Union, NJ | Connecticut Farms and Liberty Hall
The Township Where 1780 Began, a First Governor's House on a University Campus, and the Most House per Dollar Next Door to Millburn
Union Real Estate | The Volume Market on the Team's Value Side
Buyers searching Union NJ homes for sale met a median sale price of $610,736 over the three months ending August 2026, up 5.3 percent year over year per Redfin ZIP 07083 data, in one of the deepest markets this team covers: 135 homes sold in August alone, up 14.3 percent, with a 19-day median market time, a 104.2 percent average sale-to-list ratio and 74.1 percent of homes selling above asking. Redfin scores Union Township 91 of 100, in its most competitive band, where typical homes go about 4 percent over list and the hottest about 9 percent over in 14 days. For clarity, this page covers Union Township in Union County, the 9-square-mile township of nearly 60,000 residents bordering Millburn, Maplewood and Springfield, not Union City in Hudson County; searches for union township nj homes for sale land here.
Recent sales are honestly mixed, which is what a high-volume market looks like. A four-bedroom at 920 Pennsylvania Avenue listed at $575,000 and closed at $610,000 in September 2026, 6 percent over asking in 56 days, and a Chestnut Street four-bedroom went 3 percent over to $595,000, while 1030 Sterling Road closed 4 percent under list at $615,000 and a Magie Avenue three-bedroom took an 85-day, 10-percent-under path to $495,000. Patience works both directions here: a Marcella Drive four-bedroom held 120 days and still closed a point over list at $705,000. The entry tier is real, too: a two-bedroom co-op unit on Bashford Avenue closed at $260,000 and a Tournament Drive condo at $375,000 in the same September window.
The township behind the volume carries more Revolutionary history per block than its price point suggests. This was Connecticut Farms, where the British invasion of June 1780 was first fought on June 7, sixteen days before it ended at Springfield next door, and where Hannah Caldwell's death at the Caldwell Parsonage put the township on the Union County seal itself. Liberty Hall, the 1772 home of William Livingston, New Jersey's first elected governor and a signer of the United States Constitution, still stands on Morris Avenue, now a museum on the campus of Kean University. The modern township around those landmarks offers Union Center's Stuyvesant Avenue downtown, NJ Transit train service to New York City from Union station across from Kean, Garden State Parkway exit 138, Route 22 and Interstate 78, and the most house per dollar anywhere on this team's coverage map next to Millburn.
The Allison Ziefert Real Estate Group, a Compass team serving Union from its Millburn office across the township line, brings 25+ years of combined experience, more than 500 five-star reviews and street-by-street market knowledge to a market where 135 homes traded in a single month. Reach the team at (917) 751-0448 or hello@njfromatoz.com.
What to Love About Union
Where 1780 Began
Before it was Union, this was Connecticut Farms, and on June 7, 1780 the British invasion of New Jersey met its first real fight here, sixteen days before it ended at Springfield next door. Militia and Continental detachments, including one under Colonel Elias Dayton, contested the advance through the village, and during the fighting Hannah Caldwell, the wife of army chaplain Rev. James Caldwell, was shot through a window of the Caldwell Parsonage. Her death appears on the Union County seal to this day; when the county moved to revise the seal in 2023, a resident petition kept it in place. The Parsonage at 909 Caldwell Avenue is now a museum, and the rebuilt Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church still anchors Stuyvesant Avenue.
Liberty Hall and Kean University
Liberty Hall, built on Morris Avenue in 1772, was the home of William Livingston, New Jersey's first elected governor and a signer of the United States Constitution, and today it operates as a museum on the campus of Kean University. Kean itself traces to 1855, gained university status in 1997 and brings a public research university's scale to the township, along with the county's Academy for Information Technology magnet high school on its campus.
Train Service to New York City
Union has its own NJ Transit train station. Union station opened in 2003 at 900 Green Lane, across from Kean University, on the Raritan Valley Line, with frequent service to Newark Penn Station, a quick transfer to New York Penn Station, and a limited schedule of direct one-seat trains to Manhattan. For drivers, Garden State Parkway exit 138, Route 22 and Interstate 78 all run through the township.
The Most House per Dollar Next to Millburn
Union's $610,736 median for the three months ending August 2026 sits directly against some of New Jersey's most expensive borders: Springfield posted $721,688 and Summit $1,654,284 in the same Redfin windows, and Millburn and Maplewood touch the township line. Nearly 60,000 residents make Union the most populous municipality on this team's coverage map, and its market depth means real choice at every tier, from a $260,000 co-op to colonials and splits through the $700,000s.
Union Center and Five Points
The downtown runs around the intersection of Morris and Stuyvesant Avenues, where Union Center's storefronts, restaurants and services make an everyday main street, and Five Points, the junction of Galloping Hill Road, Chestnut Street and four more, carries an institution: Galloping Hill Inn has served hot dogs and burgers from the same corner since 1925.
The County's Public 27
Galloping Hill Golf Course, Union County's flagship public course, spreads 27 holes along the township's eastern side, with the Fairway Drive streets bordering it and condo addresses like Tournament Drive trading on the name. Where Springfield next door holds the private landmark at Baltusrol, Union holds the public tee times, and the contrast says a lot about how this township works: the same geography, open to everyone, at half the price.
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Ask the teamUnion Sub-Areas and Price Ranges | A Buyer's Guide
Buyers comparing homes for sale in Union NJ shop a township of documented, named sections; the four bands below group them the way the market trades.
Union Center and Putnam Manor
The blocks around Morris and Stuyvesant Avenues hold the downtown and the township's civic spine, with Putnam Manor's residential streets nearby. Housing here is the classic Union mix of colonials, capes and split levels, and 2026 sales show the band's range: a four-bedroom at 262 Chestnut Street closed 3 percent over at $595,000 in September, while a Coolidge Avenue four-bedroom reached $690,000 earlier in the year. Expect roughly $500,000 to $700,000, with walkability to Union Center carrying a premium.
Battle Hill and Connecticut Farms
The township's western side carries its history in its street grid: Battle Hill occupies the high ground between Morris Avenue, the Rahway River and Route 22, and the Connecticut Farms section holds the church, the Parsonage and the historical markers along Stuyvesant and Caldwell Avenues. A four-bedroom at 920 Pennsylvania Avenue closed 6 percent over asking at $610,000 in September 2026, and a Marcella Drive four-bedroom closed at $705,000 after a patient 120 days. Expect roughly $525,000 to $725,000, with the Springfield and Millburn lines minutes away.
Vauxhall | Union's 07088
Vauxhall is the township's northern section with a ZIP code of its own, 07088, running along the Essex County line where Union meets Millburn and Maplewood. The housing is compact colonials, capes and two-families on walkable blocks, and the location is the quiet advantage: Millburn's downtown and train station and Maplewood's village sit minutes away across the line at a fraction of their price of entry. Buyers priced out of the Essex side increasingly shop here first.
Green Lane, Fairway Drive and the Condo Tier
The township's eastern side clusters around its institutions: the Green Lane area sits between Kean University and Union station, Fairway Drive borders the Galloping Hill Golf Course, and the condo and co-op tier concentrates here and along the corridors. September 2026 closings included a two-bedroom co-op on Bashford Avenue at $260,000 and a Tournament Drive condo at $375,000, with newer-construction condo listings on Sadie Circle active in October. This tier is one of the lowest-cost ownership doors on this team's entire map. Expect roughly $250,000 to $450,000 for the attached tier and $500,000 to $650,000 for nearby detached homes.
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Living in Union | Dining, Shopping and Outdoors
Dining
Galloping Hill Inn has anchored Five Points since 1925, a hot dog and burger institution now past its first century, and Union Center's Stuyvesant Avenue blocks carry the township's everyday restaurant row, with Van Gogh's Ear Cafe the long-running live-music spot at its heart. Route 22 adds the volume: diners, chains and quick stops along one of New Jersey's classic retail highways. Millburn's restaurant row and downtown Summit sit a short drive away for the dressed-up nights.
Shopping
Daily errands split between Union Center's storefronts and the Route 22 corridor, which runs straight through the township with groceries, home improvement and big-box retail. The Mall at Short Hills, including Eataly, which opened there in November 2024, is about fifteen minutes away, and Garden State Parkway exit 138 puts the rest of the region in reach.
Parks and Outdoors
Galloping Hill Golf Course spreads the county's public 27 holes along the eastern side, the Rahway River traces the township's western edge toward the same crossings the 1780 fighting followed into Springfield, and the county's Rahway River Parkway green corridor runs nearby. The Watchung Reservation and South Mountain Reservation both sit within a fifteen-minute drive, bracketing the township the way they bracket its pricier neighbors.
Union Schools | History in the School Names
Union Public Schools runs neighborhood elementary schools whose names read like the township's history lesson: Connecticut Farms, Hannah Caldwell, Battle Hill and Livingston among them, alongside Franklin and Washington. Students continue to the district's middle schools, Kawameeh and Burnet, and then to Union High School. As displayed on GreatSchools in October 2026, Livingston Elementary rated 7 of 10 and Kawameeh Middle School rated 7 of 10. The Academy for Information Technology, a Union County magnet high school located on the Kean University campus within the township, admits students from across the county by application. Families should confirm current enrollment, placement and program details directly with the district, since offerings can change.
Union on the Map
- Within
- Union County
- ZIP code
- 07083, 07088
Landmarks on the map
- Caldwell Parsonage (909 Caldwell Ave)
- Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church (888 Stuyvesant Ave)
- Galloping Hill Golf Course
- Kean University
- Liberty Hall Museum (1003 Morris Ave)
- Union High School
- Union station (900 Green Lane)
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Allison Ziefert Real Estate Group at Compass. Co-principals Allison Ziefert (NJ License 0999509) and Sarah "Ginge" Calhoun (NJ License 1650080)
Office
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