About Brookside
Royal LePage Brookside Realty is a family-owned real estate and property management office in downtown Maple Ridge, serving Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, Mission and the wider Fraser Valley.
Our office has served downtown Maple Ridge as a real estate brokerage since 1969, and has been owned by Jim Isherwood since 1982. That continuity is unusual in this industry — more than forty years of the same family answering the phone, holding the licences and standing behind the advice.
Located across from City Hall, Brookside combines licensed REALTORS®, brokers and property managers under a single roof. It is a rare mix that lets us support a client through an entire property journey: buying a first home, investing in a rental, placing and caring for tenants, and eventually selling with the full history of the property already on file. If you are starting with a search, our team keeps a current overview of Maple Ridge homes for sale.
We are deliberately a boutique office. Growth has come from repeat clients, referrals and staying close to the communities we live in, rather than from volume targets. You can also read more about Royal LePage Brookside Realty in Maple Ridge.
Brokerage at a glance
Brookside Realty’s history isn’t measured simply in years. It is reflected in decades of service, professional recognition and involvement in the communities we serve.
From Jim Isherwood’s early MLS® Medallion recognition to Brookside’s provincial production achievements and decades with Royal LePage, the awards and records preserved today provide a glimpse into a much larger history.
Top-tier MLS® record
MLS® Medallion Club and President’s Club are distinct levels of recognition in the Greater Vancouver program. Medallion Club recognizes high annual production; President’s Club has been described in published program materials as representing approximately the top 1% of Greater Vancouver REALTORS® and Board members.
Surviving plaques and original Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver ceremony records document Jim Isherwood’s President’s Club recognition across multiple years and periods. Plaques are identified by performance year — the year following “Combined Listings and Sales” — separately from their presentation dates. The recovered plaque recognizes James R. Isherwood’s combined listings and sales in 1996; January 1997 is its presentation date.
The documented President’s Club performance years include 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996 and 2008. Original Board programs also list “Isherwood, James R.” under “Medallion Club 1989 — Medallion President’s Club” (February 1, 1989) and “Medallion Club 1992 — Medallion President’s Club” (February 5, 1992). These are the programs’ recognition years, not inferred performance years. This surviving record is selected documentation, not necessarily every President’s Club year Jim achieved; some physical awards have been lost over the decades.
Long-term consistency
Jim’s first confirmed MLS® Medallion qualifying year is 1980. Surviving milestone awards include 10-Year recognition in 1991, the 15-Year Award in January 1996 and the 20-Year MLS® Medallion Award in February 2001.
The original Medallion Club 1983 program lists James R. Isherwood under “Two Year Members”; the 1986 program lists him under “Master Member”. These membership designations corroborate the early Medallion record, rather than establish additional President’s Club years or change the independently verified qualifying years.
Greater Vancouver REALTORS® records now confirm 30 Medallion qualifying years and recognize Jim as an MLS® Medallion Club Lifetime Member. These are qualifying years across his career, not 30 consecutive years. Older ceremony programs provide additional corroboration of Medallion participation, without establishing extra President’s Club years.
1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Archival record
Before becoming Royal LePage Brookside Realty, Brookside operated under the Realty World banner. Surviving awards from this period document both individual and brokerage achievements in British Columbia.
Realty World–Brookside was recognized as the office with the Highest Production in the British Columbia Region for 1995/96 and again for 1996/97.
Surviving 1996 awards also recognize Jim Isherwood as a British Columbia Region Production Leader and Listings Leader.
Selected Recognition
1980
First confirmed MLS® Medallion qualifying year
1983
Original Medallion Club 1983 program lists James R. Isherwood under Two Year Members; corroboration of Medallion membership, not an additional President’s Club year
1986
Original Medallion Club 1986 program lists James R. Isherwood under Master Member; this membership designation is separate from the independently documented President’s Club performance year
1986
President’s Club performance year — Jim Isherwood recognized for combined listings and sales in 1986; plaque presented January 29, 1987
1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
Additional President’s Club performance years documented by Board records; surviving individual plaques are being preserved as selected archival proof
1989
Original Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver MLS Awards program dated February 1, 1989 lists Isherwood, James R. under Medallion Club 1989 — Medallion President’s Club
1991
10-Year MLS® Medallion Award
1992
Original Medallion Club Dinner program dated February 5, 1992 lists Isherwood, James R. under Medallion Club 1992 — Medallion President’s Club; 1992 is the program’s recognition year
1995/96
Realty World–Brookside recognized as the Highest Production office in the British Columbia Region
1996
15-Year MLS® Medallion Award
1996
President’s Club plaque presented to James R. Isherwood by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver for combined listings and sales in 1996; presented January 1997
1996
Jim Isherwood recognized as a Realty World British Columbia Region Production Leader (1st Quarter) and Listings Leader (2nd Quarter)
1996/97
Realty World–Brookside again recognized as the Highest Production office in the British Columbia Region
2000
Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver Quarter Century Club — certificate presented to James R. Isherwood dated September 14, 2000; distinct from Medallion production recognition
2001
20-Year MLS® Medallion Award — plaque presented to James R. Isherwood in recognition of outstanding achievement in qualifying for the M.L.S. Medallion Club, February 2001
2008
President’s Club qualifying year documented in the Board record; no physical 2008 plaque is currently available
2010
Royal LePage Platinum Award for Production Excellence
2011
Royal LePage Diamond Award for Production Excellence
2014
Royal LePage Platinum Award for Production Excellence
2015
Royal LePage Diamond Award and Lifetime Award of Excellence
2016
Royal LePage Platinum Award for Production Excellence
2020
Royal LePage President’s Gold Award for Production Excellence
Today
MLS® Medallion Club Lifetime Member — 30 qualifying years
Development experience
For more than four decades, Jim Isherwood and Brookside Realty have worked with residential developments throughout Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, including apartment buildings, conventional and street-oriented townhomes, duplex and triplex-style communities, and single-family projects.
Jim has participated in certain projects as a developer. More commonly, developers retained Jim and Brookside Realty to help position, market and sell their newly constructed homes. You can review Brookside’s documented new development projects and sales history.
The archive includes a detailed Meadowview Estates case study, documenting Jim Isherwood’s development-company ownership, Nicole Isherwood’s financial administration work, and Brookside’s original listing-side role in Pitt Meadows.
It also documents the historical 23711 132 Avenue rezoning, subdivision and renovation case study, distinguishing Brookside Properties’ original land-development work from the townhome project later completed by subsequent parties at 23710 133 Avenue.
Explore Our Projects & Sales History“Not every award survived the decades. The history did.”
Many of Brookside’s early awards, records and memorabilia have been lost over the years. The pieces preserved today document decades of professional recognition and an enduring presence in Lower Mainland real estate.
Alongside residential sales and property management, Jim Isherwood's work has included land ownership and rezoning, and project-sales roles with other developers and marketers.
Development / Ownership / Rezoning
Documented records include Brookside Properties Ltd.'s 2016 rezoning and subdivision work at 23711 132 Avenue, and 2010–2015 rezoning and permit-submission correspondence for 23553 Larch Avenue. Later construction on 23711 was carried out by others.
23711 132 Avenue history →Project Sales / Sublisting Brokerage
A signed 2017 agreement appointed Brookside as sublisting brokerage for Quartz Townhomes, with rareEarth Project Marketing as listing agent; contemporaneous correspondence documents a similar arrangement at Kanaka Hill.
Quartz & Kanaka Hill records →Project Marketing / Sales
A 2007 proposal to Canova Homes for the 32-unit Centro condominium identifies Brookside's project-marketing team, with Jim as Office Broker and Nicole as Associate Broker.
Centro record →Broker/Owner & REALTOR®
Jim has owned Royal LePage Brookside Realty since 1982, guiding the office through more than four decades of Fraser Valley market cycles. He bought a brokerage that had already served downtown Maple Ridge since 1969 and built it into a family-run business known locally for straight answers and long-term relationships.
His work spans residential sales, investment property, land and development opportunities, and the brokerage oversight that keeps Brookside's sales and property management sides working as one team. Many of Jim's clients are second- and third-generation — families he first helped buy a starter home now list with him decades later.
Associate Broker, REALTOR® & Licensed Rental Property Manager
Nicole represents the second generation of the Isherwood family at Brookside. She works with buyers and sellers across Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows and leads the client side of the property management division, supporting landlords, out-of-area owners and tenants day to day.
Her focus is practical, well-documented service: honest pricing conversations, careful tenant placement, and clear communication from the first phone call through to completion or the end of a tenancy.
Realtors, property managers and accounting working from one Maple Ridge office — reach any of them directly.
Licensed Realtors, brokers and property managers work in the same office, so an investment purchase, a tenant placement and a future sale are handled by one connected team.
The same family has owned this office since 1982. You deal with the people whose name is on the door, and files are not passed between distant departments.
Our office is in downtown Maple Ridge across from City Hall. We know the neighbourhoods, the schools, the trades and the rental market because we work here every day.
Tenancy agreements, inspections, notices and statements are handled in line with the BC Residential Tenancy Act and Royal LePage brokerage standards.
Owners living elsewhere in Canada or abroad rely on us as their local eyes: inspections, maintenance coordination and clear reporting.
Much of our business is repeat clients and referrals — the most honest measure of how a brokerage treats people over four decades.
Royal LePage Brookside Realty
Here for You Since 1982
Serving Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows as our primary local focus, with sales and property management service extending to Mission, Abbotsford and the wider Fraser Valley.
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Whether you are buying, selling, or handing your rental property to a local manager, the same family-owned team is here to help.
