Bedens Brook Estates

Bedens Brook Estates is a small estate community in Montgomery Township, Somerset County, built at the end of the 1990s and carrying a Skillman 08558 mailing address. It spans six streets: Gaitway Drive, Hunters Path, Blue Heron Way, Green Meadow Road, Kingfisher Lane, and Buck Ridge. The homes are detached, four and five bedrooms, built between 1997 and 1999, and the sales on record run 4,411 to 4,709 square feet. A median close of $1,785,000 puts the community in Montgomery's upper tier, well above the township-wide detached median, with Montgomery Township Public Schools serving every address.

The homes

Every home here is detached and dates to a three-year window, 1997 through 1999, so the community reads as a single build era rather than a patchwork. Recorded sales run 4,411 to 4,709 square feet with four or five bedrooms, and on those figures the price per square foot has landed between $326 and $446. Basements vary more than the floor plans do: of the four sales BrightMLS has on record, two had fully finished basements, one was partial, and one was unfinished.

Setting and location

The community is laid out across six streets: Gaitway Drive, Hunters Path, Blue Heron Way, Green Meadow Road, Kingfisher Lane, and Buck Ridge. All six sit in Montgomery Township and use a Skillman 08558 mailing address. Bedens Brook Estates is immediately adjacent to the Cherry Valley Country Club community and close to Bedens Brook Road, and Princeton is roughly a twelve-minute drive. Because the community spans six separately named streets, a search built around any one street name returns only part of it.

Schools

Every home is served by Montgomery Township Public Schools, the Somerset County district based in Skillman. The district runs Orchard Hill Elementary School and Village Elementary School at the lower grades, Montgomery Lower Middle School and Montgomery Upper Middle School in between, and Montgomery High School for grades nine through twelve, so students stay inside one district from the elementary years through graduation. Montgomery High School is roughly a seven-minute drive from the community.

Market position

Across Montgomery Township, detached homes recorded 93 closings over the last 12 months at a $1,076,000 median, a median 14 days to contract, and 101.9% of original list. Bedens Brook Estates sits well above that median, in the township's upper tier alongside Rock Brook Estates. The four sales BrightMLS has on record also show an unusually direct relationship between speed and price. The two that went under contract inside about a week sold at or above their original asking price: 37 Blue Heron Way closed at $2,100,000 against a $1,999,000 ask after six days, and 40 Gaitway Drive closed at $1,650,000, exactly its asking price, after eight days. The two that took about a month closed under it: 17 Hunters Path at $1,920,000 against $1,999,000 after 32 days, and 10 Gaitway Drive at $1,510,000 against $1,650,000 after 37 days. Four sales is a small sample, and the split describes what happened rather than a rule.

One thing shapes what the live module higher up this page can show: it reads BrightMLS, and some homes in Bedens Brook Estates, including on Green Meadow Road, are listed and settle on GSMLS instead, so a BrightMLS-only view understates how often the community actually turns over. Anyone researching Bedens Brook Estates from one MLS feed, buyer or seller, is working from an incomplete picture of its turnover.