Montgomery Chase

Montgomery Chase is a Toll Brothers subdivision of detached colonials off US Route 206 in Montgomery Township, in the part of the township that maps label Harlingen, with a Belle Mead mailing address in the 08502 ZIP. The listing remarks across the streets keep reaching for the same vocabulary, and colonial is the word that recurs: brick fronts, two-story and grand foyers, conservatories, a first-floor office or den, cathedral ceilings in the family room. Two things about this neighborhood are commonly stated wrong, including by an earlier version of this page. The homes get summarized as a 3,500 to 5,000 square foot group, and our own records say the band starts lower. And a buyer who knows Montgomery mostly as a sewered township can assume the same here, when the records on these five homes point the other way, to on-site septic.

The homes

Our BrightMLS records for Montgomery Chase cover five homes, four built in 1995 and one in 1998. Every one is detached, on public water, four or five bedrooms, none of them age restricted. Above-grade square footage runs from 3,025 at 18 Montfort Drive, the home on the market now, to 4,976 at 19 Canaday Court. That low end is the correction worth making: the 3,500 to 5,000 square foot band this page used to quote leaves out two of the five, at 3,025 and 3,586 square feet. Toll Brothers is named as the builder in the listing copy for five separate homes on two of these streets, three of which are not among our own sales. One of them, 19 Canaday Court, describes itself as an expanded Buckingham model, and it is also the one with a first-floor in-law suite and a finished walkout basement. Finished basements, conservatories and first-floor offices recur across the group, and 38 Southfield Drive records a kitchen renovated in 2016. Lot size is not reported in BrightMLS for any of these five, so there is no honest neighborhood average to give, but two listings do document a number: a fully fenced one-acre lot at 38 Southfield Drive and a one-acre lot at 24 Montfort Drive. Association fees are likewise unreported, which means not stated rather than confirmed absent, so ask on the specific house.

Setting

The addresses in our records sit on three streets: Montfort Drive, Canaday Court and Southfield Drive. Montfort Drive runs east off US Route 206 and Canaday Court is a short cul-de-sac branching from it. Southfield Drive is a separate street about a third of a mile to the northwest; our records file 38 Southfield Drive under this subdivision, but that street carries house numbers well past it, so treat the boundary there as something to ask about rather than assume. Two of the five sales sit at the end of a cul-de-sac, 19 and 14 Canaday Court, and 24 Montfort Drive backs to preserved land. Route 206 is the road that carries you out of the neighborhood. One home here, 19 Canaday Court, sold with a resort-sized pool, which is that owner's improvement rather than a shared amenity. The utility picture is the part buyers most often get wrong. Water is public on all five, but sewer is not: two of the five records list septic sized to the bedroom count, the other three are logged as private rather than public sewer, and the active listing at 18 Montfort Drive is documented as a four bedroom septic, town verified. Montgomery Township puts roughly two thirds of its homes on public sanitary sewer and a third on private septic, and the evidence here places these streets in the septic third. The two one-acre lots those listings document are consistent with that. Confirm the system, its age and its last inspection on the specific house.

Schools

Every address here sits inside the Montgomery Township School District, whose offices are in Skillman. The structure is simpler than in some neighboring towns, and the simplicity is worth knowing before you shop: the district runs one school per grade band rather than two parallel tracks, so there is no street-by-street assignment puzzle. Children go to Orchard Hill Elementary School for preschool through grade 2, Village Elementary School for grades 3 and 4, Montgomery Lower Middle School for grades 5 and 6, Montgomery Upper Middle School for grades 7 and 8, and Montgomery High School for grades 9 through 12. In West Windsor a buyer has to check which side of a boundary a street falls on before writing an offer, because two middle schools and two high schools split the town. In Montgomery that question does not arise. Boundaries and grade configurations still get changed, so confirm the current assignment for a specific address with the district.

Market position

Four homes closed in Montgomery Chase in the past 24 months, at a median of $1,437,000, in a range from $1,350,000 at 14 Canaday Court to $1,537,500 at 19 Canaday Court. Treat that median as a snapshot rather than a trend line. Four is a thin sample, and three of the four closed inside a single month, August 2025, so the number describes one short stretch of last summer more than it describes the neighborhood. This page also declines to show you a sale-to-list ratio or a median days-on-market figure, for the same reason: the module that reports them wants five sales and there are four, so it holds back rather than dress up a small number. The individual sales are the more useful reading. 19 Canaday Court, the largest at 4,976 square feet, opened at $1,475,000 in 2024 and closed at $1,537,500 after eight days. 24 Montfort Drive opened and closed at the same figure, $1,439,000, in eleven days. 38 Southfield Drive opened at $1,399,000 and closed at $1,435,000 in fifteen. 14 Canaday Court opened at $1,300,000 and closed at $1,350,000 after 37 days, the longest of the four by a wide margin. One home is available now, 18 Montfort Drive at $1,249,000, and it is the smallest of the five at 3,025 square feet, which is the first thing to weigh against an asking price that sits below the closed range. With square footage spread from 3,025 to 4,976 and lot sizes unreported, a house-by-house comparison matters more here than a neighborhood median, and that is the work behind any number we recommend.