Google Hell for Real Estate sites... or is it?

There's been a pretty noticeable shake in the blogs, forums and social networks related to real estate industry where well known online marketing providers having troubles with their web sites staying with their "heads above the water". Yes, I'm talking about those penalties in Yahoo and recently in Google triggered by excessive reciprocal linking. In many forums agents announcing their links to be removed and many marketing companies removing (or suggesting to remove) them for their clients. With all that in mind I was checking on some rankings this morning and finding this Phoenix site ranking #1 with all those nice,carefully selected by Google, sitelinks: To me, site links always represented "well deserved" shortcuts to highly relevant pages on a site that has high Google Trust Rank. This is not a fact - that's just my own interpretation. But, here what Google says about sitelinks:

We show them when we think they'll be most useful to searchers, saving them time from hunting through web pages to find the information they are looking for.

After all that talk that state pages are not helpful and bluh...bluh..bluh... Google thinks that 2 links to the "links pages" will be "the most useful to searchers"... I don't know what kind of Google-weed they smoke over there, but it must be pretty strong.