Leadership

Licensed in Maryland and Delaware.

 

As the Managing Principal of Hubble Bisbee Chistie’s International Real Estate, Karen Hubble Bisbee, Associate Broker, ABR, GRI, brings a tireless work ethic, unwavering commitment to best-in-class service, and unprecedented market knowledge to the home buying and selling process for the region’s fine homes and estates.

 

With over forty-five years of real estate experience, Karen provides premier client service in an expansive market area, with properties ranging from beautiful estates in Baltimore County to penthouses in Harbor East to waterfront homes on Gibson Island and Annapolis. Nationally recognized as a Top Producer since 1996, this seasoned professional and noted local authority in the real estate arena has represented many of the area’s most notable and iconic properties. Known for her incredible work ethic, Karen is an Accredited Buyer Broker and has acheived her GRI designation. Hubble Bisbee has guided countless home buyers in their quest to find their perfect property in all price points.

 

Granddaughter of L. L. Hubble, who in 1918 founded The Hubble Company Real Estate, Karen is the third generation in her family to pursue a career in real estate. Licensed in 1977, Bisbee became a full-time agent following graduation from Hollins College in 1981. Karen was a partner in The Hubble Company from 1983 until the firm’s merger with W.H.C. Wilson & Co. in 1990. In 1996, Hubble Bisbee and her mother, Nancy Hubble, joined O’Conor, Piper and Flynn, which went on to become Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. There the nationally recognized team were Top Producers for the company from 1996 through 2015. In October 2015, the Hubble Bisbee Group left Coldwell Banker and opened their own office under Long & Foster in Green Spring Station where Karen Hubble Bisbee and the Hubble Bisbee Group were Top Producers through 2022. In 2023, Hubble Bisbee established its own brokerage and affiliated with Christie’s International Real Estate, becoming the independently owned and operated Hubble Bisbee Christie’s International Real Estate. Hubble Bisbee has been repeatedly recognized as one of America’s Best Real Estate Professionals, most recently ranking #4 in Volume for Large Teams in the State of Maryland in 2022. Karen was named to the prestigious Christie’s Master’s Circle in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

 

Karen is a Life Member of the Real Estate Million Dollars Association and has served as Vice Chair of the Greater Baltimore Board of REALTOR® (GBBR) Condo/Cooperative Committee and as a member of GBBR’s Public Relations and Arbitration Committees. She achieved her GRI (Graduate REALTOR® Institute) and ABR (Accredited Buyer Representative) designations and is an Associate Broker with the firm. Karen has been voted Baltimore’s Best Upscale REALTOR® by Baltimore Magazine with the Group recording residential sales in excess of one billion dollars in the last seven years.

 

A multi-term President of the Hollins College Alumnae Association, Karen has been actively involved with the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), having served as First Vice Chairperson of BMA’s Women’s Committee, Treasurer and member of their Executive Committee. She also sat on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Friends of the American Wing. She previously chaired the Hunt Valley Antiques Show and served on the Maryland Historical Society’s Galleries and Accessions Committees. In 2009, Karen was honored by the Maryland High School Athletic Directors Association as “Volunteer of the Year” for her work with the Bryn Mawr School, from which her daughter graduated. Karen was an active volunteer at the Georgetown University from 2009-2013. Karen currently sits on the Board of Directors of TLC Lacrosse, a local non-profit girl’s lacrosse club she co-founded in 2004 and has been a member of the Grand National Race Committee since 1993. Hubble Bisbee has also been an avid supporter for many years of both the Land Preservation Trust and the Valleys Planning Council, protecting, open space and promoting conservation and land stewardship.

 

Karen resides in Lutherville and Gibson Island with her husband, Stephen. Their daughter, Abigail Bisbee Dean, is a Vice President, Client Relationship Director, Client Advisory Americas, Christie’s New York.

A Baltimore native, in 1955 Nancy married John D. Hubble and, after receiving her real estate license in 1957, joined his family’s real estate business, L.L. Hubble & Co, which was founded in 1918. Nancy expanded the family business to include The Hubble Company in 1960, which focused primarily on residential sales in communities in and around Greater Baltimore. In 1981, Nancy partnered with her daughter, Karen Hubble Bisbee, the third generation of the Hubble family to pursue a career in real estate, and a 45-year veteran of the industry herself. The nationally ranked Hubble Bisbee Group has been listed on the Wall Street Journal Real Trends Top 250 Teams as well as America’s Best Real Estate Professionals over the years, most recently ranking #4 for Volume for Large Teams in the State of Maryland for 2022.

 

Nancy Hubble is a Member and Past President of the Greater Baltimore Board of REALTORS® (GBBR), Past Director of the Maryland REALTORS® Association (MRA), the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), and the Women’s Real Estate Council. She is a Life Member and Past President of the Real Estate Million Dollar Association. She was inducted into the MAR and NAR Political Action Hall of Fame. Nancy was also awarded the National Association of REALTORS® prestigious Omega Tau Rho award for exemplifying integrity in the industry. Having worked in the industry for over 60 years, Nancy was named REALTORS® Emeritus by the National Association of REALTORS®. She was also named REALTORS® of the Year for both Greater Baltimore Board of REALTORS® and Maryland Association of REALTORS®.

 

Nancy has been active in the Baltimore area community through business as well as civic engagement, donating her time and energy supporting countless causes over the last 60 years. Joining the effort to combat the issue of Baltimore’s vacant housing, Nancy served on a Blue Ribbon Panel for Baltimore City. For five years, Nancy served on the Board of the Enterprise Foundation (now Enterprise Community Partners), dedicated to neighborhood development. In addition, she has served as community liaison with the Johns Hopkins Medical Group, the Valleys Planning Council and Developers on zoning and development issues affecting the Falls Road Corridor of Baltimore County.

 

Nancy has been politically active throughout her adult life: working on campaigns, testifying at local and state hearings for issues important to the real estate agent community, supporting the causes important to members of the State Legislature, Baltimore City and County Councils and the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. Nancy has served as member and chair of Maryland REALTORS®’ PAC Trustees and as member and current Chair of GBBR PAC Trustees. For the past 15+ years she has chaired and continues to serve on the Legal Action Fund Committee at Maryland REALTORS® Association.

 

Nancy has served as a Vestry Member, and is presently a lay minister, reader, Saint Luke’s Minister and intercessor at her church, The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. She also served as Co-Chair of their Capital Campaign, raising funds needed for capital improvements of the 160-year-old building and grounds.

 

Having developed a strong respect for the importance of education and its effects on the overall health of the community, Nancy has focused her attention on Stevenson University, where she served on the President’s Council. Nancy witnessed the life changing effect the University has had on their graduates as they began their post-collegial path towards meaningful careers, engaged citizenship, personal fulfillment and consequential lives. Nancy’s wish to support motivated students and guide them on this trajectory toward academic achievement led her to establish the Nancy C. Hubble Endowed Scholarship for First Generation Collegians and also supports the Manning Academic Center. Currently a Trustee, Nancy is now serving on the Governance Committee of Stevenson University.