Nav Shahram - Top Coquitlam Realtor, Port Moody Realtor, Burnaby Realtor

Nav is awesome! He is very patient and knowledgeable. He helped us through the whole buying process, including recommending us a great broker for our mortgage. He is quite thorough in his analysis of all the units we saw and provided us with useful insight which helped us in finally buying our first place. And we also became good friends!! We would gladly recommend him to anyone we know. Thanks for all your help bud!

If you are looking for a top-class realtor, look no further than Nav! As first-time home buyers, we had a lot of anxiety. Nav was extremely reassuring and kept our spirits high in the current daunting housing market. He made sure to address all our concerns promptly and patiently. Nav is a true team player. He is very professional, communicative, and overall just a very nice person. He always made us feel supported and valued. A few things we really appreciated about Nav in each stage of our home-buying process are: 1. Initial discussion - Nav patiently heard our requirements and helped us figure out what was most important to us. He helped us come up with a strategy for which neighborhoods to target given our budget and requirements from the house. 2. Discovery stage - Nav was very prompt in providing us insights about the homes we were interested in viewing. He is analytical and thoughtful in his approach. This helped us shortlist potential properties to view, which allowed us to make the most of our time on the open house days. 3. Open houses - Nav was with us every step of the way. He was never pushy, and provided us the relevant information (sales data, neighborhood insights and prospects, etc) to help us decide whether to make an offer. He is very likable and polite, which goes a long way when interacting with seller’s agents. 4. Preparing the offer - Being first-time buyers, we did not understand a lot of aspects of the offer documents. Nav didn’t only educate us on reading the strata documents, but also thoroughly went through them himself to point out any potential concerns. With such a competitive market where subject-free offers are the norm, we wanted to make sure that we got a pre-offer inspection done. Nav helped us organize the inspection at very short notice and made sure that he was present when going over the results. This really helped us put our minds at ease before making the offer. He also helped us review the personal letter, which we believe helped tip the scales in our favor on the offer day. 5. Offer day - Nav helped us come up with a reasonable offer based on his experience and analysis. He is the sole reason we did not overbid and act out of emotions when deciding on the offer price. He proactively kept in touch with the seller’s agent to gauge interest before submitting the offer, as well as to get updates afterwards. He was very positive and helped us keep calm while we were waiting to be informed of the decision. We highly recommend Nav and would definitely work with him for our real-estate needs in the future!

For us, Nav truly delivered the impossible... We were able to purchase a detached home in one of the most desirable locations in Port Moody Center, under the asking price, while everything else was selling for 200-400K over. The purchase was done through an exclusive sale as the property was no longer on the market. We first saw the property in summer but were not able to negotiate the price to our liking. Over the months, Nav had built an incredible relationship with the seller's agent and he regularly contacted the agent to see if the sellers were willing to negotiate. Once he knew there may be an opportunity to restart the talks with the sellers he was game on, and we closed the deal in a short time. We were able to put all the subjects in our offer, which enabled us to do a full inspection and had enough time to ensure the financial clearance. Nav's ability to read the market, see a couple steps ahead, build trust with the seller's agent, negotiate wisely, and have the right amount of patience were invaluable in securing our purchase. We knew that Nav always had our best interest in mind and were very careful with when and in which conditions we should make an offer. He also connected us with other professionals that we really enjoyed working with. We received a great rate and an incentive from the mortgage broker and we really trusted the work and honest opinions of the inspector he connected us with. What we also valued most working with Nav was his honesty, transparency, sincereness and humor. He was always very patient with us, answering our countless questions promptly and in detail. He was able to put forward different strategies when we were outcompeted in other properties. He has wealth of knowledge and insights on this crazy market and his great social skills helped us greatly to navigate this environment. We truly feel that in addition to a great real estate professional, we have gained a good friend during this process. Our son, our dog and us already miss seeing him!

It was our absolute great pleasure doing business with Nav. He is very professional & hardworking. He helped us find our dream home. He is extremely knowledgeable and will go above and beyond to answer any questions you may have. As a first time home buyer, he educated us really well with all the aspects of buying and we can’t thank him enough for all the great work that he did for us. We would highly recommend Nav to anyone for their real estate needs. Keep doing the great work, Nav!

Nav has been extremely helpful in our home searching and purchasing process! We didn’t know Nav before, nor he was referred by someone we know. We just looked for a realtor close to our home, through Google Map, and tried our luck. We sent our email in the evening, and got reply in the same day, the responsiveness already impressed us. After the first call, he knew we made the right choice. We had no home purchase experience, and was too busy to do our homework, but Nav explained everything to us patiently in details. Many of which is new to us, or something we didn’t think important. Talking to him really helped us making the right choice. We were searching in the subsequent weeks. Nav set up an automatic update system for us, so we didn’t need to look up websites every day. We soon narrowed down the home we want. The seller (agent) was unfortunately bothersome: she was not knowledgeable about the condition of the property, was reluctant to initiate communication between us and seller, and was sometimes rude. To be honest, we were pretty stressful at that time, the seller side seemed to be unreasonable. Thankfully, Nav was very responsible, he read through all documents for us, looking for answers of our questions and replied quick, spent lengthy time to communicate with the annoying selling agent, and tried his best to negotiate and keep the deal alive. Finally our offer was accepted, but the completion date is a bit inconvenient (end of year). Nav spent a bit of effort to find a lawyer to work with us. He also contact the strata for us to take care the mess that the seller left, and even took the keys from the seller agent who was stuck in bad weather on the hand over day. Thanks for Nav’s professionalism, patience, and hard works, we end up having our wonderful home without too much trouble. We are happy to recommend to Nav to everyone.

We worked with Nav from October through February in our search for a home in the Lower Mainland from a distance. Going in, we weren't too sure what we wanted. Eventually, we were able to focus in on a neighbourhood we liked and have moved into a home that we are very happy with. We closed on our new home with a slightly unconventional offer, and we couldn't have done it without him. In that aspect alone, he proved his worth. But Nav has much more to offer beyond his deal-making abilities. Looking back on this journey, the advice and suggestions he made along the way were sound. I'd ask him about a listing that I liked, and he wouldn't hesitate to tell me, "I wouldn't spend time looking at this listing because of X and Y, unless you are okay with Z." He'd give you his input, but always leave you space to make the decision. I suggest to anyone who works with Nav to be open and share everything that you're thinking. I regret not doing that sooner. Yes, it's true that a buyer's agent's incentives are not always aligned with the buyer. But through this experience, Nav strived to make, and made, the best deal for me.

I would like to share some of my experience here, about how amazing was working with Nav. It took a long time for us to find a beautiful place and to get there, we changed our strategy so many times. During this journey, Nav always was patient, helpful and positive. He is amazing. He analyzes the market very well, which gives you clear view to make your biggest decision ever. I know many realtors, because of my job, but I chose Nav for my own purchase and absolutely recommend him as a friendly, honest and professional realtor.

It was a pleasure working with Nav. He really helped us understand a red hot housing market in Vancouver. His tips, reasoning and insights were all very accurate and helped us a lot in arriving at a decision on what kind of a house we want. He was also amazing during the bidding process, and his people skills and creative negotiation strategies really helped set us up for a successful bid. As a first-time home-buyer, I was not aware of what the housing market looked like a few months ago. Nav got on a long call with me, walked me through the process and also gave me a good understanding of the current market. Would highly recommend using Nav as your realtor!