Queenston Common

Queenston Common is a townhouse community in Princeton, Mercer County, carrying the 08540 ZIP code, and it is unusually consistent for a Princeton address: every unit on record was built in 1973, spread across Gordon Way, Cameron Court, and Mershon Drive. Closings over the trailing twenty-four months ran from $735,000 to $1,115,000, with a median near $901,000, and that spread is not random. The monthly association fee is high, roughly $590 to $761 depending on the unit, and that number is the honest tradeoff for an in-town Princeton location and for the work the association takes off an owner's hands. Buyers who understand both the price split and the fee tend to make much better decisions here than buyers working from a single headline number.

The homes

Every home in Queenston Common on record was built in 1973, which makes the community easier to read than most Princeton neighborhoods: buyers are comparing units of the same vintage rather than homes built decades apart. Floor plans are multi-level, and above-grade space runs roughly 1,704 to 2,154 square feet, mostly two and three bedrooms with an occasional four-bedroom unit among recent sales. Both interior and end units trade. The variation that matters is in the details rather than the era. Some units have a one-car garage and several have none, and basements range from none at all to fully finished, so two units of similar size can offer meaningfully different usable space. Because the housing stock shares a single 1973 vintage, condition and updating do most of the pricing work. A unit with an updated kitchen, newer mechanical systems, and a finished lower level separates itself quickly from an original one of the same footprint, and buyers should look closely at what has and has not been replaced since the community was built.

Setting and location

Queenston Common sits on Gordon Way, Cameron Court, and Mershon Drive in Princeton's 08540 ZIP code, an in-town location rather than an outlying one, and that is the core of its appeal. Nassau Street at Harrison Street is roughly a quarter mile away, about a five-minute walk, and Princeton Shopping Center is a walk of roughly fifteen minutes. Downtown Princeton and the Princeton University campus are within easy reach on foot or by a short drive. Listing remarks across multiple sales describe the community in exactly these terms: within walking distance of Nassau Street, the Princeton Shopping Center, and Princeton public schools. The association maintains a shared pool and tennis courts for residents. For drivers, Princeton Junction station and NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor service to New York are about fifteen minutes away by car, which keeps the community workable for commuters who still want to live inside Princeton rather than along the corridor.

Schools

Queenston Common is served by Princeton Public Schools, and that district assignment is a large part of why buyers look here at all. Students attend Princeton Middle School and Princeton High School, both roughly a mile from the community. Elementary assignment is the piece to verify rather than assume. Local sources have long placed Queenston Common in the Littlebrook Elementary attendance zone, but Princeton Public Schools is expanding elementary capacity and has indicated that redistricting will follow, so any buyer choosing a home for a specific elementary school should confirm the current assignment directly with the district before writing an offer. Littlebrook Elementary itself is a little over a mile from the community, a short drive or a long walk rather than a doorstep distance, while the middle and high schools are closer.

Market position

The trailing twenty-four months produced nine closings in Queenston Common, from $735,000 to $1,115,000, with a median near $901,000. For a community this small, nine sales in two years is real liquidity, and the pace backs it up: most of those homes went under contract within about two weeks of listing, with one outlier that took 85 days. The median alone hides the more useful pattern. The two smallest units, both two-bedroom and about 1,704 square feet, closed at $735,000 and $807,500. Every three-bedroom unit closed between $901,000 and $1,115,000, with the most recent sale, 20 Gordon Way in July 2026, at the top of that range. A four-bedroom end unit closed at $850,000 in between, a reminder that bedroom count and square footage do not settle the price on their own. Pricing a unit here starts with which of those groups it belongs to, then adjusts for garage, basement finish, and condition. The monthly fee of $590 to $761 belongs in the same conversation, because a buyer working to a monthly budget weighs that number against the mortgage, and sellers who understand how buyers do that math price more accurately from the start.