After another robust week of sales, Riverstone is on pace to double 2011 new-home purchases.

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The Fort Bend development posted 23 new-home sales the week of May 14, reaching 223 for the year. In comparison, 2011 reports show 111 sales through the same time period.

"Riverstone has had a terrific year," said Tom Wilcox, Riverstone's general manager. "We've introduced several new neighborhoods that are certainly resonating with buyers and we are well located, so residents can easily enjoy all the immediate area has to offer, including the new Constellation Field, the Imperial Farmers Market and the many events at Sugar Land Town Square."

In addition to many new-home sales the week of May 14 builders also started work on nine homes, bringing the year-to-date total number of housing starts to 127, compared with 90 in 2011. Also, 14 buyers closed on new homes in Riverstone last week.

Riverstone posted first-quarter new home sales 91 percent higher than the first quarter of 2011, which was a record-breaking year for the development. That's well above the 34 percent increase seen in the overall Houston area for the first quarter of 2012, as reported by Metrostudy. The housing research firm ranks Riverstone No. 3 on its list of top-selling master-planned communities in the Houston area for the first quarter of 2012. John Burns Real Estate Consulting places Riverstone among the nation's 15 top-selling master-planned communities for 2011.

"We are now just 80 sales away from matching our total new-home sales for 2011," Wilcox said. "Not only are we on track for another record-breaking year of sales, but, in March, we achieved another milestone — 2,000 sales since the community's inception."

For more information on Riverstone, visit www.riverstone.com.

About Riverstone

Riverstone is a 3,700-acre master-planned community near U.S. 59 and Highway 6, The Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road and Texas 288. Well-known production and custom builders have completed 2,000 homes in the development, which is designed for 6,000 homes during the next eight years, 250 acres of lakes, 20 miles of hike-and-bike trails and 500 acres of open spaces and park lands. Housing styles range from townhomes, patio homes, garden homes and single-family homes to multi-million-dollar homes on homesites as large as a half-acre. The Johnson Development Corp. is the developer of the community, which offers a premier Fort Bend location. To learn more about the amenity-rich neighborhoods of Riverstone, visit www.Riverstone.com.

About The Johnson Development Corp.

The Johnson Development Corp. is a Houston-based, award-winning residential and commercial land development company. For more than three decades, the company has set the standard for successful master-planned communities in Houston, Atlanta and other markets around the country. Its impressive collection of Houston-area communities includes Sienna Plantation, Riverstone, Fall Creek, Woodforest, Cross Creek Ranch, Tuscan Lakes, Edgewater, Silverlake and the new Imperial development. Johnson Development's communities in Atlanta include Towne Lake, BridgeMill and Lake Arrowhead. The company also provides outsourced development and construction services for property owners without the management resources or in-house development team to realize the potential of their land positions. For more information on Johnson Development, visit www.johnsondevelopment.com.

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