Mountain's Edge ranks high.

Washington, D.C. real estate research shop RCLCO ranks the 3,500-acre master-planned community as second in home sales in the nation for 2006. RCLCO includes in its criteria large-scale developments offering a wide range of housing prices and styles, a host of amenities and several non-residential land uses, like commercial and educational facilities.

Even though the real estate market is soft, master-planned communities tend to weather the storm rather well in these conditions. They have solid fundamentals. Well-located areas together with product, project and amenity programs that are carefully positioned to satisfy the needs, pocket books and tastes of the consumer. When you can do all that right, I guess you can't lose.