The registration deadline to bid at auction for this Kuki’o Foreclosed luxury home is rapidly approaching. If you want the opportunity to purchase this estate at auction, you must register by August 31, 2010. More »
Katie Minkus, R(BIC)
Living her "Best Hawaii Life" is what it's all about for Katie, Broker-in-Charge of the Hawaii Life Big Island Team and she often encourages her colleagues to go "play outside... surf, enjoy the weather, watch the sunset. Go remind yourself why you love living and working in Hawaii!" Licensed in 2003, Katie became a Broker in 2007. Her passion for technology and working on the "bleeding edge" led her to Hawaii Life Real Estate Services in 2009. Katie has been on the Kona Board of Realtors of Directors for 3 years and is currently serving as President-Elect for the organization. Follow Katie on Twitter & Active Rain and Facebook, Trulia, LinkedIn, Chase Nation. Katie is also a Zillow Allstar
Kukio Foreclosure Auction – Registration Deadline pending
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on August 24th, 2010 |
Tags: Auction, Big Island, For Sale, Foreclosures, Hawaii, Homes, Kukio, Luxury, Video
$7.4 Million Price Reduction on Oceanfront Puako Beach Land for Sale
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on August 15th, 2010 |
Tags: Big Island, Deals, Kohala Coast, Land, Oceanfront, Price Reductions, Puako, Video
It’s time to Land Bank in Puako Beach!
Originally listed for $12.9M, this 6.76 acres of oceanfront land in Puako is now asking only $5.495M!!
Original List Price: $12,900,000
List Price: $5,495,000 (-$7,405,000)
Imagine… 6+ acres of land—oceanfront in Puako Beach, one of the Big Island’s most premier, upscale communities. There are so many possibilities in terms of developing this land. Proceed with the original developer’s dream of a luxury, gated community of 8 properties, split into two or three parcels, or better yet, build one of the most prestigious, ultimate luxury estate homes on the entire Kohala Coast! With no CC&R’s, there is only County building codes for restrictions – this oceanfront parcel simply cannot be beat! More »
Land Bank (With Seller Financing) in Kohala By The Sea
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on July 26th, 2010 |
Tags: Big Island, For Sale, Hawaii, Kohala by the Sea, Kohala Coast, Land, Video
You don’t need a million dollars to land bank. How about this gorgeous Kohala-by-the Sea lot (MLS# 231301) listed for $275,000 and offering Seller Financing.
There have only been two sales of Kohala-By-The-Sea parcels of land so far in 2010 – one for $215,000 and one for $300,000. Land loans are still scarce More »
Party in Puako – Friday July 23rd!
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on July 21st, 2010 |
Tags: Big Island, Hawaii, News, Puako
7 Puako Beach Drive, come around 4-ish and help us celebrate!
When I agreed to open the “office” for Hawaii Life Real Estate Services in February, 2009, I understood our best retail space to be our company website, where we receive 40,000-60,000 unique visitors every month. Being born and raised in Los Gatos in the heart of the Silicon Valley, the concept of working virtually didn’t phase me in the least. After all, isn’t that what technology is for? To afford us the opportunity to work where we want to work? After six years of commuting to an office in wet, rainy Waimea town, where I had to wear closed-toed shoes to keep warm (in Hawaii! Who knew?), I was more than ready and eager to work from home in a bikini and pareo, across the street from the ocean in beloved neighborhood of Puako Beach.
18 months, $45.6M sold and 90 satisfied clients and customers later, I’m thrilled to announce the Grand Opening of our first physical Big Island office—located at 7 Puako Beach Drive, next to the General Store. We’ve completed an entire remodel More »
Jump In! $500K Reduction on Oceanfront Puako Home
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on July 19th, 2010 |
Tags: Big Island, For Sale, Homes, Oceanfront, Price Reductions, Puako
Most Hawaii residents I know have one huge priority upon arriving back to our beautiful island home—jump in the ocean!
Ahhh… Jump right in from #58! (MLS# 232168). Oceanfront. Asking $2.5M
Original Price: $3M
Reduced to: $2.5M
Life in Puako Beach makes it easy to immediately don beach wear and jump into the luscious, crystal clear blue water, swim with some honu while washing away all the grime of travel, and hectic pace of the mainland. At least, that’s what I did upon arriving home to Puako Beach today—after spending a week in San Francisco and the Bay Area environs. Don’t get me wrong—the trip was an enormous success.
Hualalai Auction Postponed – Market Update
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on July 9th, 2010 |
Tags: Big Island, Deals, For Sale, Hawaii, Homes, Luxury
Concierge Auction’s latest Hualalai Four Seasons resort auction planned for July 1st, has been postponed to August 24, 2010, with a newly-discounted “suggested opening bid” of $4.5M.
Original minimum bid price was $5.9M, now asking $4.5M
What does this say about the state of Hualalai property? There have been 13 sales since January: 3 bare lots, 6 condos and 4 homes. The homes conveyed from $8.72M in February to $14.5M in April—the last sale being a gorgeous oceanfront estate with both parties represented by outside Brokers. (Congratulations to Nicole Vincent and Ed Rapoza of Island Land Company and Brandon Wood of Pacific Resort Realty). And of course, Cher’s house which sold at auction in January. More »
Hawaii Life Big Island Does It Again!
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on July 7th, 2010 |
Tags: Big Island, Hawaii, Sales Stats
Hawaii Life once again holds a spot in the top 10 selling offices on the Big Island—coming in on June 30th, 2010 at #8 out of 191 offices, and the 6th highest company in dollar volume. That’s quite an achievement for a company that’s been on island just over a year! More importantly, it represents an enormous number of satisfied clients and customers—people—who (we believe) are raving fans of Hawaii Life’s innovative business model. More »
Why Puako should be renamed “Honu Beach”
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on July 2nd, 2010 |
Tags: Big Island, Life, Oceanfront, Video
Living and working Puako Beach real estate means that occasionally I forget what an amazing natural wonderland is the Big Island’s Kohala Coast.
Luckily, when I hit the beach there is nearly always a Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle hanging around
(This video was taken on my birthday, June 19th, on the beach in front of my house in Puako. Hau’oli la hanau to me!)
Is it Time to Land Bank in Hawaii?
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on June 29th, 2010 |
Tags: Big Island, Hawaii, Kohala Coast, Land, Luxury, Oceanfront, Video
It’s a great American tradition—land banking. Absolute fortunes have been created by buying and holding pre-developed land in the path of growth by people such as Donald Trump, Howard Hughes and Bob Hope. Are you next?
On Hawaii’s Big Island, there are still available many large—and small—tracts of land that are smack in the path of future development—and there recently seems to be renewed interest in purchasing this sort of property. In the Kohala Coast’s most upscale private resort, Kuki’o, there is now only one oceanfront parcel of land left to buy from the developer—at a rock bottom price of $4.5M. Lot #18 offers gorgeous ocean, mountain and Maui views—and is one of the few truly oceanfront parcels at this most exclusive of all exclusive residential clubs.
We’ve recently represented a buyer for the second-to-last oceanfront parcel at Kuki’o More »
$500,000 Reduction – Hualalai Auction Drops Reserve Price
Posted by Katie Minkus, R(BIC) on June 22nd, 2010 |
Tags: Big Island, Hawaii, Hualalai, Kohala Coast, Luxury, News
Today Concierge Auctions announced that a gorgeous Hualalai Estate being auctioned on July 1, 2010 on Hawaii’s Big Island, has reduced the reserve price by $500,000.
Buy this Hualalai Estate for half a million dollars less…
That means some lucky buyer out there may just have saved themselves one-half million dollars before the auction even starts! Action price starts at $5.4M
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