About Us
Basheer Dewji is licensed as Managing Broker, and provides Rental Property Management for both Residential and Commercial Tenancies, Strata Property Management and Trading Services (for the purchase and sale of real estate).
He started his career with Price Waterhouse in Kenya, and moved up rapidly through the ranks. He moved from public accounting to the industrial and manufacturing sector, and held positions of CFO, GFC and Managing Director in large sized national and multi-national firms.
Basheer moved to Canada in 2003, and has been involved with property management since then. He has worked for property owners, real estate marketing and management brokerages, and is now the principal of Minerva Realty Corp. He has the qualifications, experience, skills and attributes that have benefitted both owners and tenants, and resulted in very profitable outcomes for his clients.
No property is too small or too large for him to manage, and he provides direct and one-to-one interactions.
Don has been committed to delivering honest, reliable, and informed Real Estate service to his clients for over 40 years. He is licensed in Real Estate trading and property management. His Real Estate career started at an early age after graduating from BCIT in the technical Real Estate Division. His initiation into real estate brokerage in the early 1980’s, taught him how to navigate and succeed in some of the toughest markets when interest rates were at their highest levels. Don went on to open his own brokerage for several years before joining the commercial division of Wolstencroft Realty in 1992 ( aka Goddard&Smith or NAI Commercial). Don’s reputation for patience, diplomacy and tenacity have rewarded him with many long-term client relationships and an amazing network of contacts in the industry. Long before continuing education was mandated by the industry Don continued his formal education under the Urban Land Program at UBC. With his many years of volunteering in the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver and Real Estate Institute of B.C. Don has always been an avid supporter of professionalism within the industry and is an accredited Realtor who carries the designation “RI”. Working out of the centralized neighbourhood of New Westminster Don can serve his client’s needs throughout the entire lower mainland and beyond. Whether you are leasing your first retail store, buying investment property, or developing land with residential or commercial buildings, no projects are too big or small. Joining Minerva Realty Corp was a good move for Don to expand his services in property management for his clients, while contributing to the companies growing business of commercial & residential sales and leasing.