857 homes and apartments are planned
on Lumberton farmland.
By Justin Kelly
NJ Real Estate Broker-Salesperson
D.R. Horton filed its plans a week after Lumberton Township picked the company in August. The Land Development Board reviewed them on September 10, and the township has not posted the meeting minutes or the board's written decision.
What was reported
- Lumberton Township picked D.R. Horton to build the project on August 6, 2026, and the builder filed its plans a week later
- The plan is 506 market rate townhouses, 179 age restricted townhouses and 172 affordable apartments, as reported by 70and73
- Burlington County approved spending up to $3.73 million to preserve 226 acres at the southern end of the same property
The story
The plan is called Lumberton Village: 857 homes and apartments on the farmland and woods at Newbolds Corner and Eayrestown roads in Lumberton Township. The Township Committee picked D.R. Horton to build it and adopted the redevelopment agreement on August 6, 2026. The builder filed its plans on August 13, and the town's Land Development Board took them up at its September 10 meeting. The township has not posted the minutes or the board's written decision, so how the board voted is not public yet.
70and73 reports 506 market rate townhouses, 179 age restricted townhouses, 92 affordable family apartments and 80 age restricted affordable apartments. Property taxes here work two ways, one for the affordable apartments and one for the age restricted townhouses. For 30 years the affordable apartments would make payments to the township instead of paying regular property taxes. The 179 age restricted townhouses get a five year break on property taxes instead. 70and73 put the project cost at $77 million. The same report says the township's affordable housing lawyer told residents Lumberton is moving ahead because of a court order.
A large part of the property would not be built on. In June the Burlington County Commission approved up to $3.73 million for 226 acres at the south end of the development site. That money would buy the land through the Farmland Preservation program and keep it in farming, according to 70and73. The township's page says Lumberton picked this site for the new homes so farms in the southern part of the township could stay farms.
The township's Eayrestown Road Development page carries the project's timeline. The town studied the site in 2017 and adopted a plan in 2018 for 629 homes, 95 of them affordable. In December 2025 the township adopted an amended plan for the same property. The application in front of the board is for 857 homes, up from 629 in the 2018 plan. New Jersey tracks a town's affordable housing in numbered rounds, and the homes here count toward Lumberton's third and fourth rounds. The state approved the wetlands permit on August 28, 2026.
More steps come after the board, including the tax agreement, filing the new lots with the county clerk, construction plans, the bonds the builder posts, a soil erosion permit and the building permits. Those steps are still ahead, which is why these 857 homes are planned and not yet being built.
Summary of the Township of Lumberton's own record of the Eayrestown Road redevelopment and of reporting by 70and73. Plans, approvals and schedules can change. South Jersey New Construction does not represent this project. Written by Justin Kelly, NJ Real Estate Broker-Salesperson, from the Lumberton Township the township's project record.
Our take
Lumberton has about 5,000 homes, and this plan adds 857 more to what buyers can choose from and what sellers are priced against. If you own here, that shows up in comparable sales before the first house is finished.
