Years before President Obama was in the political spotlight, he was ritually coming to visit his sister that lived in Kailua here on Oahu. Last year when he was voted as our next President of the United States, he took “one last trip to Hawaii” prior to taking office. He stayed at a $9 million [...]
Wednesday morning our local newspaper’s front page reported that for the month of November 2009 real estate sales on the West side of the Big Island were stronger in most areas and categories than in the same month a year ago. I know the Hawaii Life Big Island team contributed to those statistics! Some of [...]
Every now and again at Hawaii Life, we express our “unified” core value by collaborating with other professionals in the Real Estate Industry outside of our corporate domain. Today it is our pleasure to invite Cindy Stone, a Home Loan Consultant with Central Pacific Home Loans, to explain the latest in Tax Credits for Homebuyers. [...]
Ka Milo at the Mauna Lani Resort is a beautiful new development of single family residential and paired homes built by Brookfield Hawaii. We are excited to represent Ka Milo #572 for $869,000. This is a paired home with a spacious two car garage directly across from the beautiful amenity center and on a corner [...]
Two questions we never tire of asking – what’s selling, and for how much? Let’s look at residential sales in two spots – Princeville, and Kapaa/East side. We’ll use sales data from Oct 1 to Dec 19. Since we don’t have access to appraised values, we’ll use what we DO have, which is County assessed value. [...]
Winter Holidays in Hawaii are something akin to slipping on a cashmere sweater, so soft and lightweight, you almost don’t notice you’re warm until you’re, well, chilled… Based on some HGTV shows, it appears that everyone on the mainland goes overboard when it comes to holiday lights. While we do enjoy our lights in Hawaii, [...]
Yesterday was another gorgeous day spent on the West side of the Big Island! Spending the morning looking at amazing homes, like this stunner listed at $12.5M, morphed into lunch at the Beach Club where we enjoyed the owners’ lifestyle for an hour or two. Mahalo nui loa, Sam and Carrie! You may recall the [...]
Brookfield Homes “Nihilani” condominium complex is offering brand new units in a price range of most Princeville “short sale” condos. Best pool on north shore! With only 9 developer-owned units left, these new prices are bound to grab attention quickly. Prices on these Nihilani condos start as low as $385,000. Most developer units are complete with upgraded features such [...]
Welcome to the Ilikai… The Ilikai is one of Oahu’s most iconic hotels on Ala Moana Blvd. Jack Lord helped put the Ilikai on the map in the opening scene of Hawaii Five-O. What a lot of people don’t know is the Ilikai was supposed to originally be built in Marina Del Ray, CA. My [...]
With all of the recent talk of the dismal economy I was pleasantly surprised when I did some research the other day and discovered: In the $ 2 Million + range over 31 properties have sold in Hawai’i in the last 60 days At the top an incredible beachfront 174 acre estate on Kauai with [...]
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