Born in Boston, Lisa Drapkin owns and resides in a 3-family in the Riverside area of

Cambridge.  Shortly after earning an MBA from Babson College in 1988, she began 

in real estate by managing the rental division at a local Cambridge real estate firm.  

At this company, she was responsible for hiring and training brokers as well as 

renting 

a wide range of properties. She left real estate in 1991 and joined a direct marketing agency called CPS Direct as a Senior Account Executive.  At CPS, she worked on both consumer and business-to-business marketing campaigns with organizations such as Harvard Executive Education, BayBanks, Lotus Development and Brandeis University. After four years, she decided to return to real estate and joined Hunneman-Coldwell Banker.

In her first eighteen months back in the business, she earned the Carlton Hunneman award for the highest gross sales for a new agent in the company. In her second year, she earned a vice presidency which is awarded to those in the top 2% of the company.  In 1998, she achieved the prestigious 1929

Club which is awarded to the top 29 agents in the company (out of 2,500).  Since 1998, she has continued to earn her vice presidency and has been a consistent member of the Coldwell Banker President’s Elite Council. Most recently, she was ranked #13 out of 3,700 Coldwell Banker agents in Massachusetts with sales of over $30 million for 2005.

Lisa actively holds First-Time-Buyer Seminars and travels to various Coldwell Banker offices to teach Buyer Brokerage skills.  She is a member of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, Greater Boston Business Council, Women In Business and is a Certified Buyer Representative and Trained Mediator. Lisa has a well deserved reputation for her knowledge of real estate and is renowned for her high energy level and enthusiasm.

In her spare time, she is a volunteer mediator in the Small Claims Courts, a Board member for GLAD, and a member of The Federal Club of the Human Rights Campaign.