Village Grande at Camelot Homes for Sale

Living in Village Grande at Camelot

Village Grande at Camelot is the largest age-restricted community in Glassboro and one of the largest in this part of Gloucester County. It sits off Ellis Mill Road on the eastern side of the borough, built around Grande Boulevard with Heritage Loop, Field Loop, Weatherby Lane, Whitall Road, Summit Street, Digiovanni Lane, Sturgess Court, Smortz Lane, Quaker Lane, Leddon Lane and Corning Way filling in around it. Raccoon Creek and standing woods form the eastern boundary, working orchards run along the west, and there are ponds inside the community itself. A real number of these homes back to trees or fruit trees rather than to another roofline.

Scale is what this community offers that nothing else in the borough can. With well over a hundred homes and steady turnover, there is almost always something available and there is a genuine record of recent sales to price against — which matters more than people expect in a segment this thin. Glassboro's other age-restricted option, Reserves at Lake Oberst, is the small quiet one, and it carries an unusual age floor of forty-eight. Village Grande is a straightforward 55+ community. If you are in your late forties or early fifties, that difference decides which of the two you can actually buy in, and it is the first thing to sort out.

The homes are consistent in the way that matters most to this buyer. Every one is a detached single-story rancher — no stairs anywhere, no basements, built on slab with attached two-car front-entry garages. Two and three bedrooms, two full baths, running from around sixteen hundred and seventy square feet up past twenty-six hundred. Vinyl and stone exteriors, central air and natural gas heat throughout, public water and sewer. Inside, the pattern is open plans with a breakfast area off the kitchen, a primary suite with a walk-in closet and a full bath, and a second bedroom that most owners use as a guest room or office. Sunrooms, gas fireplaces, patios and awnings show up regularly.

What you are also buying is the association, and here that is a feature rather than a cost. The monthly covers lawn care and snow removal — the two things that make a detached house hard to keep as you get older — and it carries a clubhouse with a fitness center, an outdoor pool, tennis courts and an ongoing calendar of social activities. There is also a one-time contribution due at closing on top of the monthly, which is standard for a community of this kind but worth confirming for the specific home so it does not surprise you at the table.

Location is the practical argument. Ellis Mill Road runs east toward Harrison Township and Mullica Hill, Route 55 is minutes away for Philadelphia one direction and the shore the other, and Rowan University, Inspira Medical Center, shopping and restaurants are all a short drive. For someone with family scattered around South Jersey and Philadelphia, nearly everyone is reachable without a highway ordeal.

If the age restriction is not what you are after but single-level living is, the borough's ranch homes search widens the field considerably, and Willow Trace and Rolling Greens are the detached neighborhoods worth comparing. The borough's full age-restricted inventory puts both communities side by side. Homes here are served by Glassboro Public Schools. For where these have actually been landing, see recently sold homes or the Glassboro market report.