Westfield, NJ | A Great American Main Street
An Award-Winning Downtown Around Its Own Raritan Valley Station, Wychwood's Lanes and the Hometown Charles Addams Drew
Westfield Real Estate | A Million-and-a-Half Median on Main Street
Buyers searching Westfield NJ homes for sale met a median sale price of $1.5 million over the three months ending August 2026 per Redfin ZIP 07090 data, up 16.1 percent year over year, with homes averaging two offers, selling in about 15 days at $580 per square foot on a Redfin Compete Score of 92. In the window ending June 2026, the average sale closed at 108.9 percent of list, 81.0 percent of homes sold above asking, only 7.7 percent of listings took a price drop, and 97 homes closed in June alone, with typical homes going about 8 percent over list and the hottest about 18 percent over in 11 days.
The late-summer tape shows how that market behaves tier by tier. A Willow Grove Road four-bedroom listed at $1,050,000 and closed at $1,250,000 in August 2026, 19 percent over asking after a patient 116 days, a Norwood Drive four-bedroom went 14 percent over to $850,625 in September, and a Colonial Avenue four-bedroom closed 9 percent over at $1,800,000. A North Wickom Drive three-bedroom closed at $985,715 in September with zero days on market. The top of the ladder negotiates: a seven-bedroom on East Broad Street closed at $2,900,000 against a $2,999,999 list, a Lincoln Road five-bedroom closed exactly at its $1,695,000 ask, and a Lawrence Avenue five-bedroom took $1,670,000 against $1,750,000. In Wychwood, the town's storied planned enclave, the three-month median ran $1.75 million.
The town behind those numbers is a 6.7-square-mile Union County community of approximately 31,032 residents about 16 miles southwest of Manhattan, settled in 1720 as the west fields of Elizabethtown and carrying three centuries of layers since: a circa-1740 farmhouse that still runs as a living museum, a downtown that won the Great American Main Street Award from the National Trust in 2004, and the childhood blocks of cartoonist Charles Addams, which the whole town celebrates every October. The Westfield station of NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line sits at the center of that downtown, 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.
The Allison Ziefert Real Estate Group, a Compass team serving Westfield from its Millburn office, brings 25+ years of combined experience, more than 500 five-star reviews and street-by-street market knowledge to a market where a 19-percent-over closing and a five-percent-under closing happened the same month. Reach the team at (917) 751-0448 or hello@njfromatoz.com.
What to Love About Westfield
A Great American Main Street, Officially
Westfield's downtown is not just locally beloved; the National Trust gave it the Great American Main Street Award in 2004, and the Downtown Westfield Corporation has managed the special improvement district's storefront rows ever since. Hundreds of shops, restaurants and services run along East Broad, Elm, Quimby and Central, the Raritan Valley Line station sits in the middle of it all, and the roster keeps renewing: a new French bistro opened on Quimby Street in September 2026. Few New Jersey downtowns put this much commerce within a walk of the platform.
The Addams October
Charles Addams, the cartoonist who created The Addams Family, was born in Westfield in 1912, and his boyhood home at 522 Elm Street is a locally designated landmark. Every October since 2018 the town has thrown AddamsFest, a month-long celebration that floats a Halloween house on Mindowaskin Pond, paints the Wicked Windows of downtown storefronts and fills galleries with original Addams work on loan from his foundation. It is a town-scale inside joke that doubles as one of the state's most distinctive fall traditions.
Mindowaskin and the Lenape Names
Mindowaskin Park's 12.6 acres sit directly across from the municipal building, with the pond, the gazebo, memorial gardens and an accessible playground anchoring the downtown's green edge. Tamaques Park spreads 106 acres of fields and trails on the south side, Brightwood Park keeps a wooded preserve, and the names themselves, Mindowaskin, Tamaques, Lenape Park and the Indian Forest section, carry the Lenape presence that preceded every later layer of the town.
A Seat on the Raritan Valley Line
Westfield station sits at the center of the downtown, 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, about 16 miles away. The town's commuting rhythm is built around that walk to the platform, which is exactly why the downtown blocks and the in-town streets price the way they do.
Three Centuries on the West Fields
Settled in 1720 as the west fields of Elizabethtown, a township by 1794 and the Town of Westfield since 1903, the town keeps its layers in working order. The circa-1740 Miller-Cory House at 614 Mountain Avenue, acquired by the Westfield Historical Society in 1971, still runs as a volunteer-staffed living museum with hearth-cooking demonstrations, and it carries local, state and national historic designations at once.
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Ask the teamWestfield Sub-Areas and Price Ranges | A Buyer's Guide
Buyers comparing houses for sale in Westfield NJ shop a deep market in four bands, from the condominiums near the platform to the planned lanes of Wychwood.
Wychwood and the Estate Streets | Wychwood Westfield NJ
Searches for Wychwood Westfield NJ point at the town's storied planned enclave of winding lanes and estate-scale lots, where the three-month median ran $1.75 million through mid-2026 and a five-bedroom on Woodland Avenue closed at exactly that figure in June, three percent under its list. The estate tier runs beyond the enclave itself: a Lawrence Avenue five-bedroom took $1,670,000 in August, a Colonial Avenue four-bedroom went nine percent over to $1,800,000, and a seven-bedroom on East Broad Street set the season's top at $2,900,000. Buyers searching Westfield NJ luxury homes shop this band, roughly $1.6 million to $2.9 million and up, where negotiation returns and preparation still sets the ceiling.
The Downtown Blocks
The streets around the station and the main street rows carry Westfield's walk-to-everything living: condominiums, townhouses and compact in-town houses where the platform, the restaurants and Mindowaskin Park replace the second car. Condominium and townhouse prints have run from the $500,000s, a three-bedroom on Downer Street closed at $829,000 in August 2026, and October inventory included a West Broad Street listing at $930,000. Expect roughly $500,000 to $950,000, with the walk itself priced in.
The Colonial and Tudor Grid
Most of Westfield is the colonial and Tudor fabric fanning out from the center of town, and in 2026 this band carried the premiums. The Willow Grove Road sale went 19 percent over its $1,050,000 list to $1,250,000, a Norwood Drive four-bedroom went 14 percent over to $850,625, and a North Wickom Drive three-bedroom closed at $985,715 with zero days on market, the kind of pre-emptive sale a 15-day town produces. At the band's top, a Lincoln Road five-bedroom closed exactly at $1,695,000. Expect roughly $850,000 to $1.8 million, with condition deciding which side of list the closing lands on.
The Park Sides | Tamaques, Brightwood and Indian Forest
The blocks around Tamaques Park's 106 acres and the Brightwood preserve trade on green-space adjacency, and the Indian Forest section's wooded lanes price with the upper tier. A Rahway Avenue five-bedroom closed at exactly its $770,857 list in August 2026 after a patient 153 days, marking the band's entry, while park-side four-bedrooms run through the $1 millions. Expect roughly $770,000 to $1.3 million on the Tamaques side, with Indian Forest addresses reaching the estate band.
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Homes the Allison Ziefert Real Estate Group has listed and sold in Westfield.
Living in Westfield | Dining, Shopping and Outdoors
Dining
The downtown carries one of the area's deepest tables. Addams Tavern, named for the native son, serves wood-fired New American under vaulted ceilings on Elm Street, Chez Catherine has long held the French fine-dining slot on North Avenue, Limani Seafood Grill covers the raw bar and the whole fish, Le Bistrot Westfield brought a new Parisian menu to Quimby Street in September 2026, and Vicki's Diner keeps the counter tradition on East Broad.
Shopping
The award-winning downtown is the shopping trip: hundreds of storefronts along East Broad, Elm, Quimby and Central mix boutiques, specialty shops and services, with the Downtown Westfield Corporation programming events through the year. Cranford's downtown sits one town west for a second main-street day, and the county's Route 22 retail corridor runs along the north edge for the big-box errands.
Parks and Outdoors
Mindowaskin Park's 12.6 acres do the daily work downtown, with the pond, the gazebo and the playground across from the municipal building. Tamaques Park spreads 106 acres of ballfields, courts and trails on the south side, Brightwood Park keeps the quiet wooded loop, and Echo Lake Park, part of the Union County system, borders the town's north edge.
Westfield Schools | One Kindergarten, Six Elementaries
Westfield Public Schools runs a structure built around its neighborhoods: a central kindergarten at Lincoln Early Childhood Center, six neighborhood elementary schools for grades 1 to 5, Franklin, Jefferson, McKinley, Tamaques, Washington and Wilson, two intermediate schools for grades 6 to 8, Edison and Roosevelt, divided by a north-south boundary, and Westfield High School for grades 9 to 12. Washington Elementary School was honored by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2019 as one of nine New Jersey schools recognized that year as Exemplary High Performing. As displayed on GreatSchools in October 2026, Wilson, Washington and Franklin each rated 9 of 10 and Jefferson rated 8 of 10. Families should confirm current enrollment, placement and program details directly with the district, since offerings can change.
Westfield on the Map
- Within
- Union County
- ZIP code
- 07090
Landmarks on the map
- Mindowaskin Park
- Miller-Cory House Museum (614 Mountain Ave)
- Tamaques Park
- Westfield High School
- Westfield Memorial Library
- Westfield station (NJ Transit, Raritan Valley Line)
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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
378-380 Millburn Ave., 2nd Floor, Millburn, NJ 07041
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