Princeton Manor

Princeton Manor is one subdivision split across two townships, and this page covers the Plainsboro Township section: the larger, newer half of the community. It's the bigger of the two sections, 22 sales in our records against 10 on the West Windsor Township side, and it carries a different character to match, larger homes on newer streets. Most homes here carry a Cranbury mailing address on a search portal even though the parcels are in Plainsboro Township, with Plainsboro municipal services, a Plainsboro tax bill, and West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional schools. A smaller number carry a Plainsboro mailing address directly. Closed sales in our records have run from $740,000 to $1,575,000, with a median near $951,000.

The homes

Every home in this section is detached single-family. There are no townhomes or condominiums in our records, and it is not an age-restricted community. Floor plans are large: mostly four and five bedrooms with a couple of six-bedroom houses, and above-grade square footage from about 2,723 to 4,504. All of the homes date to 1992 through 1994, a single, consistent build era across Kinglet Drive North and South, Tanager Lane, Bunting Court and Bunting Lane, Osprey Court and Osprey Lane, Mockingbird Lane, and Woodland Drive. Our data shows no HOA fee, so owners handle their own lawn care, snow removal, and exterior upkeep.

Setting

The mailing address is the single most useful thing to understand about this section. A listing here can surface under Cranbury on a search portal and still be a Plainsboro Township home, with Plainsboro municipal services, a Plainsboro tax bill, and West Windsor-Plainsboro schools. Buyers who filter a portal search by town alone will miss homes in this section, and sellers whose mail reads Cranbury sometimes have to explain the same point to their own buyers. Built roughly twenty years after the West Windsor section across the line, these streets carry a newer streetscape, with landscaping that has had about thirty years to mature rather than fifty.

Schools

Every address in this section is served by the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, one of New Jersey's consistently top-ranked public systems, regardless of whether the mailing address reads Cranbury or Plainsboro. For commuters, Princeton Junction is the nearby Northeast Corridor station, with NJ Transit service toward New York Penn Station in one direction and Trenton and Philadelphia in the other. Route 1 handles the drive to Princeton and to the corporate campuses and research parks along the corridor.

Market position

Closed sales in this section have run from $740,000 for a 2,784 square foot house on Tanager Lane up to $1,575,000 for a 3,575 square foot, five-bedroom house on Kinglet Drive South, with a median near $951,000. Current inventory, shown live in the table above, has been asking in the $1.2 million to $1.7 million range. This is the larger and more active of Princeton Manor's two sections, though turnover is still modest enough that pricing benefits from comparing within this newer section rather than against the smaller, older homes on the West Windsor side. The Wu Team has sold in Princeton Manor, at 18 Tanager Lane in 2019, part of this Plainsboro section.