Nassau II

Nassau II is one of the larger post-war subdivisions in Lawrence Township, Mercer County, laid out across the streets that branch off Princeton Pike between Darrah Lane and Stonicker Drive. It went up between 1958 and 1971, part of the build-out that more than doubled Lawrence Township's population from 8,500 to over 19,000 between 1950 and 1970. Every home is detached, and no listing here carries a homeowners association, so owners set their own terms on landscaping, additions and exterior work. Seventeen homes closed over the last 24 months at a median of $634,000, ranging from $465,000 to $725,000. What buyers get for that is a full-size mid-century house with its own driveway and yard, no association dues, and a location on the Princeton Pike corridor with quick reach to I-295.

The homes

Detached single-family only, all 33 BrightMLS records in the subdivision. Bedroom counts skew to four, with thirteen three-bedroom homes, eighteen four-bedroom homes and a pair of five-bedroom houses. Above-grade space across those records runs roughly 1,450 to 2,600 square feet, and garages are typically one or two cars. The resale stock is on public water and public sewer. Basements are the real variable: some homes have full finished lower levels, some partial and unfinished, and a meaningful share have none at all, which is unusual enough for a neighborhood of this era that it is worth confirming house by house rather than assuming. Because the houses were built across roughly thirteen years and have been owned by different families since, systems age is what separates the top of the price range from the bottom. The listing now active at 5 Royal Oak Road, asking $625,000, advertises a 2026 air conditioner, HVAC, hot water heater and a 200-amp electrical service, and that kind of documented mechanical work is exactly what a buyer is paying up for here.

Streets and setting

Recent sales place Nassau II on Stonicker Drive, Glenn Avenue, Royal Oak Road, Allen Lane, Hillsdale Road, Empress Lane, Rosetree Lane, Rosalind Drive, Camelia Court, Cresthill Road, Tower Place, Allegheny Avenue, Clementon Way, Coolidge Avenue and East Darrah Lane, with a single home fronting Princeton Pike itself. Stonicker Park, a township playground at 68 Stonicker Drive, sits inside the neighborhood rather than a drive away, which is a genuine amenity on a street where houses regularly change hands. Mail goes to Lawrence, Lawrence Township or Trenton addresses, all in the 08648 ZIP code, and the Lawrenceville name on a listing here refers to the postal designation, not a separate municipality. Princeton Pike, County Route 583, is the spine of the area: I-295 meets it at Exit 68 about 1.2 miles from the neighborhood, Route 206 is roughly 2.7 miles and Route 1 roughly 3.9 miles. Rider University is about 2 miles away and The College of New Jersey about 4 miles, which puts a steady base of faculty and staff demand behind these streets. The big-box shopping at Nassau Park Pavilion is about 6 miles out, close enough for a weekly run and far enough that the neighborhood itself stays residential.

Schools and commute

Nassau II is served by Lawrence Township Public Schools, the district that runs Lawrence High School. Lawrence assigns elementary students by address across several schools, so the zoned elementary should be confirmed for the specific house rather than assumed from the subdivision. For commuters, the honest framing is closest versus fastest. Trenton Transit Center is the nearest Northeast Corridor station at roughly 5 road miles, and it carries NJ Transit, Amtrak and SEPTA service. Princeton Junction is farther, roughly 8 road miles, but its Northeast Corridor trains reach Penn Station faster. Both to-be-built listings on Coolidge Avenue name Trenton and Hamilton Transit Centers as the reference points for this location, which matches what the road distances show. Downtown Princeton is roughly 8.5 road miles straight up Princeton Pike.

Market position

At a $634,000 median over 17 closings, Nassau II prices above its older sibling Nassau I, which ran a $580,000 median in the same window, and the gap tracks the later build years and larger floor plans. Pace is steady rather than frantic, but well-priced houses do not linger: 6 Tower Place went under contract in five days at a $570,000 asking price. The one thread worth watching is new construction. Two to-be-built houses on Coolidge Avenue are asking $850,000 and $875,000, part of what their listings describe as an exclusive three-lot private subdivision, and they have sat for 95 days. Those are infill on new lots and should be read separately from the 1958 to 1971 resale stock, but they do mark the ceiling a builder thinks this location can support. The Wu Team has worked both sides of this neighborhood, listing 10 Stonicker Drive at a $500,000 close in July 2024 and representing the buyer at 14 Hillsdale Road at $650,000 in May 2024, which is the kind of two-sided read that matters when a subdivision this size only produces eight or ten true comparables a year.