Condos & Townhomes
for Sale in Maple Shade NJ

Condos and Townhomes in Maple Shade

Almost no township in Burlington County has real condominiums — not a converted building or two, but purpose-built communities with hundreds of units in them. Maple Shade has three, all of them put up within about a year of each other in 1972 and 1973, and together they represent close to the last genuinely low cost of entry to homeownership anywhere in this corner of the county. If you have been renting and running the numbers, this page is where the math starts working.

The three are structured the same way and it is worth knowing before you search. Watergate is every unit at 115 East Kings Highway. Valley Glen is every unit at 411 Stiles Avenue. The Clusters of Lexton is every unit at 25 South Church Road. One address per community, unit numbers after it. A street-name search finds nothing here, and a portal that organizes by neighborhood will show you a fraction of what is actually available. All three are one- and two-bedroom flats with some interior rows mixed in, and across all three there are essentially no garages and no basements. That is the trade for the price, and it is the thing suburban buyers underestimate: storage has to be planned for.

Where they genuinely differ is the fee, and the differences are large enough to change which one is actually cheaper to own. Watergate is the one to understand first. A substantial share of Watergate units include heat and gas in the association fee, and a number include water and sewer on top of that. Its monthly runs above Valley Glen's — and it should, because it is absorbing utility bills that a Valley Glen owner pays separately. Compare the two on the fee alone and you will reach the wrong conclusion. Run heat into both and the gap narrows sharply, and for a buyer on a fixed income a payment that does not move in January has value beyond its size.

The Clusters of Lexton carries the highest fees in the township, and it also delivers the most: sewer, water, a pool and a recreation facility, plus the exterior, grounds, management, snow and trash. It has the largest units of the three, including some three-bedroom plans, and one back-to-back layout you will not find elsewhere in Maple Shade. Whether the premium is worth it comes down to a single honest question — will you use the pool. If yes, it is the best value here. If no, you are funding an amenity you walk past.

Valley Glen is the lean option and the least expensive way into the township. Its fees are the lowest of the three by a wide margin, covering sewer and water on most units along with the grounds and, on some, lawn and snow. No pool, no clubhouse. For a first purchase where the priority is the smallest possible all-in monthly, Valley Glen is the answer, and it is the community first-time buyers most often land in. Worth noting it also contains a small number of newer units built as recently as 2022, which is unusual in a complex of this vintage.

Across all three, coverage varies unit to unit even inside the same building — two Watergate listings can include different things at similar monthlies. There is no such thing as "the Watergate fee." Read the specific listing, and if it is not spelled out, ask before you write an offer. In a market where the fee can be a meaningful share of the monthly payment, that one question is worth more than anything you will notice on a walkthrough.

Outside the three complexes there is a thin scattering of attached housing — twins from 1900 and 2003 near North Coles Avenue and Holly Avenue with basements and no association at all. Those come up rarely, and for a buyer who wants no monthly obligation and does not mind maintaining everything themselves, they are worth watching for.

On schools, Maple Shade runs its own district PreK through twelve, and it works differently from most districts around it in a way nobody should discover after closing. Elementary students attend one of the township's three elementary schools, including Ralph J. Steinhauer. Then from seventh grade, students go to Maple Shade High School on Frederick Avenue — the Wildcats, opened in 1972 — which serves grades seven through twelve. There is no separate middle school. A seventh grader here walks into the high school building. Some families see that as an advantage and some want to think about it; either way it is worth knowing up front.

Location is one of this township's real strengths. The Route 73 and 38 interchange is right here, I-295 and the Turnpike are minutes out, Philadelphia is a short run across the Betsy Ross, and the Moorestown Mall and the Route 38 retail corridor are effectively next door. For a short commute and a low entry price in the same package, the options in this county are thin.

If a flat is not quite it, Maple Shade's ranch homes give you single-level living detached and on your own lot in Alden Park, Poplar Grove and the other established neighborhoods, and four-plus bedroom homes covers the larger detached stock. Homes under $300K takes in most of this attached market and a good share of the detached side, and just listed catches new inventory first. To see what has closed rather than what is asking, start with recent Maple Shade closings or the market report.