Why we recommend Jen Tackney for Garden Grove
Jen Tackney's office is on Lampson Avenue in West Garden Grove, and her own work is concentrated in the city. RealTrends Verified, which checks agent production against closed transactions, ranks her second in Garden Grove for 2025 by both sales volume and transaction sides. On November 1, 2026, her team's featured listings included houses on Belgrave Avenue, Chase Street and Almondine Avenue in 92845 and on Dale Street in 92841.
Her team's website also keeps floor plans for two of West Garden Grove's best-known tracts: five Eastgate plans (Lido, Enchantress, Aloha, Windsor and Catalina) and eight Garden Park plans. That kind of tract-by-tract record matters in a city where most homes were built in the 1950s and 1960s and many have been enlarged since. This page is our recommendation, not a ranking of every agent in Garden Grove; interview more than one agent before you sign.
About Jen Tackney
Jen Tackney's team at GMT Real Estate
She describes herself as co-owner of GMT Real Estate, and she leads Team Tackney, whose broker is Geoff Tackney, from 5256 Lampson Avenue, Garden Grove, CA 92845. The team page lists two more licensed agents, Tino Pham and Rachelle Soto, and says the team has more than 40 years of combined experience across Orange and Los Angeles counties.
California DRE license for Jen Tackney
The Department of Real Estate's public lookup lists Jennifer Lynn Tackney (former name Zaricor) as a licensed salesperson, license 01373608, first issued on March 18, 2003 and valid through March 17, 2027. Her responsible broker is Geoffrey McCabe Tackney, broker license 01390210, at the Lampson Avenue office. The record shows no disciplinary action and no other public comments.
Services and areas Jen Tackney covers
Team Tackney lists residential sales, short sales and foreclosures, residential rehabilitation, VA and FHA buyers and real estate marketing. Its community pages cover Garden Grove, West Garden Grove, Cypress, Seal Beach, Los Alamitos and Rossmoor, and Huntington Beach, and it publishes a guide to selling a house held in a trust in Garden Grove. She lists English as her working language.
Jen Tackney's record: sales, recognition and reviews
Verified 2025 production
RealTrends' 2025 figures credit her with 40 transaction sides and $44.48 million in volume, an average price of $1.11 million. That ranked her second in Garden Grove on both measures, 227th in California by sides and 477th by volume. Her team's website reports more than 1,200 Southern California homes sold and more than $375 million in sales over its history; her October 2026 blog post describes her as the all-time top producer in Garden Grove and says the team closed more than 70 transactions and over $80 million in the past year. Those are her own figures, not RealTrends', so ask which sales each one counts.
Local recognition
The team's recognition page lists the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce's 2024 Service Provider of the Year. Her blog and her own details add a 2025 Women of Distinction honor in Orange County, a Top Sales nomination from the Pacific West Association of REALTORS, the Golden Boot Award and the PTA Oak Award. We did not find a third-party page for those four.
Two Google reviews she shared with us, quoted exactly:
- "From the first call, Jennifer Tackney listened with compassion, offered thoughtful guidance, and truly put herself in my shoes. She helped ease my stress by walking me through what to handle first, outlining a realistic timeline, and answering questions others hadn’t been willing to address." (Mickayla L., Google, 2025, about a co-owned home in Garden Grove)
- "Their expertise resulted in us getting over our asking price, and saved us thousands." (Judy L., Google, 2026, about a probate sale in Garden Grove)
Her blog reports a 5-star rating across more than 200 client reviews. Read a range of recent reviews yourself before you decide.
How Jen Tackney works with Garden Grove buyers and sellers
Selling a Garden Grove home, including trust and probate sales
Both reviews above involve hard family situations: an inherited home sold through probate and a co-owned house. Her Garden Grove trust guide walks trustees through reading the trust, recording a certificate of trust with the Orange County Clerk-Recorder, and documenting price and repairs for the beneficiaries. If you are a trustee or executor, ask her for a written timeline and for her recent trust and probate sales in the city. Our California probate real estate guide explains the court steps.
Buying in Garden Grove with Jen Tackney
Garden Grove homes sold for 100.86% of list price on average in the three months to September 2026, and 48.8% sold above asking (Redfin). Ask how she sets an offer price against recent sales in the same tract, how she checks permits on additions and converted garages, and what her written buyer agreement says about pay. Her team lists VA and FHA buyers among its services, so ask how she presents those offers to sellers.
West Garden Grove tracts
West Garden Grove (92845) had the city's highest Zillow typical value in September 2026, $1,111,495. Because the team works from inside this area and keeps the Eastgate and Garden Park floor plans, ask her how an original plan compares with an enlarged one on price, and which streets have sold fastest this year.
Local knowledge: Garden Grove prices by ZIP
Zillow's typical home value for Garden Grove was $1,001,908 in September 2026, up 4.8% in a year. Redfin's median sale price for the city was $1,009,519 in the three months to September. Zillow and Redfin measure different things, so compare each column on its own.
| ZIP | Zillow typical value (Sept 2026) | Redfin median sale price (3 months to Sept 2026) | Median days to contract |
|---|---|---|---|
| 92840 | $975,459 | $999,706 | 30 |
| 92841 | $1,021,304 | $1,124,670 | 35 |
| 92843 | $967,456 | $922,729 | 33 |
| 92844 | $940,849 | $722,288 | 27 |
| 92845 | $1,111,495 | $1,112,173 | 32 |
Small ZIPs swing from month to month, so treat each figure as a range. For the full picture see our Garden Grove homes guide and the Garden Grove ZIP code guide.
How we chose Jen Tackney
We confirmed her license, status and responsible broker on the DRE public lookup, checked her 2025 production and Garden Grove rank on RealTrends Verified, opened her team's website, Garden Grove pages and recognition page, and read the client reviews in her record. We looked for an agent whose day-to-day business is inside Garden Grove. Every featured agent passes the same checks. The full method is on how we choose agents.
How to contact Jen Tackney
Call Jen Tackney on (714) 801-9882, or the GMT Real Estate office on (714) 894-5185. The office is at 5256 Lampson Avenue, Garden Grove, CA 92845, and the team's website is teamtackney.com. Before the first call, have your price range or the address you plan to sell, your timing, and, for a trust or estate sale, the trustee or executor's details.