Long Hill is one of the few towns in this part of New Jersey where the town-wide number tells the truth. Houses at $725,000 and at $925,000. 62 of the township’s 88 sales, and the whole middle of the market. Both closed at 106% of list, in 16 and 21 days. The township-wide reading of $806,000, 23 days and 105% is not an average of opposites; it is the market. The one genuine exception is the $540,000 segment, which closed at 101% over 47 days.
Data sourced from the Garden State MLS (GSMLS), August 2025 through July 2026.
Long Hill Township comprises the villages of Millington, Stirling and Gillette. They are neighbourhoods of one municipality, not separate towns. GSMLS reports them together as Long Hill Township, and every figure on this page covers all three.
Broken out by price, the township is unusually consistent from the low $700,000s upward:
| Bedrooms | Sales | Median sale | Avg days | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | $355,000 | 27 | 120% |
| 2 | 11 | $540,000 | 47 | 101% |
| 3 | 31 | $725,000 | 16 | 106% |
| 4 | 31 | $925,000 | 21 | 106% |
| 5+ | 14 | $1,180,000 | 21 | 103% |
| Township total | 88 | $806,000 | 23 | 105% |
The one-bedroom row is a single transaction, shown above for completeness. One sale cannot describe a segment and nothing on this page is built on it.
Houses around $725,000 are the fastest thing in Long Hill: 31 sales, 106% of list, sixteen days. That is a market where a listing is effectively decided in the first two weekends. The $925,000 band matched it on price discipline. Also 31 sales, also 106%. Taking 21 days. Between them those two bands are 62 of the township’s 88 sales. If you are buying or selling in Long Hill, this is almost certainly your market.
Above that, $1,180,000 stays strong. Fourteen sales at 103% in 21 days. The premium narrows, the pace does not. There is no soft high end here in the way there is in the Somerset Hills townships to the west.
The exception runs the other way. The $540,000 segment. Eleven sales. Closed at 101% of list and took 47 days, twice as long as anything above it. In a township where the middle sells in sixteen days, the entry level taking seven weeks is the single most useful fact on this page, and the section below explains what usually sits behind it.
Assume competition and assume speed. Sixteen to twenty-one days and 106% of list means the winning offer is above asking and is usually made within the first ten days of a listing going live. Have your financing documented and your decision-makers available before you start touring. In this band, the buyer who needs a second weekend to think loses.
This is the one part of Long Hill with genuine room. Forty-seven days on market and 101% of list means listings here sit long enough for a considered offer, an inspection with teeth, and a negotiation. Understand why it is slower before you assume it is a bargain: much of what trades at this level needs work, and the cost of that work is the real price.
Still a seller’s market at 103% over 21 days, but the bidding pressure is measurably lower than in the middle of the township. Terms and timing are more negotiable here than at $725,000.
Between $700,000 and $950,000 the strategy is straightforward and it is not to reach: the 106% outcomes come from concentrated attention in the first two weeks, and a price set above the market forfeits exactly that. Long Hill homes are bid up, not negotiated up. If you are selling at the entry level, plan for a longer runway. 47 days is the average, not the worst case, and be honest about condition, because that is what the pace at that price is measuring.
The 47-day, 101% result at $540,000 is not weak demand. It is condition, and lot size decides what happens next.
On a smaller lot, which describes much of the older housing in the village centres of Millington, Stirling and Gillette. A home needing significant work gets no premium. It sits, and it sells at or below asking. That is exactly what the entry-level numbers above are showing.
On a half acre or more, the same house is a completely different asset. It becomes a builder target, and the buyer is paying for land rather than for the house standing on it. With finished houses in this township trading at $725,000 to $925,000 and above, the arithmetic on a teardown or gut renovation works on the larger lots, and owners in that position are routinely priced off tired-house comparables and never find out what the land was worth.
Ryan Horvath is an agent with Prominent Properties Sotheby’s International Realty and a former licensed New Jersey general contractor. Having a vendor network that will put a real number on the work, and whether a lot carries builder value. Is the difference between those two outcomes. It also gives buyers a real warning: anyone shopping under $1 million on a large lot here is competing with builders, not just with other families.
Long Hill’s $806,000 median makes it one of the more accessible towns in its immediate area. Berkeley Heights, directly across the ridge in Union County, ran a $903,757 median at 106% of list. Nearly identical competitive conditions at roughly $100,000 more. Basking Ridge, in Bernards Township, sits at a $900,000 median and 103%. Morris Township, to the north, came in at $956,000 and 106%.
The more expensive alternatives behave differently, and the difference matters. Warren Township carries a $1,200,000 median but closed at only 100% of list over 45 days, and Watchung at $999,999 and 100% over 33 days. Both slower and less competitive than Long Hill despite costing more. For a genuinely cheaper option in the same county, Morristown’s $665,000 median at 104% buys a walkable town centre instead of a suburban lot. On the numbers, Long Hill offers a higher sale-to-list ratio and a faster market than the pricier towns around it, which is another way of saying demand here exceeds what the price level would suggest.
Long Hill is served by the Gladstone Branch of NJ Transit’s Morris & Essex Lines, and it has three stations inside the township. Millington, Stirling and Gillette. Most Gladstone Branch riders change at Summit for Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station. Having three stations in one small township is unusual, and it is a large part of why the $725,000 to $925,000 band moves as quickly as it does.
The Long Hill Township School District serves the township through the elementary and middle grades. For high school, Long Hill is one of the sending districts to Watchung Hills Regional High School in Warren Township. A regional school shared with several neighbouring municipalities rather than a Long Hill district school. Buyers comparing towns should confirm the current sending arrangement as part of their own diligence.
Long Hill Township sits in the southeastern corner of Morris County, bounded roughly by the Passaic River and the Watchung ridge, with Berkeley Heights, Warren, Harding and Chatham Township as neighbours. It is made up of the three villages. Millington, Stirling and Gillette. Each with its own small commercial cluster around its train station rather than a single central downtown.
The housing stock reflects that history: older, smaller homes on modest lots close to the station areas, and larger, newer houses on bigger parcels on the higher ground and toward the township’s edges. Much of the low-lying land along the river is protected open space, which limits new development and helps explain why 88 sales is a normal year here.
The median residential sale price in Long Hill Township was $806,000 across 88 sales recorded in GSMLS between August 2025 and July 2026, at an average of 23 days on market and 105% of list price.
A seller’s market through most of the township. The $725,000 and $925,000 bands. 62 of the 88 sales. Both closed at 106% of list, in 16 and 21 days. The one place a buyer has real room is around $540,000, where homes sold at 101% of list after an average of 47 days.
Forty-seven days at 101% of list, against sixteen days at 106% one step up, is usually a condition story rather than a demand story. Homes at that price more often need significant work, and on a smaller lot a dated house draws no premium. On a half acre or more the same property attracts builders, and the pricing conversation changes completely.
No. All three are villages within Long Hill Township, which is a single municipality in Morris County. Listings addressed to any of the three are Long Hill listings, and GSMLS reports them together, so the figures above cover all three.
Sales above $1,000,000 in Long Hill trigger New Jersey’s Graduated Percent Fee, formerly the “mansion tax.” Since July 10, 2025 it is paid by the seller rather than the buyer, starting at 1% of the entire sale price and rising with price. Because the rate steps up at fixed thresholds, a sale crossing one by a small margin can cost more than it gains. See the New Jersey mansion tax seller’s guide for the brackets and where the thresholds fall.
Market data derived from Garden State MLS (GSMLS), August 2025 through July 2026. Statistics reflect residential sales and are not a guarantee of future results.
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