On August 18, 2026, four members of the Henderson City Council voted to adopt Ordinance No. 4169, clearing the way for 54 new residential units inside MacDonald Highlands. No one voted no. One council member, Monica Larson, was absent. The vote itself barely registered outside Henderson's planning circles.
But for anyone comparing MacDonald Highlands against Summerlin's hillside enclaves or Henderson's other guard-gated communities, that vote matters more than the headline suggests. MacDonald Highlands built its identity on custom estates behind a single guard gate. It now has three distinct residential products stacked inside one master plan, and the same handful of development names keep showing up to build them. A buyer who treats any published price for "MacDonald Highlands" as one market is comparing three different things without realizing it.
What the council actually approved
The ordinance rezoned 13.7 acres near the intersection of Mystic Rock Place and Rock Peak Drive, in the McCullough Hills section of the community, creating a new Planning Area 29 and transferring 54 residential units into it from the adjacent Planning Area 28. The project calls for 19 ground-level villas, each with two to three bedrooms, alongside two residential towers holding a combined 35 units. The public notice lists PA18L1, LLC as the owner and developer of record, with Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo as architect and Westwood Professional Services handling civil engineering. Also named on the project: Luxus Developments, Azure Resorts, and Two Roads Development.
Those first two names are not new to this master plan. Reporting on the project's path through Henderson's Planning Commission, which recommended approval in mid-July before the council's August vote, confirmed the same developer pairing sits behind this new 54-unit project.
That pairing is the same one that brought MacDonald Highlands its first high-rise.
The names that keep showing up
Azure Resorts and Luxus Developments partnered years ago on what eventually became the Four Seasons Private Residences, an $1.3 billion two-tower project a short drive from the new Planning Area 29 site. Azure's founder, a longtime Henderson resident, described the original decision to build inside these gates in blunt terms:
"We chose MacDonald Highlands because it was the pre-eminent luxury, guard-gated, golf-course community in Henderson."
That project has since sold through much of its inventory. Reporting on the sales pace found that by May 2024, 46 percent of the 171 planned condos, worth roughly $428 million, were under contract as site work continued ahead of the towers going vertical. Completion is now expected in late 2026, with move-ins following into 2027. Prices start at $3.5 million for a two-bedroom unit, and the two remaining penthouses were priced just under $22 million and $29 million.
Azure and Luxus did not build a second unrelated project somewhere else in Henderson. They came back to the same master plan, with a new partner in Two Roads Development, for a smaller, lower-profile product. That is not speculation about their intentions. It is what the public record shows.
Three products, one address
Here is what a buyer is actually choosing between when a listing says "MacDonald Highlands":
| Product | Units | Entry price | Timeline | Behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom estates | Hundreds of lots across the community's villages | Roughly $2.5 million and up | Ongoing infill since the 1990s | Blue Heron and other custom builders |
| Four Seasons Private Residences | 171 condos plus standalone villas | $3.5 million (two-bedroom) | Completion late 2026, move-ins into 2027 | Azure Resorts, Luxus Developments, WATG |
| Planning Area 29 | 54 units (19 villas, 35 tower units) | Not yet released | Approved August 2026, construction pending | PA18L1 LLC with Azure Resorts, Luxus Developments, Two Roads Development |
The custom estate side of this table is where MacDonald Highlands built its reputation, and it is still where the ceiling sits. The all-time record for a Henderson home sale, $25.25 million, belongs to a MacDonald Highlands estate at 685 Dragon Peak Drive, sold in July 2025. A more recent example shows how tightly held that top tier can be: a Blue Heron-built home called Clarius, at 607 Alpine Summit Drive, sold for $13.4 million after closing in October, having never publicly hit the market. It was built in 2025 and sold before construction finished.
That is a genuinely different transaction, and a genuinely different buyer pool, than someone shopping a two-bedroom unit in a 24-story tower. Both will show up under the same neighborhood name in a search.
What a blended median hides
DragonRidge Country Club anchors the estate side of the community: an 18-hole Jay Morrish and David Druzisky design, a clubhouse running roughly 40,000 square feet, and dining rooms including the Montrose Steakhouse. That club membership functions as its own gate within the gate, separate from anything a condo buyer at Four Seasons or Planning Area 29 is purchasing into. A buyer comparing "MacDonald Highlands" prices across listing sites needs to know which product, and which amenity structure, sits behind each number.
This is the part that gets lost when a single median price gets quoted for the whole community. Averaging a $2.5 million custom lot against a $3.5 million branded condo against whatever Planning Area 29 eventually prices at produces a number that describes none of them accurately. It is the same distortion that shows up whenever a master-planned community stacks genuinely different housing products under one name.
Three questions before you trust a comp
- Is the comparable listing an estate lot, a Four Seasons unit, or something in the new Planning Area 29 project, and does the price reflect the land, the branding, or the building?
- Does the price include DragonRidge Country Club access, or is that a separate membership cost layered on top?
- Is the seller comparing MacDonald Highlands to another hillside community, like Ascaya or Seven Hills, using a headline median that mixes the same kind of apples and oranges?
None of these questions has a wrong answer. They just need to be asked before a number gets treated as settled.
What this means if you're cross-shopping
Buyers weighing MacDonald Highlands against other Henderson hillside communities are often working from a single figure pulled off a portal. That figure is less useful here than almost anywhere else in the valley, precisely because the community now contains three structurally different products under one gate. A buyer focused on a custom estate should be comparing lot size, builder, and view corridor against places like Seven Hills or Anthem Country Club. A buyer looking at Four Seasons or the coming Planning Area 29 units is really comparing branded and boutique condo product, a different conversation entirely, with different carrying costs and a different resale path.
Knowing which conversation you're in before you tour is the difference between negotiating from strength and negotiating from a number that was never describing your product to begin with.
FAQ
Does Planning Area 29 come with DragonRidge Country Club access? The public record for the project does not specify club membership terms. That is a question worth confirming directly with the developer once sales materials are released, the same way a Four Seasons buyer would confirm club access separately from their purchase agreement.
When will Planning Area 29 units be priced and available? Pricing has not been released as of this writing. The project was approved in August 2026, and construction timing has not been made public.
Is the Four Seasons Private Residences project finished? Not yet. Completion is expected in late 2026, with residents expected to begin moving in during the first quarter of 2027.
If you are comparing MacDonald Highlands against other hillside communities, or trying to figure out which of its three products actually fits what you're looking for, MS Luxury Homes can walk you through the estate inventory, the Four Seasons timeline, and what Planning Area 29 will mean once pricing is public. Connect with Michele to talk through the comparison before you tour.
