Colts Neck Homes for Sale

Living in Colts Neck

Colts Neck was built through the 1980s — 1983 to 1989 — in Washington Township, on the Sewell side. The street names run with the theme end to end: Long Bow Drive, Trapper Road, Saddlebrook Drive, Pony Run, Stag Run and Bridle Lane. Four bedrooms is the standard here, two full baths and a half, colonials with a few contemporaries mixed in. Garages on most homes, public water and public sewer.

One thing to get straight before you search: this is not the Colts Neck most people mean. There is a Colts Neck Township in Monmouth County — New Jersey's actual horse country, an hour and a half north of here and an entirely different market. Type "Colts Neck NJ homes for sale" into a search bar and that is what you get. This Colts Neck is a neighborhood inside Washington Township, Gloucester County, and it does not show up unless you look for it here.

The feature to check on every listing is the basement. Most homes in Colts Neck do not have one, which is genuinely unusual for four-bedroom colonials of this era and price in this township — Bateman Farms, built only a few years later on the same side of town, has them on nearly every house. If storage or finished lower-level space matters to you, that is the first filter to apply here rather than the last.

The lots are modest and fairly consistent — most sit right around a fifth of an acre, with a few running to a third. This is a walkable, tightly-laid-out neighborhood rather than an estate-lot community; the value here is in the house and the district, not the land. Turnover is steady enough that something is usually available, which is not true of every established community in this township.

Schools are Washington Township for the entire township, which means Washington Township High School — one district throughout, so there is no sending-district question to work out. The township's recently sold homes are the best read on where this part of the market sits.