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Selling your home in Kings Gate
Strategy before the sign: evidence-based pricing, careful preparation and a planned launch.
Selling your home in Kings Gate: show what newer homes can't
Selling your home in Kings Gate means making the case for a mature home in a central location. Your buyers may be comparing it with a smaller, newer house farther south or west. If they compare only price per square foot, your home looks expensive. If they compare location, mature landscaping, lot size and construction, it has a strong case.
Kings Gate also has an active resale market, so buyers have choices within the neighborhood. Homes vary in size, condition, lot, garage arrangement, pool, basement and renovation quality, and your listing has to make clear where yours stands.
Before any of that, we'll talk about why you're selling and when you need to be moved. The plan follows from your timeline.
Why Kings Gate sellers list with Shelby Cotton
I'm Shelby Cotton, a REALTOR® with eXp Realty, LLC in Lubbock. My background in architecture, civil design and subdivision planning helps me see what separates your home from the others, and show it. In a neighborhood this varied, the details decide the price.
My listing plans typically include professional photography, with video and drone shots where they help. In Kings Gate, drone shots show the mature trees, the lot and the home's position near Kingsgate Center and 82nd and Quaker. The plan also typically includes a property website, paid social media ads, email to other agents, mailers to neighbors and open houses.
You'll get clear feedback once showings start and a side-by-side look at what each offer would put in your pocket.
How I'll help you sell your Kings Gate home
- A planning conversation. Your timeline, your next move and what you need to net.
- Pricing with evidence. The sales most like yours in size, condition and features. See how I price.
- Targeted preparation. What an inspector will raise and what buyers see first.
- Media and story. Photography, video and drone where useful, a property website and a description that leads with location, lot and trees.
- A planned launch. Agent email and neighbor mailers before launch, ads from day one, open houses early. See how I reach buyers.
- Offers and closing. Offers compared by net proceeds, then support through closing at the title company.
Updating versus over-improving
The question Kings Gate sellers ask most is how much to update before listing. Kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, lighting and interior colors vary dramatically across the neighborhood, and it's tempting to remodel to compete. A full remodel right before selling rarely returns what it costs.
A targeted approach works better. Fix what an inspector will raise. Refresh what buyers see first, like paint and lighting. Leave the big design choices, such as a new kitchen, to the buyer who will live with them, and price the home to reflect that plan.
Systems, records and the right comparisons
Buyers will look closely at the roof, heating and cooling, sewer line, plumbing, electrical and windows on a home that's 35 to 50 years old. Records of what's been replaced, and when, answer those questions before they become repair requests.
Pricing needs the right comparisons. Two Kings Gate homes on nearby streets can differ in size, condition, lot, garage, pool, basement and renovation quality. I'll match your home to the sales it truly resembles, not only the closest ones. Grouped "Kings Gate-Raintree" figures you see online blend two neighborhoods and shouldn't set your price.
Sellers in neighboring Kings Park face the opposite problem, with too few sales to compare. In Kings Gate the challenge is choosing the right ones from many.
Getting a Kings Gate home ready for photos
Kings Gate homes sell on their setting as much as their rooms, so preparation starts outside. Trim the trees back from the roof, clean the gutters, edge the beds and refresh the mulch. Mature trees look their best when they frame the house rather than hide it.
If you have a pool, have it cleaned and the equipment serviced before photos. A sparkling pool reads as a feature. A cloudy one reads as a project. If you have a basement, make it bright, dry and clearly usable.
Inside, let the size of the rooms show. Clear surfaces, remove extra furniture and use lighting to brighten darker 1980s interiors. Show the rear-entry garage and the path to the kitchen, because buyers will ask how daily life works.
We'll schedule the photographer and drone for the light that suits your lot, so the first impression online is the strongest one.
Ready to sell in Kings Gate?
Start with what your Kings Gate home is worth, read the guide to selling in Lubbock, or tell me about your home. You can also call (806) 630-0455. Move wisely.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I remodel my Kings Gate home before selling?
Usually not fully. Fix what an inspector will raise and refresh what buyers see first. A full remodel right before selling rarely returns its cost.
How do I compete with newer homes when selling in Kings Gate?
Show buyers the value of location, mature landscaping, lot size and construction, so they compare the whole picture rather than price per square foot alone.
What records help when selling a Kings Gate home?
Dates and receipts for the roof, heating and cooling, sewer line, plumbing, electrical and windows, plus any renovation work.
Kings Gate
What selling your home looks like in Kings Gate
Mature trees, larger lots and a location that has become more central as Lubbock has grown.
- The homes
- Predominantly traditional brick homes from the late 1970s through the 1990s, most from the 1980s. Floor plans vary considerably. Many have rear-entry garages, substantial living areas and mature landscaping, and larger properties may have pools, basements or multiple living areas.
- Why people choose it
- Move-up buyers, relocating buyers who want mature surroundings, buyers wanting larger rooms and lots and mature trees, buyers who don't want to live on Lubbock's outer edge, and buyers comfortable evaluating an older home property by property.
- Schools people ask about
- Lubbock ISD. Buyers ask about Honey Elementary, Evans Middle School and Monterey High School. Verify by address with Lubbock ISD. It is sometimes confused with neighborhoods farther south in Lubbock-Cooper ISD.
- Getting around
- Southwest Lubbock between Quaker and Memphis Avenues, roughly 82nd to 98th Street. Locals say "around 82nd and Quaker, south toward 98th." Loop 289 is a short drive.
- Nearby
- Kingsgate Center at 82nd and Quaker, Charles A. Guy Park, and neighboring Lakeridge and Raintree. Shopping, restaurants and medical services all around.
- The trade-off
- Not cookie-cutter: homes differ in size, condition, lot, garage, pool, basement and renovation. Buyers compare them with smaller, newer homes farther south or west, so sellers have to show the value of location, lot, trees and construction, not only price per square foot.
The method
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