Midway through the year, Forest City Development's master-planned community, Stapleton, was ranked 11th in Metrostudy's top Master Planned Community report, with a 44.6% increase in housing starts over the first half of 2012.

Shea Homes' Highlands Ranch moved up four notches in Metrostudy's lot-by-lot survey, through a 31.5% growth over the same period last year. That improvement moved the community, which was previously ranked 20, up to 16.

Metrostudy's Tom Hayden noted that Highlands Ranch was 15% from buildout through the end of the second quarter, and the community was one of two that made the list for the Denver-based developer. Shea's community in Central Valley, CA, Mountain House, gained an 83.5% increase in starts through the second quarter, over the same period last year. Read more...