How to Read the Painted Prairie Market: A Field Guide for Buyers & Sellers
What to actually track at a master-planned community where nine builders are still selling next door to every resale. Standard market reports miss most of it.
Quarterly and ad-hoc analysis of what's actually happening in the Painted Prairie market — including the slices a standard MLS pull won't surface.
The Painted Prairie market is not a normal resale market. Nine builders are still selling new construction across the community, which means resale homes are being priced against an active builder price sheet a few blocks away. Market reports written for typical resale neighborhoods miss this dynamic entirely. The pieces in this category focus on what to actually track at Painted Prairie — builder base prices, lot premium movements, incentive cycles, design center allowances, and how all of that interacts with the comparable resale data.
What to actually track at a master-planned community where nine builders are still selling next door to every resale. Standard market reports miss most of it.