Heatherwood 55+ Homes for Sale

Living in Heatherwood

Heatherwood is an age-restricted 55+ community in Washington Township, on the Sewell side, built between 2002 and 2004. The streets are Chew Lane, Caserta Drive, Copeland Court, Sickler Court, Stiles Court, Fisher Court and Pleasant Valley Drive. Two bedrooms and two baths is the standard, with three-bedroom plans available. Public water and public sewer.

The distinguishing feature here is that these are detached single-family homes, not attached carriage homes or condos. In most age-restricted communities the trade for low maintenance is a shared wall; at Heatherwood you keep the free-standing house. Ranchers dominate — true one-level living — with carriage houses, lofts and contemporaries in the mix for buyers who want a second floor without needing it.

The lots are small and deliberately so. Nearly every parcel here measures about an eighth of an acre, repeating address after address. That is the design: enough ground for the house and a patio, not enough to become a weekend obligation. The association fee handles common area maintenance, lawn care, snow removal and insurance, with cable and an all-ground fee on many homes.

What that combination buys is genuinely uncommon in this county — a detached house, on one floor, with nothing outside the walls to maintain, in the Washington Township district. Most communities offering the maintenance package require you to give up the detached house to get it. Heatherwood does not, and that is the reason to look here rather than at attached 55+ product elsewhere.

This is also among the newest established communities in the township. Where most of Washington Township was built between 1965 and 1990, Heatherwood arrived in the early 2000s, which means modern systems, modern layouts and modern insulation rather than a renovated 1968 split. Turnover is steady enough that something is usually available. Bateman Farms and Bon-Aire are the conventional alternatives on this side of the township if the age restriction is not what you want.

Schools are Washington Township for the whole township — not the reason most buyers come here, but it holds the resale value for whoever comes next. The recently sold homes across the township show where this end of the market sits.