The Pickens and Placko Team consistently ranks in the top 1% of all Baird & Warner agents in units sold. The Pickens and Placko Team are members of Baird & Warner's exclusive Founders Club. This is the top club for the highest producing agents in the company. We are dedicated, full-time, full-service realtors with over 50 years of combined experience in the business, which has allowed us to fully develop our communication, negotiation, and marketing skills in order to produce the best results for our clients. As a team, our ability to work together ensures that we are always accessible to our buyers and sellers because our client’s needs are our highest priority and we provide them with constant communication to ensure their needs are met. Our proven marketing strategy gives our clients the best internet presence you will find and will get a home sold even in a challenging market, while our strengths as staging professionals enable us to work with our sellers in preparing their homes for the market in order to get a high price with less market time. We pride ourselves on our professionalism and integrity and our hundreds of previous satisfied clients have helped create a reputation that has become our most valuable asset. We look forward to helping you sell your current home and find your next one! * Members of the National Association of Realtors and the Mainstreet Organization of Realtors
Outstanding experience!! Holly and Margaret are truly the best...warm, friendly, trustworthy, knowledgeable, efficient and more. So thankful for finding them. Absolutely highly recommend!!
Holly is truly the best!! She’s very level headed and someone you can most definitely trust. We were first time home buyers and she was with us every step of the process making sure we made good, well calculated and informed decisions. Could not recommend working with her more - she KNOWS her stuff and provides best in class support.
We needed to sell our parent’s home and met with several realtors. We immediately knew Holly and Margaret were the right agents for us by the kindness they showed and compassion they had for our family when selling the home our parents built and we grew up in. It wasn’t just business to them. They understand the emotion that goes into selling a home. We received great advice on what ...
Fantastic group that sold my home in days. Very easy and pleasant to deal with. Highly recommend!!!
Holly was extremely tentative to our wants and needs. She came prepared, was highly communicative, and was very knowledgeable. We felt respected and taken care in her hands. If we ever find ourselves in the market to sell or buy again we without a doubt would hire her again.
Excellence! Holly and Margaret are consummate real estate professionals. Their experience and advice were spot on, and led to a contract on our home in just 4 days! They are both so easy and fun to work with, and took the stress out of the process for us. Highly recommend this team!
Excellence! Holly and Margaret are consummate real estate professionals. Their experience and advice were spot on, and led to a contract on our home in just 4 days! They are both so easy and fun to work with, and took the stress out of the process for us. Highly recommend this team!
Holly was a great agent who was very knowledgeable about the Naperville market. As new buyers in a competitive market, Holly did a great job of making us fell comfortable with the process and we highly recommend her to anyone looking purchase a home.
Holly Pickens and Margaret Placko were a superb team to work with. From our initial meeting, recommendations for selling and addressing repairs to final closing, they were always there to make everything as smooth and seamless as possible,
Working with Holly was such a refreshing experience. She was patient and yet encouraging. She had a strong understanding of the Chicago market was able to guide us through a lot of first-time-buyer questions. When it came to the negotiation, Holly was incredibly responsive (at all hours) and guided us through the whole process. I never felt like she was overstepping or pushing us. She re...
Holly is thorough, knowledgeable, experienced, trustworthy and easy to be around… all the characteristics I think matter most in a realtor. She made our buying process so easy and helped us find our dream home in a fraction of the time we expected it to take and in one of the trickiest housing markets.
Holly and Margaret helped me sell my house quickly. They made good recommendations on what I needed to do to prepare my house to sell and were helpful throughout the process.
Thank you!! Great service!! The team is very professional and helpful. They know a lot about the business. We are very happy in our home!!
All around great experience. Couldn’t have asked for a more helpful agent, when working with Holly. She was there to answer all of my questions and worked with me to find a house that really felt like home. I highly recommend the Pickens & Placko Team. You will not be disappointed.
All around great experience. As a first time home buyer, Holly was helpful beyond words. Would highly recommend to anyone.
We recently bought a beautiful house with Holly’s help. As an agent we realized how wonderful she is, ever noticing the small things that inform what you tend to like and dislike. She also maintains her distance and is never pushy leading us to really open up as we have always only felt her sincere desire to help us get the best house. The things we would notice with her would never ha...
Selling and purchasing our homes over the past several years, with the help of Holly, has been wonderful! Her knowledge of the different markets and years of experience make what is normally a stressful process, stress free! I was able to put my trust in her and now we have the home of our dreams! Holly and the whole Pickens and Placko team have my highest recommendation!
I highly recommend Holly, she was ready for showing on a 12 hours notice. She helped us and we were able to find the home we feel is perfect for us. She was very professional and friendly, and was very quick in responses over the phone, text or emails.
Working with Holly was such a refreshing experience. She was patient and yet encouraging. She had a strong understanding of the Chicago market was able to guide us through a lot of first-time-buyer questions.When it came to the negotiation, Holly was incredibly responsive (at all hours) and guided us through the whole process. I never felt like she was overstepping or pushing us. She rea...
The Pickens-Placko Team is fantastic!! I've been a real estate professional for over 30 years. While I don't work in residential sales, I have constant contact with real estate agents and know when I'm dealing with someone who knows what they're doing. Holly and Margaret are the best!! You can't go wrong with Pickens-Placko. I recommend them highly!!
A few months ago my wife and I relocated to IL, the company we used to arrange the move put us in touch with Holly, as with most referrals like this you never know what to expect. From the get go Holly was incredible, she was patient when we changed our mind numerous times, educated on the area, enthusiastic regardless of the time of day and most importantly she was VERY honest and upfro...
Hi Margaret & Holly, I just wanted to send this note along to you. More than you know, I deeply appreciate the opportunity to work with you. It's just plain fun and profitable!! I have said this over and over, and it has born out time after time, you two are my good luck charms. I don't have to tell you that in probably the worst real-estate market I'v...
Dear Holly and Margaret, Thank you for assisting us in the sale of our home in Bolingbrook. We really appreciate your professionalism, effort and hard work. It got the job done in what became a difficult market for us as sellers. We could not have done it without you. Thanks again. You both are awesome! Sincerely, Beth and John