Manors at Montgomery

Manors at Montgomery is a townhome community of roughly 90 to 100 homes in Montgomery Township, Somerset County, built as a single project in 1986 and laid out along two streets, Manor Drive and Marten Road, just east of Route 206 north of Princeton. Its defining feature is a combination buyers often assume they have to choose between: a Princeton 08540 mailing address and the Montgomery Township School District. The homes are modest by area standards, 2 and 3 bedrooms and roughly 1,172 to 1,838 square feet, which makes this one of the more attainable ways into the district. Recorded closings have moved from the mid $300,000s in 2020 to $585,000 and $640,000 in the two most recent sales, so buyers who bought here early in the decade have done well.

The homes

Every MLS record for the community shows a 1986 build year, so this is a single-era development rather than one that filled in over a decade. The MLS classes most homes as interior-row or end-of-row townhomes, with a few recorded as twin or semi-detached. Three-bedroom plans dominate the record, and the 2-bedroom homes that have traded are both 1,172 square foot end units, the smallest floor plan here. Square footage above grade runs 1,172 to 1,838 with a median of 1,616, so the gap between the smallest and largest home is real but not dramatic. Homeowners association dues in recent listings have run roughly $300 to $340 a month, covering the shared grounds and exterior common areas that come with townhome ownership. End-of-row homes carry an extra exposure and usually more light, and the larger end units sit at the top of the price range, so unit type and floor plan matter at least as much as street address when you are comparing two homes here.

Setting

The community occupies two streets and nothing else. Manor Drive runs a plain house-number sequence, while Marten Road addresses read as building-and-unit numbers, a common pattern in clustered townhome developments of this era and something to keep straight when you are trying to find a specific unit. Both streets sit in the southern corner of Montgomery Township, just east of Route 206 and close enough to the Princeton line that postal delivery follows Princeton rather than the township. Listing remarks over the years describe cul-de-sac positions, southern exposure, mature trees, and expansive common ground behind the buildings, so the interior of the community reads quieter than its proximity to a state highway suggests. Route 206 handles the north-south drive, downtown Princeton and Princeton University are minutes south, and everyday shopping along the 206 corridor is close at hand.

Schools

Every home is zoned for the Montgomery Township School District, which runs through Montgomery High School and is consistently among the stronger public systems in central New Jersey. This point is worth repeating because the Princeton 08540 mailing address leads some buyers to assume Princeton Public Schools. It does not work that way. USPS delivery zones are drawn independently of municipal boundaries, and the 08540 zone extends north past the Princeton border into this corner of Montgomery Township, so the envelope says Princeton while the property sits in Montgomery Township, Somerset County, and attends Montgomery Township schools. For buyers who want the Montgomery district, that is a straightforward benefit; for buyers specifically targeting Princeton Public Schools, it is the thing to check before falling for the address. For commuters, the nearest Northeast Corridor rail service is Princeton Junction, roughly a twenty minute drive south, with Midtown Manhattan about fifty minutes from there by train.

Market position

The price history here is unusually clear for a community this small. Recorded closings ran $355,000 to $387,000 across 2020, reached a $460,000 to $515,000 band in 2022, and the two most recent sales closed at $585,000 in October 2024 and $640,000 in March 2025. A three-bedroom interior unit on Manor Drive that closed at $368,000 in March 2021 is a useful marker for how far the community has traveled in four years. That said, the top of the range is being tested rather than taken for granted: asking prices in the $600,000s have both found buyers quickly and, in at least one case, failed to sell and come off the market. Turnover is thin, seventeen recorded closings since 2020 across roughly ninety to one hundred townhomes, so there are rarely more than one or two genuine comparables available at any moment, and pricing to the right floor plan and unit type is where the work sits. The Wu Team represented the seller on the 25 Manor Drive sale that closed at $368,000 in March 2021.