Steve Gardner

The Gardner Group founder Steve Gardner lived and worked in the Austin area real estate market for more than 30 years. Steve earned his Master’s in Teaching with a concentration in family dynamics from Baylor University and began his professional career in college administration, achieving recognition as the youngest dean in Texas in the late 1970s.

Steve first worked in real estate with McLester and Grisham Realtors where he quickly became a partner and ran what was then the largest and most successful residential real estate office in Austin in the early 1980s.

After leaving McLester and Grisham he formed his own company, The Gardner Group, Inc., which has been in continuous operation since 1983.

Steve’s reputation for integrity and honesty was well known throughout realtor community in Austin, and of course where most important, with his clients.

After Steve’s death in 2024, his son Brandon has carried on with this father’s legacy of providing the type of care and concern the company’s clients have grown to expect.