Siena Homes for Sale

Living in Siena

Siena sits in the 08003 section of Cherry Hill Township, west of Springdale Road on a network of looping streets set back off the main road. The streets are Renaissance Drive, Cameo Drive, Cameo Court, Artisan Way, Collage Lane, Gallery Lane, St. Moritz Lane and Geneva Lane. Detached houses on large lots, laid out so that no street carries through traffic.

This is the top of the Cherry Hill market. Siena holds the largest houses in the township — the ceiling here runs past 5,000 square feet, which is well beyond what even the other high-end pockets reach, and the rest of the neighborhood runs 3,100 and up rather than down. Four and five bedrooms, bath counts to four full and beyond, Traditional, Colonial and Contemporary forms with attached garages. If you are shopping the very top of this township, the list of addresses is short and most of it is here.

The vintage is part of why. Siena went up in the mid-to-late nineties, which in Cherry Hill terms is nearly the end of the line — the township was effectively built out by then, and a tract of this size with houses of this scale is close to the last thing that happened here. Buyers who want nineties or newer construction in Cherry Hill are choosing between this and Short Hills a few minutes east, and the difference between them is scale: Short Hills is a large neighborhood of large houses, Siena is a smaller one of bigger ones.

The naming is Italian Renaissance and it runs all the way through. Renaissance, Cameo, Artisan, Collage, Gallery — the vocabulary of Florentine workshops, with St. Moritz and Geneva picked up on the western edge for good measure. Siena itself is the Tuscan hill town. It is a developer's theme rather than local history, but it is a consistent one, and it tells you exactly what was being sold here in 1996.

Practically, the lots are the other half of the value. These are wide parcels with real separation between houses, and a notable share of them carry in-ground pools — more than any comparable neighborhood in the township. The pool home searches will surface them faster than driving the streets, and buyers who want more ground still generally widen into the larger-acreage listings across Cherry Hill. At this level people also tour Kressonshire and Olde Springs, which offer wooded seventies and eighties alternatives at similar money.

One thing worth confirming on any address near the eastern edge. An attached-housing development sits immediately northeast along Custom House Lane, close enough that a listing described as "off Springdale" could mean either, and it is a different product entirely. Ask about the community by name rather than by the road.

Schools are Cherry Hill Township Public Schools, and the listings here carry Cherry Hill High School East. Springdale Road runs north to Kresson Road and the Route 70 corridor, with the Route 73 interchange and Marlton a few minutes beyond — well positioned without any of it reaching the neighborhood's own streets. The recently sold homes across Cherry Hill are the clearest read on where this tier actually settles.