Zafar is a Real Estate Broker for over 18 years and offers Real Estate services to buy and sell real estate as a California Licensed Real Estate Broker under dba of Gemstar Properties, DRE License # 01707367.

Zafar gives utmost attention to his real estate clients. He views every transaction as unique with its own challenges and opportunities. Instead of using a cookie cutter approach to buying or selling, he comes up with a tailored plan for each client to successfully accomplish their goals.

Zafar has over 40 years of engineering, project management, real estate and business experience.  Zafar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from UCLA and earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Pepperdine University. He holds a Professional Engineer (PE) license and a Real Estate Broker license in the State of California. Zafar has held high-level positions in private companies and with a Los Angeles County public agency.

With his engineering, finance and project management background, Zafar also runs a housing development company, Smart Housing Developers, Inc.  Zafar has developed relationships with Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Government agencies, and other professionals needed to complete housing projects. Using his extensive experience, Zafar analyzes every project and develops a feasibility plan. Then he puts together a team to successfully complete the project.  

Zafar also offers real estate consulting services to commercial property owners to help clients reduce their property taxes, under a separate company, Property & Business Solutions, Inc. 

Zafar is also a founding director on the board of a non-profit organization, Carrie Mehdi Foundation, that donates to other non-profit organizations helping the poor, needy and homeless, for medical research, for environmental preservation of sites of natural beauty and for health and welfare of dogs.