How Texas Stacks up in Top Master-Planned Communities

29 January 2026

Texas homebuyers love master-planned communities so much that 20 of the 50 top-sellers were in the state in 2025.

The Houston region dominated the national ranking in particular, with Sunterra and Tamarron — both in Katy — landing in the top 10, according to data from real estate consultancy RCLCO. Houston’s suburbs had 10 master-planned communities land in the 50 top-selling MPCs in total last year. Developers Land Tejas and Starwood Land’s Sunterra notched the highest sales in the state with 1,024 last year. D.R. Horton’s Tamarron inked 974 home sales.

Builders competed with a rising supply of resale homes, and many buyers remained sidelined by elevated mortgage rates, according to the Houston Chronicle. Despite the broader trend, gains were posted in several developments across the Houston metro. Across the state as a whole, the only other state to come close to Texas’ tally of top-performing master-planned communities was Florida, with 16.

Sunterra’s 2,300 acres includes resort-style amenities that might serve as the extra incentive attracting new residents, such as a crystal lagoon that opened last year along a 2.7-acre white sand manmade beach, according to the outlet. Resident-only perks also include a pool and lazy river, splash pad and walking trails, all within zoning for Katy Independent School District and parts in Royal ISD.

Todd LaRue, a Texas-based managing director at RCLCO, told the outlet that he expects Houston’s master-planned communities to outperform the rest of the U.S. in 2026.

“It is unlikely to be dethroned as the ‘Top-Selling Metro Area’ for master-planned communities in the near future,” LaRue said.

Not to be outdone, Oxland Group’s Painted Tree development in McKinney was the top Dallas-Fort Worth metro MPC to land on the list, with 643 home sales. The development, 30 miles north of Dallas and west of I-75, includes three districts surrounding wooded lakes and parks. In Denton County, D.R. Horton’s Silverado development, at 2604 O’Connell Circle in Aubrey, sold 446 homes, according to the data.

Rounding out the Texas Triangle, the San Antonio community of Riverstone — another D.R. Horton development — sold 529 homes. Riverstone is near the Far West Side Alamo Ranch and Loop 1604 Hwy 151 corridor. Platform Ventures and Capitol Realty’s master-planned community of Santa Rita Ranch just north of Austin in Liberty Hill sold 483 homes, according to RCLCO.