Windsor Green

Windsor Green is a detached single-family community in West Windsor Township, Mercer County, inside the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District. BrightMLS records its sales on Lake Shore Drive, Greene Drive, Greene Court, Wood Hollow Road, and Lake View Court, with build years spanning 1962 to 1986. The houses that have sold here run 4 to 5 bedrooms and roughly 2,278 to 3,261 square feet above grade. Six have closed since the start of 2022, from $680,000 to $1,200,000, with a median of $882,500, and the most recent on record closed in May 2024 at $1,200,000. Turnover is the single most important thing to understand about this community: with ten sales on the books since 2019, a buyer or seller here is working from a short list of comparables rather than a steady stream of them.

The homes

Every sale on record here is a detached single-family house on its own lot. Build years run from 1962 to 1986, so the community filled in over roughly a quarter century, and an early 1960s house and a mid 1980s house are genuinely different products even when they sit on the same street. The floor plans that have traded run 4 to 5 bedrooms and about 2,278 to 3,261 square feet above grade, with two or three full baths and, in most cases, a half bath as well; one of the recorded homes carries two half baths. Size alone does not set the price. Two houses on Lake Shore Drive make the point: a 3,192 square foot home built in 1984 closed at $985,000, while a smaller 2,501 square foot home built in 1986 closed at $1,200,000. The larger house works out to roughly $309 per square foot against roughly $480 for the smaller one. Build year and condition explain that spread far more than size does, which is why an appraisal-style read of each house matters more here than a price-per-foot rule of thumb.

The setting

The community sits in West Windsor Township, Mercer County, in the 08550 zip code, spread across five streets: Lake Shore Drive, Greene Drive, Greene Court, Wood Hollow Road, and Lake View Court. Two of those, Lake Shore Drive and Greene Drive, are shared with Princeton Manor, a separately recorded subdivision, at different house numbers. That matters more than it sounds. A house on Greene Drive is not automatically a Windsor Green house, and the address, not the street name, is what settles it. Anyone pulling comparables along these streets should check the subdivision on each individual record rather than assume the whole street trades as one market, and the same caution applies to online estimates that group by street. With build years running from 1962 to 1986, the streetscape reads as an established one rather than a recent build-out, and everyday shopping and dining in West Windsor are concentrated along the Route 571 corridor.

Schools

Every home here is served by the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, K-12, one of New Jersey's consistently top-ranked public systems and the main reason buyers concentrate on this part of Mercer County. The district assigns students to High School North or High School South by address, so the current assignment for a specific house is worth confirming with the district rather than inferring it from the community name. For commuters, Princeton Junction station on the NJ Transit Northeast Corridor line serves West Windsor, putting Midtown Manhattan roughly 50 minutes out, with service in the other direction toward Trenton and Philadelphia. The combination of that rail access and the district is what holds West Windsor pricing above comparable houses further from the line.

Market position

Six homes have closed here since the start of 2022, from $680,000 to $1,200,000, with a median of $882,500. Five of those six cleared $820,000 and have a median of $900,000 among them: $985,000 in January 2022, $865,000 in April 2022, $900,000 in May 2022, $820,000 in February 2023, and $1,200,000 in May 2024. The sixth, a 2,278 square foot house that closed at $680,000 in February 2022, sits below the rest of that group. The top of the range has also been tested. A house on Lake View Court came to market in August 2024 at $1,395,000 and expired in March 2025 without selling, which leaves the demonstrated ceiling at the $1,200,000 that closed three months before it listed. With ten sales on record since 2019 and none since May 2024, pricing here is a comp-by-comp exercise rather than a matter of applying a neighborhood median, and the shared streets with Princeton Manor make pulling the right comparables the first job rather than the last.