The Building That Started Everything

In 1986, a North Vancouver commercial building was taking shape. Bill Berry was there from the beginning – involved in its physical development, managing it through construction, and overseeing its early operations. In 1988, he took what he’d learned and founded Custom Realty.

That building is still in our portfolio today.

Over nearly four decades, it has passed through multiple ownership groups. Each one inherited the existing management relationship — and each one chose to keep it. Not out of habit, but because continuity in a commercial building protects the asset, keeps tenants stable, and preserves decades of institutional knowledge that shouldn’t walk out the door when ownership changes.

The building has never been simple to manage. Ownership today involves multiple local shareholders, each with their own perspective and priorities. Capital projects — mechanical replacements, exterior improvements, common area upgrades — require coordination, clear communication, and a team that understands both the building and the people behind it.

We know this building the way you can only know something you’ve watched grow from the ground up.

Today, Custom Realty’s North Vancouver office operates out of this building – and when the current ownership group renewed our lease, they did so with a right to manage attached. Not just a contract. A partnership that has outlasted every other change this building has seen.