The master planned community is outpacing the market with technology, amenities, safety, home choices and more
Submitted by Paul Suter
Sterling Ranch, CO (March 2025) – Sterling Ranch, a 21st century master-planned community providing residents with an innovative and beautiful place to call home, is pleased to announce that it has been ranked as one of the Top 50 Master Planned Communities in the nation and number one in Colorado for 2024, based on new home sales according to two independent national studies.
- John Burns Real Estate Consulting, LLC (www.realestateconsulting.com) places Sterling Ranch at number 47 in the nation and first in Colorado
- RCLCO (www.rclco.com) places Sterling Ranch at number 50 in the nation and first in Colorado.
During the past year, homebuilders in Sterling Ranch recorded 382 home sales, outpacing all other master planned communities in the entire Colorado market.
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Chelsea Scott, Senior Consulting Manager with John Burns Real Estate, had this to say:
“Sterling Ranch has once again made the John Burns Research and Consulting Top 50 Master-Planned Communities (MPC) list out of 500+ surveyed master plans across the county. This list is a testament to Sterling Ranch’s ability to meet its vision as a connected community committed to building sustainable homes with state-of-the-art water resource management and energy efficiency. Sterling Ranch benefits from its beautiful natural landscape and outdoor lifestyle. Congratulations to the management team that runs this community.”
Karl Pischke, Principal with RCLCO, had this to say:
“The top-selling community of Colorado, Sterling Ranch, became the 47th best-selling master-planned community in the country in 2024. RCLCO’s Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities Report is a publication released by RCLCO Real Estate Consultants twice each year to track the top performing communities in the country and to identify development best practices from the MPCs that have pioneered their way into the top ranks. Sterling Ranch is an excellent example of the success that a project can achieve when community and thoughtful place-making are the primary focuses.”
“This is the fifth consecutive year that we’ve led the Denver metro area market in home sales, something we attribute to our proximity to the ‘quality-of-life’ vision we established for Sterling Ranch more than a decade ago,” said Brock Smethills, President of the Sterling Ranch Development Company. “We’re providing our residents with adjacency to two State Parks, a high-quality sustainable water system, hiking trails and a healthy lifestyle in an idyllic Colorado setting, with a vast array of home designs and price points to choose from. The people who live in Sterling Ranch also benefit from the community’s incredible partnerships with our technology providers. Every home that is built in Sterling Ranch comes standard with a technology package that includes among other features, an Android tablet that allows our homeowners to monitor their energy and water use in real time, a low voltage system for security and home automation, dual indoor and outdoor water meters, and solar systems. In addition, each home has a dedicated fiber optic line that provides standard internet speeds of one gig with options to upgrade to 8 gigs of internet speed.. Sterling Ranch is truly unique and it’s a tremendous honor to see so many homebuyers sharing in our vision.”
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Smethills continued: “Our national ranking is also impressive considering the size, scope and location of most of the master planned communities in the Top 50. A majority are located on the two coasts or in states that have a shorter entitlement process and much more available land for development. Sterling Ranch is in a ‘flyover’ state and is comprised of land that was carefully assembled in order to build a comprehensive community.”
Sterling Ranch attributes much of its success to the desire of people to be close to the mountains while walkable to a future urban environment within the master planned community.
More information regarding Sterling Ranch is available at www.sterlingranchcolorado.com.
About the John Burns Report
The John Burns Real Estate Consulting Report has been issued for 13 years, surveying 500+ communities across the nation that entice home buyers with a desirable lifestyle, including community amenities, good schools, and various housing options and have achieved at least 368 new homes during 2023.
About the RCLCO Report
Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling master-planned communities (MPCs) through a rigorous search of high-performing communities in each state. This initiative, now in its 30th consecutive year, exists not only as a way to commend the most successful communities in the country, but also as a tool for monitoring the overall health of the for-sale housing industry, and a means of highlighting the trends affecting communities large and small. This process also serves as a mechanism through which to learn development best practices and pass along lessons gleaned from the MPCs that have pioneered their way into the top ranks.
