Four Seasons at Brandon Farms

Four Seasons at Brandon Farms is a 55+ active-adult community in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, part of the larger Brandon Farms master-planned development off Route 31 near Pennington. K. Hovnanian began building the community in 1997, and every home here is age-restricted to residents 55 and older, which sets it apart from the family-oriented neighborhoods that make up most of the surrounding Hopewell Valley market. Detached, low-maintenance single-family homes here have recently traded from about $505,000 to $690,000, with a median near $612,500. The appeal is straightforward: single-level and easy-care floor plans, a clubhouse built around an active social calendar, and a quieter, rural Hopewell Township setting, all without the yard work and stairs that come with a typical detached house in the area.

The homes

Homes in Four Seasons at Brandon Farms are detached, built primarily during K. Hovnanian's original construction phase that began in 1997, with year-built records in BrightMLS data extending to 2018 and a median year built around 1998. Floor plans run two to four bedrooms and two to three bathrooms, and every home has an attached two-car garage. Square footage on recent sales has generally run from about 1,670 to 2,230 square feet, with a median near 1,920 square feet, and many of the community's plans favor single-level living, a priority for buyers moving out of larger, multi-story houses elsewhere in the area. The community is organized along Foster Road, Temple Court, Stanford Road, and Brewster Court, all internal streets within the larger Brandon Farms development, which keeps traffic light and the pace unhurried.

Setting and location

Four Seasons sits within Hopewell Township, a largely rural corner of Mercer County known for preserved farmland, open space, and a slower pace than the townhouse communities closer to the Route 1 corridor. As part of the broader Brandon Farms development, the community benefits from mature landscaping and a settled, established feel, and it sits alongside the non-restricted sections of Brandon Farms while remaining a distinct, self-contained age-restricted enclave within the larger development. Pennington's small downtown, with its shops, restaurants, and services, is a short drive away, and Route 31 and I-295 put Princeton, Trenton, and the wider Mercer County area within easy reach for medical appointments, shopping, and visits with family. Hopewell Valley Regional Schools serve the address, though with every home age-restricted to residents 55 and older, the district is a secondary consideration here rather than the reason buyers choose the community.

Amenities and lifestyle

The clubhouse is the center of daily life at Four Seasons at Brandon Farms, with a fitness room, billiards, card and game rooms, a library, a kitchen, and meeting space for community events. Outdoors, residents have access to an outdoor pool, tennis courts, bocce courts, shuffleboard courts, horseshoe pits, and walking and biking trails across the grounds. Active social clubs and recurring events, cards, bridge, book club, billiards, and seasonal gatherings among them, give residents an easy way to build a social calendar without leaving the neighborhood. HOA dues, which run roughly $243 to $277 a month with a median near $250, cover exterior maintenance, landscaping, and snow removal in addition to access to the clubhouse and grounds, taking most of the outdoor upkeep off homeowners' hands, a major part of the appeal for buyers downsizing from a larger property.

Market position

Recent BrightMLS closings in Four Seasons at Brandon Farms have run from about $505,000 to $690,000, with a median near $612,500, placing it among the more accessible detached-home options in the Hopewell Valley area and well below the price of comparable non-restricted single-family homes in the surrounding township. Because the community is age-restricted and its homes share a fairly narrow size and layout range, comparable sales here tend to be more directly comparable than in a mixed-age neighborhood, though lot position, updates, and single-level versus two-story layout still move price within that range. Turnover is steady enough to support regular market activity year to year, driven largely by residents relocating to be closer to family or moving to a different level of care. For sellers, that means pricing accurately against true in-community comps matters more than townwide averages; for buyers, it means working with an agent who tracks sales inside Four Seasons specifically, rather than across Hopewell Township broadly, is the surest way to know what a given home should cost.