Hillside at Montgomery

Hillside at Montgomery is a detached-home community in Montgomery Township, Somerset County, built by Sharbell Development Corporation across 2014 and 2015. Its addresses carry the Skillman 08558 mailing designation rather than the Belle Mead 08502 one used across much of the township, a distinction worth getting right when you compare listings, because both are simply mailing names inside the same municipality. BrightMLS records sales here on Comstock Lane, Hartwick Drive and Mystic Drive. The appeal is straightforward: Montgomery Township Public Schools in a house built in the middle of the last decade, with the roof, mechanicals, kitchen and baths that come with that build year. The two most recent closings, both in 2026, ran from $999,999 to $1,075,000.

The homes

These are detached single-family homes on their own lots. Sharbell marketed the product as three bedrooms with two and a half to three and a half baths, two-car garages and full basements, and the recorded sales match that description, running three and four bedrooms with three or four full baths plus a half bath. Finished space above grade clusters tightly: 17 Comstock Lane at 2,975 square feet, 8 Comstock Lane at 2,965, and 25 Mystic Drive also at 2,975, with one notably larger home at 71 Hartwick Drive measuring about 4,466. That clustering is useful to a buyer, because a comparison inside the community is close to like-for-like rather than an adjustment exercise. Listing descriptions on the homes that have come back to market cite hardwood floors, a granite-and-stainless kitchen and a gas fireplace, which is the specification level you would expect from a 2014 build at this price. Monthly association dues recorded on the two 2026 sales were $290 and $295, covering common-area upkeep rather than the houses themselves.

Setting

The community sits in a residential pocket of Montgomery Township a few minutes from the Route 206 corridor, where the township's everyday shopping, groceries and dining cluster. Sales are recorded on Comstock Lane, Hartwick Drive and Mystic Drive. We do not publish a total home count here, and that is deliberate: our transaction records measure turnover rather than extent, and public address data for this newer part of the township is too thin to establish a number, so any figure would be a guess. What can be said is that this was a planned builder build-out completed in 2015 rather than scattered infill, that homes sit on their own lots, and that association dues cover the common areas. If you are searching listing portals, search the Skillman 08558 address; Belle Mead 08502 will return a different section of the same township.

Schools

Every home is served by Montgomery Township Public Schools, whose Montgomery High School is consistently ranked among the top public high schools in Somerset County and statewide in New Jersey, and that district is the main reason most buyers look at this pocket of the township at all. The commute is car-first. Route 206 runs the length of Montgomery and carries traffic south toward Princeton, roughly fifteen minutes away, and north toward Somerville. Rail commuters bound for New York generally drive to Princeton Junction on the NJ Transit Northeast Corridor line, about twenty-five minutes out. Princeton University and the Route 1 employment corridor are both inside a normal daily drive.

Market position

BrightMLS puts the township-wide median for detached homes near $1,012,500 across 202 closings in the last twenty-four months. The two recent Hillside at Montgomery sales, $999,999 in March 2026 and $1,075,000 in April 2026, sit right on that line. Read plainly, the money here buys a mid-2010s house at roughly what a typical Montgomery detached home costs, so the build year is the differentiator rather than the price tier. Both 2026 sales closed within a percent of their original asking prices, and they moved in eleven and thirty-four days. Two sales is a thin record and not a trend, and the older record is thinner still: 71 Hartwick Drive closed at $1,030,000 in May 2023 after opening at $1,200,000, and 25 Mystic Drive closed at $705,000 in September 2020, both outside the twenty-four-month window the sold table below uses. With this few comparables inside the community, pricing a home here means reaching out to Montgomery's other 2010s detached houses, which is the kind of judgment call worth working through before a listing goes live.