Yorkshire Village

Yorkshire Village is a detached single-family community in Lawrence Township, Mercer County, built between 1998 and 2007. It has produced 46 closed sales through BrightMLS since 2019, spread across nine named streets, which makes it one of the larger and better-documented tract developments in the township. The homes are colonial-style builder models on a consistent footprint, the schools are Lawrence Township, and the association dues are low enough that they barely register in a monthly payment. Closings over the last two years ran from $687,500 to $801,000, with a median near $755,000, which puts the community above the typical Lawrence Township detached house without moving it into a different price class.

The homes

Every home here is detached, and the MLS record is unusually consistent. Above-grade living space runs 1,893 to 2,308 square feet with a median near 2,009, and the bedroom count splits 29 four-bedroom homes to 21 three-bedroom homes across the sales on file. The recent closings all carry two full baths plus a powder room. Listing remarks name specific builder models, a Cambridge model colonial among them, which is the signature of a single-builder tract rather than a collection of one-off custom houses. Brick fronts, two-story foyers, hardwood staircases, and separate formal living and dining rooms turn up repeatedly in the descriptions. Several homes have finished basements that add real usable space without appearing in the above-grade square footage, so two listings both showing about 2,008 square feet can live very differently. Because the community was phased in over roughly a decade, a 1998 home and a 2007 home sit on the same street grid, and the difference shows up more in systems and finishes than in floor plan.

Streets and setting

The development spreads across nine named streets. Canal View Drive is the spine, accounting for 18 of the 46 closed sales on record, followed by Yorkshire Village Road with 9. Marchesi Drive and Flanigan Street have four each, Port Mercer Road and Morrell Road three each, Vaccaro Road and Baker Street two each, and Richards Road one. That is a genuinely multi-street community rather than a single loop, and the street names point at the setting: the Delaware and Raritan Canal and its towpath run nearby, and Port Mercer is the historic canal crossing at this end of Lawrence Township. Route 1, Route 206, and I-295 are all a short drive away, which puts Princeton, the Quaker Bridge retail corridor, and the Hamilton and Princeton Junction rail stations within reach. Association dues run about $30 to $70 a month. There is no large amenity package attached to that figure, and the flip side is that the monthly carrying cost stays close to taxes and insurance alone, which is a real advantage against newer communities in the same price band.

Schools and the 08648 address quirk

Every home in Yorkshire Village is served by the Lawrence Township School District, confirmed on all 50 MLS records tied to the community. That is worth stating plainly, because the mailing addresses are messier than the municipal reality. The zip code is 08648 throughout, but the city field varies across listings: Lawrence on 29 records, Lawrence Township on 16, Lawrence Twp on one, and Trenton on four. The 08648 zip is shared between Lawrence Township and Trenton mail-delivery areas, much like the Princeton mailing addresses that reach into neighboring townships. The four Trenton-labeled homes sit on Baker Street, Port Mercer Road, and Morrell Road, the same streets as their Lawrence-labeled neighbors, and every one of them carries the Lawrence school assignment. The municipality is Lawrence Township for the entire community, and the school assignment follows the township, not the postmark. Buyers who search by mailing city can miss listings here, or assume a school assignment that does not apply. The community is also not age-restricted; none of the 50 records is flagged as a 55-plus property.

Market position

The last two years produced eight closings between $687,500 and $801,000, with a median near $755,000. Over the same window the median detached sale across the Lawrence Township district was about $630,000, so Yorkshire Village runs roughly 20 percent above the typical detached house in its own town. That places it as a solid mid-market family community rather than a top-tier address, which is a fair description of what the size, age, and dues actually deliver. The longer trend is the more useful number. Sales in 2020 clustered between $460,000 and $545,000, 2021 ran $479,000 to $680,000, 2022 sat between $552,000 and $670,000, 2023 between $522,000 and $702,000, a 2024 sale reached $700,000, and 2025 and 2026 closings have landed between $687,500 and $801,000. That is a steady multi-year climb rather than a spike, and the three closings in the past twelve months all came in at $770,000 or above. The Wu Team listed and sold 70 Canal View Drive here, which closed at $650,000 in December 2023. With a consistent floor plan and a deep sales history to work from, pricing a home in Yorkshire Village comes down to condition, basement finish, and which builder model a house is, rather than guesswork about the community itself.