Jilian Gardner

REALTOR® | Residential & Commercial Real Estate Professional

Edmond • Oklahoma City • Greater Oklahoma City Metro

For Jilian Gardner, exceptional real estate service isn't measured simply by how many homes you sell. It's measured by how well you take care of the people who trust you to sell them. For more than 22 years, Jilian has built her career around that philosophy — combining extensive market knowledge, skilled negotiation, technology, responsiveness, and an extraordinary commitment to client care.
Specializing in Edmond, Oklahoma City, and surrounding metro communities, Jilian provides residential and commercial real estate services to buyers, sellers, military families, relocating professionals, first-time buyers, established homeowners, and clients moving into higher-end properties. She has been a Top Producer from 2011 through 2026, earning recognition for both transaction volume and sales production throughout her career.
Yet among all her professional accomplishments, one recognition captures Jilian's approach to real estate particularly well: the Jim Jackson Memorial Award for Customer Service, recognizing her as the #1 ERA agent for customer service among approximately 43,000 real estate professionals and more than 4,100 locations nationwide. That recognition wasn't simply about selling real estate. It was about how she treated people while doing it. And that distinction remains at the center of Jilian's business today.

Serving Military Families With Experience, Urgency & Genuine Care
Military families often don't get to choose when life changes. Orders arrive. Timelines compress. A family may suddenly be researching an unfamiliar community while simultaneously coordinating a new assignment, housing, schools, financing, inspections, moving logistics, and the countless details involved in relocating a household.
Jilian understands that serving a military family requires more than showing properties. It requires education, communication, responsiveness, local knowledge, and a genuine willingness to step in when the family can't physically be there.
Over the years, Jilian has helped numerous military families navigate Oklahoma real estate, and she has developed a particular heart for making sure service members and their families are exceptionally well cared for. She takes time to educate relocating families about the communities they may want to consider, explain current market conditions, walk them through the buying or selling process, and adapt communication to the family's individual circumstances.
Jilian also has extensive experience working with the VA home loan process and understands the importance of having knowledgeable professionals coordinating the transaction. She maintains relationships with experienced lenders who can help eligible military and veteran buyers understand and navigate their financing options.
But her service doesn't stop with financing or finding a property. Jilian connects families with trusted local resources that can help them establish their lives in Oklahoma. Her objective is to make an unfamiliar place begin feeling familiar. Because a military relocation isn't simply about getting someone to closing. It's about helping a family successfully begin its next chapter.

When You're Buying From Hundreds of Miles Away, Trust Matters
One of Jilian's relocation clients experienced exactly that. The family was relocating to Oklahoma and had only a single weekend available to look at homes. Jilian coordinated 13 property showings in one day, ensuring they could see every home they were seriously considering before leaving Oklahoma.
Once the family returned home, the remainder of the process was managed through email, text, and video calls. Jilian personally attended inspections and used video calls to walk the buyers through the property, showing them concerns she noticed when they couldn't be physically present.
When the inspection produced a substantial list of requested repairs — approximately 20 or more items — Jilian negotiated with the seller on her clients' behalf. The seller agreed to the requests. And Jilian's involvement didn't disappear after the closing. She continued checking on the family and connecting them with local companies and resources as they transformed the property they had purchased into their home.
That experience reflects the standard Jilian strives to provide military and relocating families: Be present when they can't be. Communicate when uncertainty is high. Advocate when something needs to be addressed. And remain a resource after the keys have been handed over.

Helping Young Professionals Turn Success Into Homeownership
Jilian brings that same high level of service to young professionals beginning to build their lives and careers throughout Edmond and the Oklahoma City metro. For many younger buyers, purchasing a home represents much more than moving into a new space. It's a milestone. You've worked hard. Your career is progressing. Your financial position is changing. And you're beginning to think more intentionally about what you want your future to look like.
The question often becomes: "What should I buy — and what makes sense for where my life is going?" Jilian helps clients navigate that decision with education rather than pressure. She understands that today's young professionals may be balancing career growth, relationships, family plans, commuting needs, lifestyle, affordability, and long-term financial goals simultaneously.
Jilian doesn't begin by telling clients what they should want. She listens first. Then she brings more than two decades of real estate experience to helping them understand their options.

From First Homes to Luxury & Distinctive Properties
Jilian's experience allows her to serve clients across very different stages of life and homeownership. A young professional purchasing a first home today may eventually need additional space for a growing family. A military family arriving in Oklahoma may later receive new orders and need an experienced listing professional capable of selling within a compressed timeframe. An established professional may be ready for a higher-end property that better reflects the lifestyle they have worked to create. And a longtime homeowner may eventually need an experienced strategist to position and market one of their largest assets.
Jilian brings the same standard to each: Understand the client. Understand the market. Create the strategy. Communicate relentlessly. Execute. Her extensive experience in both residential and commercial real estate also gives her a broad perspective on property, negotiation, marketing, and the Oklahoma market.

A Proven Ability to Get Homes Sold
Jilian is known for bringing a sense of urgency to her work. She is a go-getter who believes that when something needs to happen, you move. That philosophy has contributed to an exceptional record representing sellers. Throughout her career, Jilian has successfully sold numerous homes in less than 24 hours, combining market knowledge, strategic positioning, strong promotion, technology, and responsive communication to generate attention for her listings.
But speed by itself isn't the objective. The objective is creating the strongest possible outcome for the seller. One seller described choosing Jilian as the best decision they made when selling their home, praising her professionalism, market knowledge, communication, property marketing, and negotiation strategy. Her approach generated multiple offers, and the client credited Jilian's negotiation skills with helping them achieve the outcome they wanted.
For military homeowners facing PCS orders, that combination of urgency and experience can become particularly valuable. When a family's next chapter has a reporting date attached to it, they need a professional who understands that timelines matter. Jilian does.

Customer Service That Became a National Reputation
Jilian's production record is substantial. But her career has become equally defined by service. She earned the prestigious Jim Jackson Memorial Award, recognizing her as the #1 ERA agent for customer service nationally among approximately 43,000 agents and more than 4,100 locations. She has continued to receive recognition connected to that standard of service, including repeated Top 5 consideration for the award.
Her clients describe exactly why. One family who used Jilian for multiple transactions said: "She is so engaged, she listens and is responsive. She treats her clients with love and respect, which is truly more than anyone could ask for." That is the kind of relationship Jilian wants to create. Not simply "I was their Realtor®." But "They knew I cared about what happened to them."

Leadership Within Oklahoma Real Estate
Jilian's influence extends beyond her personal real estate practice. She has invested significant time into strengthening the professional community around her and has held numerous leadership positions within Oklahoma real estate.
Her leadership and professional recognition include: 22 years of real estate experience, Top Producer 2011–2026, Jim Jackson Memorial Award for Customer Service, Repeated Top 5 Jim Jackson Memorial Award recognition, Top All-Around Agent recognition within ERA nationally, Realtor of the Year — Edmond Board of Realtors 2020, President — Edmond Board of Realtors 2020, President — Edmond Board of Realtors 2025, Lifetime Achievement Award — Edmond Board of Realtors 2025, Harriett Wagnon Top Agent Award 2025, Secretary — Oklahoma Association of Realtors, District 5 Vice President — Oklahoma Association of Realtors, National Top Agent recognition.
For Jilian, leadership is another form of service. She believes strong communities are built when experienced professionals are willing to contribute their time, knowledge, and energy to the people around them.

Building the Next Generation of Leaders
That commitment to community extends beyond real estate transactions. Jilian founded and leads Edmond Leaders of Tomorrow, reflecting her passion for developing leadership and investing in the future of her community. She has also served for four years on the Dancing for a Miracle committee supporting the Children's Health Foundation of Oklahoma. In 2023, Jilian stepped onto the dance floor herself as a celebrity dancer and helped raise more than $75,000 for the Children's Health Foundation of Oklahoma. Her involvement reflects a philosophy that has shaped both her career and her life: Success means more when you use it to serve other people.

A Voice for Her Community — and Her Country
Outside of real estate, Jilian has another passion that surprises many people who first meet her. She's a singer. Jilian performs throughout the Oklahoma City metro area on many weekends when she isn't working or supporting her family at a sporting event. But some of her most meaningful performances involve a song with particular significance to the military community — The National Anthem. Jilian regularly performs the National Anthem at sporting events and has had the honor of singing it multiple times at Tinker Air Force Base ceremonies. For someone who has spent years helping military families through relocation and homeownership, those moments carry special meaning. Her respect for the military isn't simply part of her marketing. It's woven into the community she serves.

Family at the Center
For all of Jilian's awards, leadership positions, transactions, performances, and community involvement, some of her favorite moments are much simpler. She is a proud mother of three children and wife to her husband, Jonathan, an avid cyclist. When Jilian isn't negotiating a contract, serving the Realtor community, volunteering, or performing somewhere around Oklahoma City, there is a good chance you'll find her supporting one of her children at a sporting event or cheering on Jonathan.
That family perspective influences the way she approaches real estate. Because she understands that behind every purchase or sale is someone's real life. A home is where families gather. It's where children grow up. It's where careers develop. It's where people celebrate milestones and recover from difficult days. And sometimes it's the first place that finally makes a new city feel like home.

Experience When It Matters. Service Long After Closing.
After 22 years in real estate, Jilian knows how to sell property. She knows how to negotiate. She knows how to market. She knows how to use technology. She knows how to navigate complicated transactions. And she knows the Edmond and Oklahoma City markets.
But those aren't the only reasons clients continue recommending her. They remember that she answered. They remember that she listened. They remember that she showed up. They remember that when they couldn't be at an inspection, she was. They remember the connections she provided after closing. And they remember feeling like their Realtor® actually cared about what happened to their family.
Whether you're a service member relocating to Oklahoma, a veteran purchasing your next home, a young professional beginning your homeownership journey, a growing family searching for more space, an established professional looking for an exceptional property, or a homeowner preparing to sell, Jilian brings the experience, urgency, negotiation ability, local relationships, and personal commitment necessary to help you move forward. Because extraordinary real estate service isn't simply about getting the transaction done. It's about making sure the people you're serving are exceptionally well cared for from beginning to end — and beyond.