HAWAI'I LIFE
Deal – Kona Heavens Home Under $1 Million
North Kona at Kona Heavens, make it your next home! This home comes with a solar-heated lap pool 73-4914 Anini Street, (MLS# 240406) Kona Heavens, North Kona.
The Big Island’s First Winter Snow of 2010 on Mauna Kea
There’s snow on Mauna Kea! Where, but on the Big Island of Hawaii, can one look up at majestic Mauna Kea (in Hawaiian the mountain means white mountain) and see the first winter snow? This happened overnight after a day of heavy rain yesterday, and the beautiful 13,796 ft. mountain was covered by about 2,000 [...]
Deal – $336K Kona Palisades Home with Ocean View
At only $336,000, this Kona Palisades home (MLS# 239697) is a deal not to be missed! 73-4341 Kapuahi St. (MLS# 239697) Kona Palisades, North Kona
Talk Story #7 – Hawaii Spirit and the Gift of Remembering at Punchbowl Crater
One of the Hawaiian name translations of the Punchbowl Crater is Puowaina, or ”Hill of Sacrifice.” Our 5 Armed Forces Divisions are honored
Poipu Golf Course Home Auctions to Start the New Year
In 2006, I was invited to sit open house at a fancy kiosk that was being managed by a Realtor friend at the Poipu Village Shopping Center. Excitedly, I drove down to Poipu, weekly looking for buyer prospects for a new golf course development called Wainani. It was pretty hard selling as there was nothing [...]
HAFA Short Sales on Kauai’s East Side
Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA) – Bank approved listings are getting ready for market. When the Treasury Department rolled out their HAFA plan, part of their Making Homes Affordable Program, agents like myself had guarded optimism about HAFA expediting the short sale process. Well, it hasn’t quite played out like that. My first HAFA listing [...]
35-Year Old Ossipoff Home For Sale in Old Pali
Most of the Ossipoff available inventory has been in Diamond Head, however, here’s a new listing in Old Pali: 34 Gartley Place (MLS# 1015393) recently came on market for $1,200,000 Old Pali is located mauka (towards the mountains) of Downtown Honolulu adjacent to the neighborhoods of Dowsett and Nuuanu. The landscape is traditionally lush and green with ample [...]
Is Buying Real Estate in Wailea Becoming Affordable?
When was the last time that you saw Wailea and affordable in the same sentence? It also depends on what your definition of affordable is. I say it’s affordable based on this recent closing on December 1, 2010. Located at the Wailea Ekahi III, Unit 43C was originally listed in February of 2010 at $550,000, [...]
Whale Season Starts on the Big Island
The whales have arrived! I paddle three times a week with my fellow Kupuna (Hawaiian for grandparent) paddlers, as we are called by the club, although many are much younger. We all belong to the Kawaihae Canoe Club. Usually, we take out three to four 6 man canoes, depending on how many people arrive, and [...]
Hawaii Five-O (Palekaiko) Visits Kaaawa Real Estate
Hawaii Five-O took the #1 spot again for television ratings on Monday. This listing in Kaaawa (MLS# 1012308) is just around the corner from Kahana Valley hunting scene This week’s episode started off with two hunters looking for wild boar in Kahana Valley when they discover a woman that was running for safety. Meanwhile, McGarrett [...]
Luxury Real Estate Along the Honolulu Marathon Course
The 2010 Honolulu Marathon is coming up this weekend on Oahu. This Hokua unit 30G (MLS# 1014598) priced at $2,160,000 overlooks Ala Moana Beach Park The Start—The course starts at Ala Moana Beach Park and heads towards downtown Honolulu and Chinatown. The runners then loop around on King Street back towards Ala Moana heading east.
Hawaii Kai is Oahu’s Premier Marina Residential Development
Across the street from the ocean and situated right on the marina with your own “boat dock” off your lanai. Hawaii Kai’s Gateway Peninsula…What do YOU think? Here is the amazing scoop: Top location, “gateway peninsula” complex with whitewater ocean, marina, and mountain views…approximately 100 meters from the beach! Park-like setting complex with swimming pool [...]
The Islands at Mauna Lani Reports First Sale In Two Years!
The first sale in two years at the Islands at Mauna Lani just closed yesterday! My happy buyers purchased a fully furnished 3 bedroom/3.5 bath beautiful town home (some updating needed) in this fabulous neighborhood at an unparalleled price. This sale was not a short sale or an REO! The last sale of a slightly [...]
Puako Beach Market Update
The end of “fall” and start of winter in Puako Beach, on the sunny Kohala Coast, brings nearly perfect weather, whales, surf—and an exciting sale! One Puako sold on November 30th, for $5.6M—over asking price by just under 2%. Asking $1,050,000, this cottage (MLS# 240224) is a few hundred feet from the beach! As you [...]
Best Buys – New High End Wailea Condo Listings
Wailea represents value to the core, and the Elua Village is one of its landmark properties. A beachfront 2-bedroom was just listed at $3,850,000 Wailea is largely immune to the ills that have befallen much of the resort real estate market throughout the world. Sure, prices have fallen, like everywhere, but consider this—of 139 condos [...]