For more than 30 years, Maura Mills has advised buyers and sellers throughout Princeton, New Jersey, and the surrounding Greater Princeton area. Her work is grounded in comprehensive market knowledge, a keen sense of value and pricing, thoughtful preparation, skillful negotiation, and uncompromising attention to detail.
Her record reflects sustained performance across changing markets and extensive experience with Princeton's distinctive homes, neighborhoods, and higher-value properties.
Advising buyers and sellers in Princeton and the Greater Princeton area
Closed Greater Princeton sales volume in 2025
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Top-producing Callaway Henderson Sotheby's International Realty sales associate by dollar volume
RealTrends Verified, America's 2026 Best Real Estate Professionals
2026 RealTrends individual agent ranking by sales volume
2026 RealTrends individual agent ranking by sales volume
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Sales volume is an important measure of experience, but it does not tell the entire story. Maura's work includes advising clients on valuation, property preparation, presentation, timing, offer strategy, inspections, and the many decisions that arise between an initial conversation and closing.
Her experience encompasses Princeton's Western Section, the Institute area, downtown Princeton, and other established neighborhoods including Riverside, Littlebrook, Edgerstoune, and the Tree Streets, as well as townhome communities and the surrounding Greater Princeton market. She has also worked extensively with Princeton University-affiliated buyers and sellers, including clients relocating to or from the area.
Princeton is the center of Maura's practice, and her experience also extends to Lawrence Township, Pennington, Hopewell, Montgomery, and other nearby communities. These markets are connected by the choices buyers make, the homes they compare, and the ways location, condition, land, architecture, and price influence perceived value.
Maura brings long familiarity with the inventory and patterns of buyer behavior across the area. More importantly, she applies the judgment developed through more than 30 years of successful representation: identifying a home's true competitive set, assessing value, recommending preparation, developing a pricing strategy, anticipating buyer response, and negotiating from a well-informed position.
That combination of local knowledge and broad experience allows Maura to advise clients successfully throughout the Greater Princeton area while maintaining Princeton as the primary focus of her business.
Maura's buyer representation includes identifying opportunities both within and outside the publicly marketed inventory. She has successfully located and helped clients purchase Princeton-area homes that were not publicly offered, using targeted outreach and longstanding relationships with agents throughout the local brokerage community.
Her reputation as an experienced, responsive professional can strengthen communication in a competitive market. It helps her pursue potential opportunities efficiently, obtain information that may appropriately be shared, communicate a buyer's qualifications and priorities credibly, and keep negotiations moving. These relationships do not guarantee access or replace competitive terms, but together with Maura's valuation and negotiating experience, they can place a well-prepared buyer in a stronger position.
Clients moving to or from Princeton frequently need experienced representation in another part of the country or abroad. Through Sotheby's International Realty's global network and professional relationships developed over many years, Maura can introduce clients to carefully selected agents with relevant local, property-type, and price-range experience.
Many of these are agents Maura knows personally or through established professional relationships. This allows her to make a more considered introduction, communicate the client's priorities with permission, and help coordinate decisions when a Princeton sale or purchase is connected to a move elsewhere. Clients receive the benefit of specialized knowledge in the other market while retaining continuity with an advisor who already understands their circumstances and goals.
Princeton's higher-value market includes historic architecture, important locations, significant land, newer construction, and homes whose value cannot be assessed through square footage or automated estimates alone. Maura brings extensive experience evaluating these differences and translating them into clear pricing, preparation, and negotiating advice.
Her average sale price has exceeded $2 million in recent years, reflecting substantial experience with the expectations, complexity, and discretion often required at this level of the market.
RealTrends Verified recognized Maura as one of America's 2026 Best Real Estate Professionals, placing her among the top 1,000 individual agents nationwide by sales volume. She ranked No. 18 in New Jersey and No. 834 nationwide.
Maura has also earned the NJ REALTORS Circle of Excellence Sales Award at the Platinum level each year from 2012 through 2025 and has received the Five Star Real Estate Agent Award every year from 2011 through 2026.
The Five Star Professional program considers consumer evaluations together with objective eligibility criteria related to licensing, experience, production, and regulatory and complaint history.
For 13 of the last 14 years, Maura has been the top-producing sales associate at Callaway Henderson Sotheby's International Realty by dollar volume. That consistency reflects a long-standing client base built largely through personal referrals and repeat business.
A graduate of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and a former vice president at Shearson Lehman Hutton, Maura began her real estate career as Sales and Marketing Director for The Yedlin Company, a Princeton custom builder. Her background in finance, construction, and design informs her approach to valuation, preparation, and the presentation of a home.
Maura provides concierge-level service through direct, personal involvement from the first conversation through closing. Clients rely on Maura herself for the advice, strategy, preparation, communication, negotiation, and oversight that shape the outcome.
She remains closely involved in the details, coordinates the many moving parts, and is available when questions or unexpected issues arise. This continuity allows every recommendation to reflect a clear understanding of the client's priorities, the property, and the decisions already made together.
Maura's role is to help clients make well-informed decisions. That begins with listening carefully, understanding the priorities behind a move, and providing candid advice supported by current market evidence and decades of experience.
Whether selling, buying, or simply considering your options, Maura welcomes a conversation about your real estate goals.
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