Selling in Celina? Price it from the street up.

Your biggest competitor in Celina is a builder's quick move-in home with incentives attached, and typical values fell about 8.9% in the year to September 2026 (Zillow). Price against recent resales in your own community, then show buyers what a new build does not include: a finished backyard, fencing, window coverings, drainage that has already proven itself through a few storms. From my construction years, a pre-listing inspection that clears the roof, foundation drainage and HVAC is the cheapest way to beat a new build, because it gives buyers the certainty they would otherwise pay a builder for.

For tax year 2025, a Celina home in Collin County and Celina ISD paid about 2.02% combined (city 0.5764, Celina ISD 1.2089, Collin County 0.1493, Collin College 0.0812 per $100), and the Denton County side ran about 1.97%. On a $512,000 home at 2.02% that is about $10,300 a year, or roughly $860 a month, before exemptions; the $140,000 school homestead exemption brings a typical owner-occupied bill to about $8,500 a year (about $710 a month). Light Farms sits in Collin County MUD No. 1, which added 0.89 per $100 in 2025 (about $4,560 a year more on that same home), and Celina lists 31 PIDs, such as Ten Mile Creek, where a 60-foot lot's 2026-27 installment is $4,796.92. For 2026 the city lowered its rate to 0.571677 and Celina ISD set 1.2088.