Montgomery Oaks

Montgomery Oaks is two cul-de-sac courts in Montgomery Township, Aster Court and Westbury Court, built out between 1996 and 1998 with detached four and five bedroom houses. It is a small pocket, and the honest headline is that it almost never trades. Eleven closings are on record in our BrightMLS data, and the most recent one closed in June 2024. That is more than two years ago, so every twenty-four-month statistic on this page has nothing to work with and shows a dash or a zero. Read that as owners who stay rather than as a market nobody wants. Across those eleven closings the median was $999,999 and the range ran from $852,000 to $1,370,000, and one house is listed for sale right now, asking near the top of that historical range.

The homes

All eleven closings on record are detached single-family houses, four or five bedrooms, most with three full baths plus a half, and a few reaching five bathrooms. Above-grade square footage runs from about 3,171 to 4,194, a spread of more than a thousand feet between the smallest and the largest house that has sold. That is worth saying plainly, because an earlier version of this page claimed the opposite. The courts look alike from the street, and the build years are only three seasons apart, but the floor plans are not one product. A buyer comparing two Montgomery Oaks addresses should expect a real square-footage adjustment between them rather than treating any past sale as a drop-in comparable. Build years span 1996 to 1998, with 25 Westbury Court the one 1998 house in the record. No association fee appears on any of the closed sales, so exterior upkeep and the courts themselves are handled without the monthly dues an association community would carry. It is not an age-restricted community.

Streets and setting

The community is two dead-end courts, and that is the whole of it. Aster Court carries a Belle Mead 08502 address and Westbury Court carries a Skillman 08558 address, both inside Montgomery Township in Somerset County. The two zip codes trip people up, because a buyer looking at one listing and then another can reasonably think they are seeing two different neighborhoods, or that one of them is not really Montgomery. Both are ordinary Montgomery Township postal areas, and both sets of houses sit in the same township and the same school district. Cul-de-sac streets mean no through traffic, which is the practical reason families with young children keep coming back to layouts like this one. It also means the community has no pass-through visibility, so homes here rarely draw drive-by interest and depend on the listing reaching the right buyer.

Schools and commute

Every home is served by Montgomery Township Public Schools, a highly regarded Somerset County system and the main draw for buyers targeting this part of the township. The specific elementary catchment depends on the street address, so confirm it for the individual house rather than for the neighborhood as a whole. The Skillman and Belle Mead setting keeps daily life low-density while placing Princeton a short drive away, roughly 15 to 20 minutes, with Route 206 carrying most of the north-south local driving. Buyers who commute further should drive their actual route at their actual departure time rather than trusting a map estimate, since the corridors around Princeton behave very differently at rush hour.

Market position

The all-time median here of $999,999 sits essentially at the Montgomery Township twenty-four-month median for detached houses, which is $1,025,000. That placement is the useful fact. These are big houses, comfortably over 3,000 square feet and often close to 4,000, but the price they command is a normal Montgomery detached price rather than a premium one, so buyers get square footage per dollar rather than a prestige address. Pricing a sale here is harder than in a community that turns over every year. With no closing since June 2024 there is no current comparable inside the community at all, and any seller working from the $852,000 to $1,370,000 historical spread is working from a wide and dated band. The realistic method is to price against comparable Montgomery Township detached houses of similar size and era, then adjust for the square footage and condition of the specific house, and to watch what the current listing does, since the first sale in more than two years will reset what everyone here uses as a comp.