Our Methodology

One page per community

Every qualifying community gets exactly one definitive, indexable page covering amenities, fees, pricing, restrictions, location, and more — instead of being spread across separate pages for each topic. We believe this produces more useful, more trustworthy research than a directory of thin, single-topic pages.

Source priority

We prioritize sources in roughly this order when researching a community:

1. Recorded declarations and government documents
2. Official HOA or association sources
3. Official builder or developer sources
4. County tax, planning, GIS, and property records
5. Authorized MLS information
6. Reputable brokerage or listing sources
7. Directories, used only for discovery or secondary corroboration

What we don't do

We don't guess. Where a fact couldn't be verified to our standard, our pages say so explicitly rather than presenting an estimate as confirmed. We don't assume "active adult" marketing automatically means a legally age-restricted community — we say which classification applies and flag when it isn't independently confirmed.

Keeping pages current

Prices, listings, and fees are reviewed on a roughly 90-day cycle; amenities and construction status roughly every 180 days; stable development history annually. Every page shows the date it was last researched.

Independence from sponsors and agents

Sponsored local-offers placements and our agent-connection service are both kept separate from our editorial research. Neither a sponsor nor a participating agent can alter what a community page says.