Cape Meadows
55+ Homes for Sale

Living in Cape Meadows

Cape Meadows is a year-round adult community of manufactured homes in Erma, in Lower Township. Its homes sit on Lilly Pond Drive and Meadow View Lane, and listings describe it as a 55+ community conveniently located between Cape May and the Wildwoods. Property records place these streets in Lower Township, not Middle Township, even though older listings sometimes mixed the two up.

The homes are mostly two-bedroom manufactured homes with one or two baths, many built in the mid-2000s, and the largest model in the park has three bedrooms and two baths. Listings describe updated kitchens, decks, gas heat, and in at least one home a heated and air-conditioned sunroom that adds living space all year. Every home nearby is on the Erma page.

The location is what makes it work. Erma sits inland in the middle of Lower Township, close to Route 9, the Garden State Parkway and the Cape May Airport area, with the beaches of Cape May, the Wildwoods and the Delaware Bay all a short drive away. Everyday shopping in Rio Grande is a few minutes north. The Lower Township market report shows the trend.

Ask how ownership works before you fall for a home. Confirm whether the land is owned or leased, what any monthly fee or ground rent covers, how the age rule is applied, and how the community approves new residents. Financing a manufactured home can differ from a regular mortgage, so line that up early. The township's manufactured homes page explains more.

Cape Meadows is one of a few communities like this in Lower Township. Bayshore Woods and Shawcrest are the others to compare, and the Lower Township ranch homes search covers one-level houses on owned lots.

Health care and shopping are close. Rio Grande's Route 9 corridor has the supermarkets and pharmacies, and Cape Regional, the county's hospital, is in Cape May Court House, about fifteen minutes north. The Garden State Parkway is close by for trips home to North Jersey or Philadelphia.

Erma itself is a quiet, inland part of Lower Township, with the Cape May Airport area, the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum and the Cape May National golf course nearby. It is a practical, year-round place to live rather than a resort, which is exactly what most Cape Meadows owners are looking for.

Buyers here are usually looking for the same thing: a simple, affordable one-level home in a community of people their own age, close to the beaches and the services of the lower Cape. Homes come up a few at a time, so it pays to watch this page and the Lower Township manufactured homes search together.

If nothing is listed above, the recent sales below show what homes in Cape Meadows have sold for. The recent Lower Township closings give the wider picture.