Megan Gardner

Megan is a life-long area resident who puts her whole heart and energy into helping her
clients. Given her extensive and unique design background combined with her knowledge of
the community, Megan provides both her buyers and sellers with a detail-oriented eye to guide
them from start to finish through the real estate process. Megan has served as a Director on
the Suffolk South Shore Chapter of LIBOR in 2020 and was the 2021 Chapter Vice President.
As a Silver & Gold Award Recipient at Signature Premier Properties, the fastest growing Real
Estate Agency on Long Island, Megan provides full concierge service to her clients - and
loves working with Seniors, First-Time homebuyers, Veterans, Downsizers & Upsizers. Megan
also provides relocation services to those moving into or out of Long Island through her vast
referral network of real estate experts across the country. Earning her CBR, MPR, RETP and SRES
designations, Megan is committed to providing exemplary service to her sellers and buyers.
After Graduating from St. Lawrence University in 1991 and completing Sotheby’s American
Arts Course in 1993, Megan began her career in the Fine and Decorative Arts at Sotheby’s New
York, as an intern in the American Paintings Department. Megan then moved onto her role as
Assistant to the Director of the Decorative Arts Division where she worked closely with the
American Furniture & Decorative Arts and American Folk Art Departments as well as the
European, English and French Furniture and Decorative Arts Departments, Porcelain, Silver
and Art Nouveau/Art Deco Departments. As a Business Manager at Sotheby’s, Megan also
worked closely with the Jewelry & Books and Collectibles Divisions before becoming Director
of the North American Client Accounting Department.
After her Sotheby’s career, Megan played an integral role in her family’s business Auleen
Gardner Antiques located in Bay Shore. In 2016 Megan became the Long Island Associate for Nye & Company, a
leading Fine Art and Antique Auction House based out of Bloomfield, New Jersey which
provides full appraisal and valuation services for the fine arts and antiques marketplace.
Megan also gained in-depth knowledge and specialized skills navigating the Developmental
Disabilities (DD) services ecosystem through her personal experience as a mom of a special
needs child. Megan has served as a Parent Member for the Bay Shore School District’s Special
Education Committee and was a founding member of the districts SEPTA Board when it was
revitalized. In 2009, Megan was elected to the Board of Trustees of Adults and Children with
Learning and Developmental Disabilities (ACLD) ,a leading non-profit organization on Long
Island which provides full-life services for developmentally disabled children and adults.
Megan also served on the Hofstra University Parent Council Bylaws Committee, as her older
son currently attends the Honors College at Hofstra. Megan is a frequent writer and
sought-after speaker on innovative programs and advanced therapies for special needs and
developmental disabilities and has appeared on the Donna Drake show, as a guest speaker on
Long Island News Radio’s “The Non-Profit Voice”, school district assemblies in Suffolk and
Nassau County and was featured in Newsday’s “People On The Move” segment. Megan also
is a frequent moderator on Clubhouse in the Real Estate All Day & Real Estate From The Heart
Rooms.