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NEW-HOME MARKET №42 IN THE U.S. · COLUMBIA, SC

The top home builders in Columbia

Ranked by homes actually closed in 2025 — not ad spend, not sign count. The figures below are from Zonda’s Builder Online Local Leaders list, the industry’s annual census of the 50 largest new-home markets.

98.5%of Columbia’s 2025 new-home closings came from just ten builders — 3,565 homes.

Source: Builder Online, 2026 Local Leaders — Columbia, SC

THE TOP FIVE, BY 2025 CLOSINGS

Market share is each builder’s slice of every new home closed in the metro that year.

  1. 1.Clayton Properties Grouprule on file →
    850 closings · 23.5%
  2. 2.Stanley Martin Homes
    610 closings · 16.8%
  3. 3.McGuinn Homes
    466 closings · 12.9%
  4. 4.D.R. Hortonrule on file →
    365 closings · 10.1%
  5. 5.Lennar Corp.rule on file →
    362 closings · 10%
THE REST OF THE TOP TEN
  1. 6.United Homes Group
  2. 7.PulteGroup
  3. 8.Executive Construction Homes
  4. 9.NVR
  5. 10.Haven Homes
Closings and shares for all ten — Zonda’s full table for Columbia
WHY THIS NUMBER MATTERS TO AN AGENT

When most of a market’s new homes come from a handful of builders, a handful of written policies decides who gets paid. Each builder sets its own rule for how a buyer’s agent must register a client — some at the first visit, some before the first online inquiry — and the rules differ builder to builder, community to community. Miss one and you can lose the commission on a deal you did the work on.

NewBuilt keeps the registration rules for national, regional, and local builders — 3 of the ten above — each cited to the builder’s own page, so the answer you act on is one you can check. If it doesn’t cover a builder yet, it tells you.

Builder policies vary by community and change — always confirm current terms with the builder.

OTHER MARKETS

Closings, market shares, and market rankings are 2025 figures from Builder Online’s (Zonda) 2026 Local Leaders list, retrieved 2026-09-03 the full 50-market index is here. NewBuilt is not affiliated with Zonda or with any builder named above.