RCLCO reveals top-selling master-planned communities of 2023

Real estate consulting firm RCLCO has released the results of their semi-annual survey of the top-selling master-planned communities (MPCs) of 2023. RCLCO’s ranking is based on total new home sales as reported by each individual community, and establishes updated rankings from the mid-year report.

Key takeaways from this year’s results include:

New home sales among the 50 top-selling master-planned communities increased by nearly 14 percent in 2023 compared with the sales of 2022’s top-50 MPCs. With a lack of resale home inventory, and builders willing to offer incentives, new homes in MPCs have remained attractive to homebuyers despite elevated interest rates throughout the year, and strong but gradually slowing employment growth. Although up year-over-year, sales in second half 2023 were about 15 percent lower for the year-end top