Ellen Grubert and Janis Lippman is a Member of the National Association of Realtors®.
Ellen Grubert and Janis Lippman
also servers these Cities / Areas:
Boston, Brookline, Jamaica Plain, Newton, Roslindale, West Roxbury
Agents Bio:
Together we are known for our strong commitment to service, hard work ethic and respect for everyone that becomes part of the real estate process. We offer you an experience that is truly personal and professional. And having Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage as a partner simply enhances our expertise and resources. Our goal is to make the selling and/or buying process an easy and enjoyable experience. Contact us if you have questions about the current real estate market and are looking for a balanced and educated point of view. We will be delighted to hear from you if you or family or friends are thinking of buying or selling.
Our experience is from having lived and worked in Boston's Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods for over 10 years and in the South end for 11 years. In addition to selling real estate, to date together we have purchased a total of nine properties; one of which was built from the ground up, and several of the others we have renovated together.
We both enjoy a strong client referral business built on our hard work; it is a testament from satisfied past clients and we are most grateful that they refer us. It is very important to us that we build long lasting relationships. Many past clients are now personal friends and we are continually honored to be a part of their investment endeavors, and a guest in their homes.
In addition to our real estate work, we are active participants in community service. We serve on the board of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition, were founding members of the Silent Spring Institute, participated in the first Boston to New York AIDS Ride, and are supporters of the Human Rights Campaign, Community Servings, Pine Street Inn, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Mass Equality and Coldwell Banker Cares.
Professional / Personal Distinctions:
2009 Ranked among the top 1,000 NRT sales associates for the first, second & third quarters
2009 Ranked #46 in the top 500 CBRB agents in Mass. (out of a total of 3040 agents)
2008 Ranked #47 of all New England Coldwell Banker Real Estate Agents (approx. 5000 total)
2008 Ranked among the top 1,000 NRT sales associates (based on GCI for the fourth quarter)
Broker of the Month/Team of the Month - 3/03, 7/03, 5/04, 6/04, 10/04, 2/05, 3/05, 12/05, 4/06, 8/06, 10/06, 12/06, 3/07, 9/07, 11/07, 12/07, 1/08, 6/08, 9/08, 2/09, 3/09, 6/09, 7/09, 9/09, 10/09
2007 Ranked #86 of all New England Coldwell Banker Real Estate Agents (appox. 5,000 total)
Presidents Circle - 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
Presidents Elite - 2004, 2003
Specialities:
Working with 1st time home buyers.
New construction or condo conversions.
Over All Rating:
No Ratting Provided
Individual Reviews & Testimonials:
Michael
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Massachusetts
I'm immensely grateful to both of you for marketing my house so skillfully, and I'm still astonished that my timing was so good. It was the perfect time to sell, and you were the perfect realtors for the job.
Ellen Grubert and Janis Lippman has provided these details about Newton, Massachusetts
The Massachusetts city of Newton is located in Middlesex County on the south bank of the Charles River, about 8 miles northwest of the state capital of Boston. The city is comprised of 13 \"villages\", each with its own distinct character and many containing their own small downtown areas. One of these (Chestnut Hill) is home to Boston College (BC). In addition to Boston, Newton is also bordered by Wellesley (to the west), Needham (to the southwest), Waltham (to the north), and Brookline (to the east).
Known as the Garden City, Newton was settled in 1630 as part of Cambridge (whose original name was \"Newtowne\"). In 1688, Newton separated from Cambridge and became known as Cambridge Village and later Newtown before finally becoming Newton in 1766. The establishment of Boston and Worcester Railroad depots in 1834 fostered Newton\'s growth as a suburb of Boston. Incorporated as a city in 1873, Newton today is known as a regional education center. In addition to Boston College, the city is also home to Andover Newton Theological School, Mount Ida College, and Pine Manor College. Major industries in the city include publishing, computer technology, and manufacturing of precision instruments and chemicals. The city is also the birthplace of the Fig Newton.
Arts, Culture, and Entertainment in Newton
Attractive to visitors and residents alike, Newton is a vibrant college community enjoying a close proximity to the Boston metropolitan area. The city is also rich in arts and culture, featuring two symphony orchestras, a large state-of-the-art public library, resident theatre groups and many artistic treasures. The Newton History Museum at the Jackson Homestead, built in 1809 as a farmhouse, served for a period of time as a stop on the Underground Railroad and is now a museum filled with paintings, manuscripts, photographs, maps and numerous historical artifacts. The New Repertory Theatre and Newton Country Players are local theater groups, and Broadway musicals are regularly performed at the Turtle Lane Playhouse. From July through October the city hosts a popular outdoor Farmer\'s Market.
Ellen Grubert and Janis Lippman has provided these details about Brookline, Massachusetts
In the 1630s, shortly after the arrival of the Puritans, the land of what would become Brookline was farmland for residents of nearby Boston.
In 1705, Brookline was incorporated as a town.
Brookline began shifting to being a residential community, and away from an agricultural community, in the late-18th century and early-19th century. Wealthy Bostonians, like Senator George Cabot, purchased farms and built weekend and summer homes.
Transportation links into Boston, like the Boston-Worcester Turnpike that was completed in 1804, helped the city grow greatly.
In 1884, an electric trolley, one of the country\'s first, began operation on Beacon Street.
Known as the \"town of millionaires\" in the early 1900s.
In the 1700s and 1800s, the majority of the town\'s residents were German and Irish immigrants who had moved from Boston.At the beginning of the 20th century, a significant Jewish community began to call the town home. By the middle of the century, this would only increase as many Jews from Boston relocated to Brookline.
Ellen Grubert and Janis Lippman has provided these details about West roxbury, Massachusetts
Founded in 1630 (contemporaneously with Boston), West Roxbury, Massachusetts was originally part of the town of Roxbury and was mainly used as farmland. West Roxbury seceded from Roxbury in 1851, and was annexed by Boston in 1874. The town included the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and Roslindale.
Bordered by Roslindale, Hyde Park, Dedham, Brookline, Newton, and Needham, West Roxbury\'s main thoroughfare is Centre Street, lined with local restaurants and commercial establishments. Today, the neighborhood\'s tree-lined streets and mostly single family homes give it a suburban feel in an urban setting. Life in the neighborhood centers on political and civic activism as well as local parishes and youth athletic leagues. West Roxbury is home to many of Boston\'s civil servants. The community boasts a significant proportion of persons of Irish descent as well as a smaller number of more recent Irish immigrants. The Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645 and located on Saint Theresa Avenue in West Roxbury since 1927, is considered by some to be oldest school in continuous existence in North America, (for, unlike Boston Latin, which was founded in 1635, it stayed open during the Revolution since it as a Tory school) . The school\'s endowment is estimated at $143.8 million, the largest boys school in the United States.
The neighborhood was home to an experimental transcendentalist Utopia community called Brook Farm, which attracted notable figures like Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne whose 1852 novel A Blithedale Romance, is based on his stay there. Like its neighboring communities, West Roxburys residential development grew with the construction of the West Roxbury branch of the Boston and Providence Rail Road; the area grew further with the development of electric streetcars.
West Roxbury neighborhood page on City of Boston website
1858 Map of Norfolk County by Henry F. Walling, which included West Roxbury at that time. A very large and detailed color map. Also see the detailed side map of Jamaica Plain on the top left side of the map.
Suffolk County Atlas West Roxbury maps: 1874, 1896, 1905, 1914
West Roxbury Historical Society
Theodore Parker Church
West Roxbury Branch Library
\"West Roxbury Railroad Station, 1932\" - photograph, Railroad History Archive, University of Connecticut Libraries Collection
Ellen Grubert and Janis Lippman has provided these details about Roslindale, Massachusetts
Roslindale is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, West Roxbury, Mattapan and Dorchester. It is served by a stop on the MBTA Needham Heights commuter rail line, as well as many bus lines which pass through Roslindale Square, where Washington Street meets Cummins Highway and Corinth Street.
Six miles south-southwest of downtown Boston, Roslindale was originally part of the town of Roxbury. In 1851, current day Jamaica Plain, Roslindale and West Roxbury seceded from Roxbury to become the Town of West Roxbury. The area voted in 1873 to be annexed to the City of Boston.
Roslindale grew residentially as a classic streetcar suburb. The railway, which currently serves as the Needham Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, was built after the American Civil War, and spawned a new round of commercial development. Roslindale saw steady growth in its residential population, beginning in the 1880s, with the introduction of the horse-drawn street railway service between Forest Hills and Dedham.
On March 14, 1887, a Boston & Providence Railroad train, inbound to Boston, was passing over a bridge at Bussey Street, in the current Arnold Arboretum, when the bridge collapsed, killing twenty-three and injuring several hundred. This is considered one of the first major rail catastrophes in the country, and contributed to the widespread inspection of train bridges across the U.S.
In the 1920s, Roslindale Village assumed the configuration it has today, with Adams Park at its center and access to rail and bus lines. The Roslindale business district (still called Roslindale Square or \"Rozzy Square\" more recently labelled \"Roslindale Village\") has been struggling for 20+ years to reinvigorate itself as a federal Main Streets district. It has met with limited. Adams Park is home to occasional gatherings and events. North of the square, closely packed triple deckers provide an urban tone. To the west of the square, Victorian houses border the Arnold Arboretum. South of the square, homes on Grew Hill and Metropolitan Hill have an almost suburban character. Roslindale is a diverse neighborhood?the ethnic breakup as of 2000 was 56% Non-Hispanic White, 16% Black or African-American, 20% Hispanic or Latino and 3% Asian or Pacific Islander.
Ellen Grubert and Janis Lippman has provided these details about Boston, Massachusetts
When Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1635, the South End was only a narrow isthmus of land connecting the town of Boston to the mainland. Charles Bulfinch, architect of the Massachusetts State House and later the United States Capitol, laid out the South End\'s first street plan in 1801 as a grid pattern of streets surrounding a large oval-shaped park called Columbia Square (today\'s Blackstone and Franklin Squares).
Boston\'s burgeoning population outgrew the original peninsula in the 1840s, pressing the city to fill in the Back Bay and South Bay marshes on each side of the isthmus.
Chester Square, Union Park, and Worcester Square were created during the 1850s to attract Boston\'s mercantile class to the South End, and soon handsome brick bowfront townhouses surrounded the London-style squares. Later, Columbus Avenue was built in the Parisian boulevard style in 1868, reflecting the shift to French urban design.
The South End has a rich social and architectural history, but in the 20th century the neighborhood suffered from neglect, arson, and wholesale emolition. By the mid-1970s, about one quarter of the original buildings had been destroyed.
In 1966, concerned citizens founded The South End Historical Society to preserve the area for future generations. In 1972, the South End was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the largest Victorian brick rowhouse district extant in the United States.
In 1983, the area became a local Boston Landmark District and is the largest landmark district in the country, covering more than 500 acres.
Ellen Grubert and Janis Lippman has provided these details about Jamaica plain, Massachusetts
Among Boston’s many characteristic neighborhoods is Jamaica Plain, an urban village with a strong sense of community and only 3 miles from downtown. Proximity of Jamaica Plain to central Boston gives Jamaica Plain a cosmopolitan flavor and an easy commute into the city. In 10-20 minutes by car, one of two T lines, the commuter rail or via the verdant bike paths, the enjoyment and benefits of a major city are yours.
In Jamaica Plain, urban amenities, abundant natural resources and splendid historic architecture have blended to create a distinctly traditional and progressive community committed to the quality of life in Jamaica Plain. JP, as it is colloquially known, also boasts a vibrant business district with fine restaurants and specialty shops.
With 1200 acres of parkland including numerous ponds, an arboretum, two bike paths and three designated historic districts; it is an oasis rare in most city neighborhoods. The variety of the housing stock reflects the range of diversity of the people who live here as well. From modest to mansion, home styles run the gamut from single family or \"triple-decker\" condo to stately Colonial and Victorian residences. Recently, the development of townhouses and lofts has also contributed to the area’s urban chic.
With proximity to downtown, Jamaica Plain is a popular alternative for people wanting to return to the city either with their families or to downsize. Urbanites seeking a greener, more spacious style of living have discovered the advantages of residing in JP
