O'Neil Property Group
The area’s flagship acreage community — 175 one-acre-plus lots of custom homes west of Millbrook Road, with more than four miles of private nature trails and a $350-a-year HOA. Recent sales ran $535K to $630K.
Estates of Millbrook is what most people picture when they ask me about acreage living near Newark: 175 custom homes on one-acre-plus lots, connected by more than four miles of private nature trails, sitting in unincorporated Kendall County just west of Millbrook Road and south of Rogers Road. The mailing address says Newark 60541, the adjacent village is Millbrook, and the setting is pure countryside — which is exactly why buyers from the bigger Route 34-corridor towns keep finding their way here.
The core of the community went up between roughly 2003 and 2005, with individual custom builds rather than a single production builder, and infill construction continues on the remaining lots — a 2025-built home on North Stonewall Drive sold for $609,000 in April 2026. Homes run from about 2,400 to 5,400 square feet, most with three to five bedrooms, three-car garages, and the kind of lot-to-lot variety you only get when every house was designed for its site. The HOA is refreshingly light at $350 a year, funding the trail network and common grounds without dictating daily life.
The market here is the most active of any Newark-area subdivision — around 15 sales closed in 2025 at a median near $587,000, with recent closings between $535,000 and $630,000 and an active listing at $849,000 testing the top of the range. Buildable lots have recently traded from about $35,000 to $142,000, so buyers can still choose between resale and building new. For what a comparable custom home on an acre costs in the established estate corridors east of Route 47, this community remains one of the better values in the county.
Pricing reflects Estates of Millbrook sales and active listings as of mid-2026.
The established market: custom two-stories and ranches from the 2003–2005 wave, roughly 2,400–5,400 square feet on one-acre-plus lots. Around 15 sales closed in 2025 at a median near $587K — the deepest, most consistent acreage market in the Newark area.
See listings →Remaining one-acre-plus lots for custom builds, with community roads, utilities access, and the trail network already in place. Recent lot sales spanned $35K to $142K depending on size and setting.
See listings →Custom builds continue on open lots — a 2025-completed home sold for $609K in spring 2026, and an active $849K listing is testing the ceiling. Building here means joining an established community rather than waiting for one to grow in.
See listings →Every active Estates of Millbrook listing, updated in real time from the MLS.
The community’s signature amenity: a resident trail network winding through common grounds and open space between the platted lots — walking, running, and riding out your front door rather than a drive away.
Every lot is at least an acre, so the community reads as countryside rather than subdivision. Mature plantings from the original 2000s buildout have grown in, and homes sit back from the road on real yards.
Common grounds include lake access and a horse-riding area — rural amenities that survive because the HOA exists to maintain them, not to police paint colors, at $350 a year.
Fox River Drive connects the community north toward Millbrook’s river crossing, with Silver Springs State Fish & Wildlife Area’s trails, ponds, and river frontage a short drive east.
Estates of Millbrook is served by Newark Community Consolidated School District 66 and Newark Community High School District 18. School names, grades, and locations are provided as facts only — always confirm current attendance boundaries with the district for any specific address.
On Chicago Road in Newark, about ten minutes south. District 66 serves roughly 205 students across its two schools — small-school scale by design.
On Fox River Drive in Millbrook, effectively at the community’s doorstep — among the shortest school runs of any subdivision we cover.
On Chicago Road in Newark, serving about 175 students drawn from Newark, Lisbon, and Millington-area feeders.
Millbrook and its Fox River crossing are minutes north; Newark’s downtown strip, library, and parks are about ten minutes south on Route 71. Groceries and daily errands run through Yorkville or Plano, each roughly 15 minutes out.
Fox River Drive and Route 71 connect east to Yorkville in about 15 minutes, continuing to Oswego and the Route 34 corridor. Route 47 south reaches I-80 at Morris in around 20 minutes for east-west interstate access.
Plan on roughly 90 minutes by car. The practical rail option is Amtrak from Plano, about 15 minutes north, with four daily trains to Union Station; Metra’s nearest boarding is the Aurora Transportation Center, about 40 minutes away.
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