30.
HUD sets Fair Market Rent for a 3-bedroom in Columbus at $1,535/month. That number is why we can pay cash here: many of these homes work as long-term rentals for us, so we are not dependent on reselling quickly to make the numbers work.
Delinquent taxes get paid from the proceeds. If the county has already started forfeiture there is a hard deadline involved, so tell us early and we will check where it actually stands.
A vacant house through one heating season is how most of the water damage in this region happens. Burst supply lines are routine for us and disqualifying for a mortgage buyer.
That is 8 ZIP codes across Columbus — including 43203, 43204, 43206 and 43211. Not listed? We still look at it — Ohio deals outside these ZIPs come through regularly.
Here are 273 recorded Columbus sales from our comparable-sales database. Every number below is what someone actually paid — not an estimate, and not our opinion of your house.
Quartiles put Columbus at $95,000 and $199,000. That gap, not the median, is what a walkthrough is for.
| Home size | Median sale price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2-bedroom | $99,750 | 84 |
| 3-bedroom | $157,000 | 154 |
| 4-bedroom | $115,000 | 25 |
Recorded sales in our own comparable-sales database for these ZIP codes. Sale prices reflect what buyers paid for homes in their condition at the time — they are not an appraisal of your property and not an offer.
We underwrite by ZIP, not by city. Here is what each one looks like in our data:
| ZIP | Median sale | Per sq ft | Sales | HUD 3BR rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43203 | $162,000 | $146 | 10 | $1,370 |
| 43204 | $114,750 | $105 | 40 | $1,560 |
| 43206 | $199,000 | $122 | 27 | $1,740 |
| 43211 | $105,450 | $115 | 76 | $1,410 |
| 43219 | $129,780 | $135 | 21 | $1,700 |
| 43223 | $104,062 | $88 | 32 | $1,510 |
| 43224 | $150,000 | $135 | 33 | $1,430 |
| 43228 | $202,500 | $177 | 34 | $1,620 |
Look at the gap between 43228 ($202,500) and 43223 ($104,062). Same city, roughly 95% apart. Anyone quoting you a citywide price per square foot is not looking at your block.
Sale figures are medians of recorded sales in our comparable-sales database; rent is HUD Fair Market Rent for that ZIP. A dash means we do not hold enough data for that ZIP to publish a number we would stand behind.
Whole-market figures for every Columbus ZIP code we buy in, from the ReStar housing database · August 2026. These are not our numbers — they cover every sale in the ZIP, not just ours.
The median Columbus listing takes 48 days to go under contract, and that is only the clock until it goes under contract — a financed buyer then needs another 30 to 45 days to close, assuming their loan holds.
Home values across these ZIP codes are 2.1% lower than a year ago. On a vacant or inherited property that is a second cost running alongside taxes, insurance and utilities while you decide.
There are +38.2% more homes on the market than a year ago, which means a listing competes with more of them.
Median rent of $1,301 against a median sale price of $219,405 is a gross yield near 7.1%. That is the honest reason we can pay cash in Columbus: many of these houses work as rentals for us, so we are not dependent on reselling quickly.
| ZIP | Median sale | Per sq ft | Days on market | Listed now | Median rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43203 | $264,885 | $169 | 48 days | 53 | $1,248 |
| 43204 | $213,907 | $162 | 49 days | 132 | $1,392 |
| 43206 | $319,662 | $193 | 55 days | 139 | $1,729 |
| 43211 | $174,924 | $152 | 50 days | 112 | $1,289 |
| 43219 | $197,964 | $163 | 56 days | 62 | $1,314 |
| 43223 | $184,920 | $144 | 43 days | 82 | $1,373 |
| 43224 | $224,903 | $177 | 40 days | 68 | $1,168 |
| 43228 | $282,378 | $186 | 41 days | 81 | $1,273 |
Source: ReStar (restar.io) housing database, built from public records and MLS-derived feeds. A dash means that ZIP has no published figure for that measure this month.
Where a market sits relative to its county tells you which buyers can afford it and how long they take to commit. Here is Franklin County against the Columbus ZIP codes specifically.
| Franklin County | Columbus ZIPs | |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $327,903 | $219,405 |
| Price per sq ft | $197 | $166 |
| Days on market | 43 days | 48 days |
| Median rent | $1,504/mo | $1,301/mo |
| Median household income | $75,176 | — |
The Columbus ZIP codes we buy in run 33% below the Franklin County median of $327,903. That gap is the reason a countywide price per square foot is useless for pricing your house, and it is why our offers are underwritten by ZIP.
Time on market differs too: a median of 48 days in the Columbus ZIP codes against 43 days across Franklin County.
County-wide, the median sale price is -2.1% against a year ago.
County figures from the ReStar housing database; the Columbus column is the median across the ZIP codes listed above. Income is the most recent Census estimate.
The honest version of this page starts with a gap. The eight Columbus ZIP codes we buy in show a median sale around $219,000. The median of our own recorded purchases in those same ZIP codes is $120,000, and the typical one was built in 1948.
We are not buying the median Columbus house. We buy the bottom half of these ZIP codes - the Hilltop, Linden and near-east pre-war stock where knob-and-tube, a failed sewer lateral or a roof past saving takes the house out of reach of an FHA buyer. If your house is in that condition, the retail comps on Zillow are not your comps, and any cash buyer who quotes them at you is setting up a renegotiation later.
Franklin County inventory is up roughly 38% on a year ago, the sharpest increase anywhere in our footprint. More listings means a longer wait and more price reductions for anything that needs work, because the buyers who can finance repairs have more choices than they had last spring.
Ohio adds two specifics worth knowing before you pick a buyer: several municipalities here run point-of-sale inspections with funds escrowed at closing until violations are fixed, and the county treasurer's delinquent tax certificate sales put a hard date on some files. We deal with both routinely. Tell us early and we will check where yours actually stands.
We buy across Columbus, including these. We do not hold a mapped boundary for them, so rather than estimate a median we show the ZIP each one sits in — and the per-ZIP medians are in the table further up this page.
Neighborhood boundaries from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Sale figures are medians of recorded sales in our own comparable-sales database for those boundaries — they describe the area, not your house, and they are not an offer.
Every legitimate cash offer is the same four-line calculation. Here it is run on the median Columbus sale price, so you can see the shape of it before anyone calls you.
| After-repair value — what it sells for once renovated | $120,000 |
| − Repairs to get it there | −$14,500 |
| − Holding, closing and resale costs | −$12,000 |
| − The buyer's margin | −$14,500 |
| = Illustrative cash offer | $79,000 |
This is an illustration, not an offer on your house. Your repair number is the line that moves most. A house that only needs cosmetics lands well above this; one with structural or mechanical work lands below. Ask any buyer to show you their four lines.
If your house is in good condition, this is also the calculation that tells you to list it instead. We will say so. The full breakdown of how the offer is built covers where the line falls.
Run on the median Columbus sale price of $120,000 from our own recorded-sales data, with the Ohio transfer tax at its statutory rate. This is the listing route; the right-hand column is what a cash sale removes.
| Cost | On a $120,000 sale | Selling to us |
|---|---|---|
| Agent commission, both sides (about 5.5%) | $6,600 | None |
| $1 per $1,000 state conveyance fee plus a permissive county fee | $480 | We pay it |
| Owner's title policy and settlement fees | about $2,000 | We cover the standard ones |
| Buyer concessions and post-inspection credits (about 1%) | $1,200 | None — there is no inspection contingency |
| Pre-listing repairs, cleaning and staging (about 1%) | $1,200 | None — we buy as-is |
| Total cost to sell | $11,480, or 9.6% of the sale price | $0 |
Every closing statement follows the same formula:
Net proceeds = sale price − mortgage payoff − closing costs − commissions − repairs and concessions
On the median Columbus sale with an illustrative $54,000 still owed, listing nets roughly $54,520 after the $11,480 of costs above. A cash offer starts below the retail price but carries none of those five deductions, which is why the two routes land closer together than the headline numbers suggest — and why, on a house in good condition that can wait 60 to 90 days, listing still usually wins.
Illustrative arithmetic on this market's median, not a quote on your property. Commission is customary rather than fixed and is negotiable; your payoff, liens and tax proration are specific to your file. See the full cash offer versus listing comparison to run it on your own numbers, or what seller closing costs actually cover.
Ohio closings go through a title agency, and several municipalities here require a point-of-sale inspection with funds escrowed at closing until violations are corrected. County treasurers also run delinquent tax certificate sales, which puts a hard clock on some properties.
On our side the sequence is the same every time: title search, payoff figures ordered on any existing mortgage, liens and municipal balances identified, then funds and deed recorded. Nothing about a cash sale skips title work — what it skips is the lender, the appraisal and the financing contingency, which is where most retail contracts on Columbus houses actually die.
General information about how these transactions typically proceed, not legal or tax advice. Your closing agent or attorney is the authority on your specific file.
Every row below is a statute rather than our opinion, and each one links to the primary source so you can check it yourself. These are also the items that most often delay a closing in Columbus.
| Seller disclosure required | O.R.C. § 5302.30 — read the statute |
| Transfer or excise tax | $1 per $1,000 state conveyance fee plus a permissive county fee |
| Rate used in the costs below | 0.4% |
| Who pays it | Seller |
| Statutory authority | O.R.C. § 319.54(G)(3); O.R.C. § 322.02 — source |
| Who conducts the closing | title agency |
| Attorney required at closing | No |
Ohio requires the Residential Property Disclosure Form on most one-to-four unit sales, delivered before you accept an offer. Estates, trusts and sheriff's sales are exempt. If the form arrives late the buyer gets a rescission right, so it is worth getting right the first time.
Counties may add up to $3 per $1,000 on top of the $1 state fee, so the real total runs $1 to $4 per $1,000 depending on where the property sits. The figure used on this page is the $4 per $1,000 top of that range; your county auditor publishes the exact one.
Ohio closings are conducted by a title agency. No attorney is required, and the title agency is the party that clears liens and records the deed.
Ohio income tax applies to gain above the federal exclusion, and some municipalities tax it as well. Federally, the primary-residence exclusion shelters up to $250,000 of gain if you are single and $500,000 if you are married filing jointly, provided you owned and lived in the house for two of the last five years — see IRS Topic 701. An inherited property takes a stepped-up basis at the date of death, which usually means little or no taxable gain if you sell soon after.
General information about Ohio practice, current as of 2026-10-12. It is not legal or tax advice, and rates set at county or municipal level vary within the state. Your closing agent, attorney or CPA is the authority on your file.
| Listing with an agent | Our cash offer | |
|---|---|---|
| Agent commission | About 6% of the sale price | None |
| Repairs before closing | Buyer and appraiser both have a say | None — we buy as-is |
| Cleaning and showings | Open houses and strangers in the house | Neither |
| Time to close | 28 days on market, then another 30–45 to close | 7–14 days once title is clear |
| Financing falls through | The most common reason a sale collapses | No lender involved |
| Closing costs | Customarily paid by the seller | We cover the standard ones |
| Certainty of the number | Offers can be renegotiated after inspection | The written number is the number |
The listing timeline is the median days on market for Columbus in our own records, plus a typical financed closing. Commission is the customary 6% and varies by agreement.
If you accept an offer, you have three days after signing to walk away for any reason at all, with nothing owed and no explanation needed. We would rather lose a deal than have someone feel cornered into one.
If the house is in good shape and you are not in a hurry, listing it will almost always net you more than we can offer. That is not us being modest — we buy at a discount because we take on the repairs, the carrying costs and the risk.
We will tell you when that is your situation. It is a faster conversation for both of us than pretending otherwise.
Most people who reach out are not shopping for the highest number — they are solving something with a deadline attached. These pages cover what changes in each case:
A sale date does not have to mean a foreclosure on your record.
We buy through probate and can wait for the letters.
A clean date and a clean split of the proceeds.
Occupied is fine. You do not have to remove anyone first.
These get paid out of the proceeds at closing.
Fire, water, structural — we price it, you do not repair it.
We buy across Ohio, not just Columbus. Each of these has its own sale prices, ZIP breakdown and rent data published the same way:
Yes. Frozen and burst pipes are one of the most common things we see, and the resulting water damage is exactly what removes retail buyers from the pool.
Typically 7-14 days once title is clear, because there is no lender underwriting. For comparison, the median Columbus listing in our records sits 28 days before it is even under contract, and closing runs another 30-45 days after that.
Delinquent taxes get paid from the sale proceeds. If the county has already begun forfeiture there is a deadline involved, so tell us early and we will check where it actually stands.
$1 per $1,000 state conveyance fee plus a permissive county fee — about 0.4% of the price. Seller pays it under O.R.C. § 319.54(G)(3); O.R.C. § 322.02. Counties may add up to $3 per $1,000 on top of the $1 state fee, so the real total runs $1 to $4 per $1,000 depending on where the property sits. The figure used on this page is the $4 per $1,000 top of that range; your county auditor publishes the exact one. On a cash sale to us it comes out of our side of the settlement statement, not yours.
No. Ohio closings are conducted by a title agency. No attorney is required, and the title agency is the party that clears liens and records the deed.
Ohio requires the Residential Property Disclosure Form on most one-to-four unit sales, delivered before you accept an offer. Estates, trusts and sheriff's sales are exempt. If the form arrives late the buyer gets a rescission right, so it is worth getting right the first time. The citation is O.R.C. § 5302.30. Selling as-is does not remove the obligation — it changes who pays for the repair, not whether you have to mention it.
On the median Columbus sale price of $120,000 in our recorded-sales data, the listing route runs roughly $11,480 once you add agent commission, transfer tax, title and settlement fees, buyer concessions and pre-listing repairs — around 10% of the sale price. A cash sale to us carries none of those five line items.
There is no fixed percentage, and any buyer quoting one before seeing the property is guessing. The offer is after-repair value, minus repairs, minus holding and resale costs, minus the buyer's margin. Repairs is the line that moves most: a house needing only cosmetics lands far higher than one needing a roof and mechanicals. Ask any buyer to walk you through all four lines on your specific property.
Sometimes, through a short sale, but that needs your lender's written approval and takes months rather than days. We will tell you on the first call if that is what you are looking at, rather than let you find out two weeks in.
Yes. We buy in any condition — no repairs, no cleaning, no staging — and you can leave behind anything you do not want. As-is changes who pays for the work, not what you are required to disclose about it.
That the purchase is funded without a mortgage, so there is no lender, no appraisal and no financing contingency. That is the whole of the advantage: financing falling through is the most common reason a residential sale collapses, and it cannot happen on a cash purchase.
Check it against the recorded sales published on this page and against the four-line calculation above it. We show you the comps the number came from. If listing would net you more, we will say so — that conversation is faster for both of us than the alternative.
None. There is no agent commission, no listing fee, and we cover standard closing costs. The number on the offer is what you net, minus any existing mortgage payoff or liens.
No. The offer is written, free, and yours to walk away from. We would rather you compare it against a listing than feel pushed into it.
Send the address and we will come back within a day with a written number and the comps it came from. If listing would net you more, we will tell you that instead.
See every Ohio market we buy in, or read how the offer is calculated. Selling because of foreclosure, probate, divorce or a problem tenant? Those pages cover what changes.
Step 1 of 5
No obligation, no fees, no repairs. We respond the same day.
You’ll talk to Trevor McAmis, Owner & Acquisitions Lead
(313) 710-6129
Takes about two minutes. Or call (313) 710-6129 — we answer.
