A recent article in Pacific Business News may have caught your eye if you have been thinking of buying property on the Big Island; Big Island home sales rise sharply. The statistics for the article were provided by Hawaii Information Service. In January two thirds more homes sold than the same month last year. For [...]
Hawaii Reporter recently announced there’s a New Phone System for Recorded Weather and Surf Updates on Oahu. This will be much more convenient as several phone numbers were required for the old system. The new 808-973-4380 number can also accommodate multiple callers! I’ve saved this number to auto-dial on my phone. It’s perfect for all those [...]
The Makena Beach and Golf Resort will be auctioned off sometime this spring, tentatively in April. Makena Beach Golf Resort to be auctioned off in April-Prime Oceanfront Maui Real Estate The 1,800 acre resort including a 310 room hotel, golf and tennis facilities was purchased by the partnership of Maui developer Everett Dowling and Morgan [...]
A lot of people don’t know about a little gem of a neighborhood in central Maui called Oceanview Estates. Initially Buyers think of Kihei, Wailea or Lahaina when they begin their search and realize the price tags may not fit their budget. I’ve sold real estate on Maui for 7 years, so I’m familiar with [...]
Where have all the closings gone? Six weeks into 2010, and only two parcels of land have sold in Kohala Ranch – with one lot and five homes in escrow in all the kohala coast neighborhoods – where are the “high season” sales? Here closing, closing, closing… Yesterday I had the supreme pleasure of showing [...]
Maui vacation rental condo sales are surging, with high end Wailea properties leading the way.
Yesterday’s front page of the Star Bulletin read Foreclosures Up 286%. Hawaii dropped from our worst ever ranking of 10th nationally to 11th in January. In December, Ewa Beach led Oahu in foreclosures. However this month, Kapolei surpassed Ewa Beach (now 3rd in the state) and Kailua-Kona (ranked 2nd) on the Big Island.
Vacant land is selling in Kohala For the past year, I’ve been selling lots of lots (vacant land ranging from 3 acres to 40 acres) in North Kohala. Parcels sold from Puakea Bay Ranch just before Hawi, out to Kapana’ia which is past Kapa’au on the road to Pololu Valley. Many of my buyers are [...]
Chasing Tails: Robert and Ellen capture another incredible Maui moment Hawaii Life Real Estate Services doesn’t have many agents who are less than a hundred percent committed. Our agents are tuned in to their areas, and you can sense the depth of that local knowledge between the lines of our blogs, and on our website. [...]
Puako Beach real estate has recently added two exciting properties to the current offerings – one on each side of the street, mauka, and makai (toward the mountain and toward the ocean, respectively). No…. Puako has not had an aquatic event such that this property is actually it’s own island within the community, but the [...]
There was a recent article in the Pacific Business News titled 2010 Oahu home sales off to fast start that talked about how we’ve been on a roll here on Oahu with home sales up every month since January 0f 2009! Year over year home sales were up 33% with 166 sales and condo sales [...]
Realtors are an extremely narcissistic group of people. They love to give themselves awards: “Million Dollar Producer” “President’s Circle” “Grand Centurion” “Top Producer” The list goes on… but let me ask this: Does anybody care? Do our customers and clients care about awards that we give to ourselves, or are they more concerned with our [...]
These are great times to be shopping for deals on full time residential Maui condominium properties, where prices are usually significantly less than comparable projects zoned for short-term (nightly/weekly) rental. North Kihei’s Kai Makani – no short term rentals, but long on value at $389-500K (MLS# 338483) Although these properties don’t offer the flexibility or [...]
Update: Check out the latest Kauai REO and Short Sale List → Twelve new bank-owned Kauai listings this first week of February. Here are a few of them that are attractively priced. For some of these condos, with an all cash purchase, a positive cash flow is becoming more feasible. Bank Owned #1 Plantation Hale [...]
There are all sorts of ways to measure a good buy, but in my mind the most important one is this: after the thrill of the chase, and the settling in, how much do you love the property? Many of my clients have purchased vacation rental condos as stepping stones to spending progressively longer periods [...]
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