Jackie Lafferty-Olson is a top-producing real estate broker with Baird & Warner's Lincoln Park office and has been helping buyers, sellers, and investors throughout Chicago for more than 25 years. Her experience spans changing real estate markets, fluctuating interest rates, and a wide range of financing environments, allowing her to provide trusted advice regardless of market conditions.
A lifelong Chicago resident and mother of two, Jackie combines extensive local market knowledge with a personalized approach to client service. She specializes in helping first-time homebuyers, move-up buyers, luxury home sellers, corporate executives, and real estate investors navigate the Chicago housing market with confidence.
Jackie's expertise includes:
Chicago neighborhood and market analysis
Residential home buying and selling
Investment property acquisition and sales
Pricing strategy and comparative market analysis (CMA)
Contract negotiation and offer strategy
Local market trends and property valuation
Jackie’s clients receive personalized attention based on their individual goals. Jackie takes the time to understand each client's priorities, conducts thorough market research, and provides clear data and analysis to help clients make confident real estate decisions. Her strategic negotiation skills and commitment to communication help clients achieve the best possible outcome.
Much of Jackie's business comes from repeat clients and referrals—a reflection of the long-term relationships she has built through trust, professionalism, and consistent results. Whether you're relocating, purchasing your first home, upgrading to a larger property, downsizing, or expanding your investment portfolio, Jackie is committed to providing expert guidance throughout the entire process, from initial consultation to closing.
Jackie is a wonderful agent to work with. We spent a couple months searching aggressively for a home, and she was extremely flexible with scheduling showings for us. We finally found a wonderful town home, and moved fast to secure it. Her knowledge and expertise was instrumental in helping us find and purchase a new town home!
Jackie was great....she has an expert knowledge of the city and and its many neighborhoods. She went above and beyond to ensure I found the right property. In addition, she was excellent in helping to smooth over some last minute snags to ensure the deal went through. I would recommend her without hesitation.
Having worked with numerous realtors in various states I can honestly say that Jackie is the best agent we have worked with for real estate. Her knowledge, professionalism, and ability to listen to your needs is top notch. Jackie is also highly skilled in negotiations and makes the entire process as easy as possible. Bottom line Jackie is one of the best realtors you will find in Chicago.
Fantastic job selling our house! Jackie made recommendations for staging the house and removals, organized the vendors, priced the house right to encourage multiple bids (similar houses are still on the market over a month later), and negotiated on our behalf as we sold while out-of-State. Highly recommend.
Over the last decade, I have worked with Jackie on four transactions, two as buyer and two as seller. Her professionalism and tireless work ethic paid off for me in each instance. Most recently, she crafted a creative marketing plan for my condo, using Facebook and localized targeted outreach. This approach was so successful that the condo sold on the first day of showing, for the ful...
I highly recommend Jackie to anyone buying or selling a home in Chicago. When we bought in Lakeview 2 years ago, she proved to be extremely knowledgeable about the area. We found our home within 2 days and Jackie expertly guided us through the negotiation. When selling a few months ago, Jackie sold our home in one weekend! We have worked with 3 people across the Chicago and Cleveland mar...
Jackie really was exactly the person we needed to help with finding the perfect home in Chicago. Neither of us had spent really any time in Chicago, so having someone like Jackie who was very open and honest with us, while at the same time being patient with us was critical. She did a fantastic job of orienting us to the city, was very considerate of our goals for a home as well as our f...
It was a great pleasure having Jackie as our agent when selling our condo recently. Our experience was very positive! She simplified the whole process and made it as effortless and easy for us. At the onset, she took time to explain the sales process and her role. She offered valuable suggestions in readying the property for listing, including assisting with the staging with her own i...
Moving from Germany to the USA was not easy, but with the support of Jackie the process of finding and buying a home was perfect. She was available all the time and always provided very good information. I would recommend her anytime. Everything was perfectly managed by Jackie. I will recommend anyone to contact Jackie. I already told my company about the perfect service.
Jackie did an excellent job. We had an offer on our home in less than a week after listing, and we closed in a convenient quick fashion. She did an excellent job advising us during the inspection process, and overall, we could not be happier.
Jackie did an excellent job with our relocation, assisting us with the process, keeping us informed and is an excellent negotiator.
Jackie was warm and friendly, yet professional. She is very knowledgeable about Chicago and was able to answer questions we had in order to make the right decision for our family. It was easy to communicate with Jackie and she was responsive to any question, comment, or concern we had during our home buying process. Jackie also went above and beyond during our unique process - we needed ...
Jackie helped us market and sell our home in Chicago (Southport Corridor) when I was relocated to Atlanta. We selected Jackie due to her expertise with relocations, her knowledge of the local market, and her openness with us on the sales process. From our initial meeting, we felt like we had known her for years and that she would have our best interest at heart. She prepared an in-depth ...
Jackie is the best!! In April of this year, my wife and I relocated from New York City to Chicago to take advantage of a career opportunity. Neither of us had a real sense of the Chicago housing market, the type of property we were looking for, which areas were best suited to our lifestyle. The market here is hot!! Desirable properties come on and off the market in days, and our lack of...
“We worked with Jackie as part of our international transfer from Germany to Chicago/IL. Jackie delivered tremendous results in analyzing our needs and find appropriate family homes within a very short time frame. She came up with innovative and out-of-the-box ideas corresponding to our unique needs. The eventual sales process was micro-managed to perfection and Jackie went certa...
I have been working with Jackie for over 15 years. Jackie is a rock start with real estate bringing me deals and concepts that I didn't even think of. Once I challenged her to find a certain product with in 30 days and sure enough, she found and we bought it. I cannot recommend Jackie enough.
Jackie did a top notch job for us in the sale of our historic landmark home in Chicago. From the initial input for the staging of our home to the final settlement, Jackie was always on top of her game, very flexible with her schedule, gave us great insights on the market and made a challenging task so easy for us. In the four homes that we have bought and sold, this has been our best exp...
Over the course of many real estate transactions, Jackie is probably the best real estate agent I've ever had. She offered good advice at every step of the process and I always felt that she was looking out for my best interests. She is smart and pleasant to work with. She was able to sell my house quickly in a tough market for a good price. I'm looking forward to working with he...
Jackie is a great realtor who was able to sell my condo in a difficult market. She was tireless and creative. She was always available and had showings at all times of the day and night. She was present for the showings and constantly gave me feedback. She had a number of innovative ideas to market my place. The end result was a contract in under 90 days. Laura Lally
As well as being extremely knowledgeable about all the different Chicago neighborhoods we were interested in looking at, Jackie proved to be very trustworthy and helpful with advice throughout the buying process. Never having bought in a city location, her experience and insight into subjects such as parking, condo associations, and resale values was invaluable. For almost a year, she ...
My partner and I hired Jackie as our Realtor when purchasing our first home together and then selling that home later. She was a great help in both buying and selling. I know that working with us had to be challenging - multiple showings, always wanting to see more, checking in, questions, etc. But Jackie was always positive and very helpful. We will definitely use her services again. &n...