I took my dog whale watching along the oceanfront near Hawi this morning. Technically, it was his daily run, but this time of year most of our favorite places to walk offer fabulous opportunities to spot whales. From home I can see whether the windmills near Hawi’s Upolu Airport are turning lazily, briskly, or not [...]
Most of the entry level and moderately priced homes for sale in rural North Kohala are plantation-era homes clustered along the main streets: Akoni Pule Highway, Hawi Rd., Kynnersley Road. I’m often asked whether there are more private neighborhoods outside of the expensive gated communities such as Puakea Bay Ranch.
There are currently eight oceanfront parcels of raw land listed for sale in North Kohala, the district to the north of the Kohala Coast resorts. They are priced from $594,000 for one of the oceanfront lots at Kohala Waterfront to $21,500,000 for a 63-acre parcel with subdivision approval on the same stretch of coast. I [...]
Regular readers of my blog posts may wonder whatever happened to that bank-owned Hawi oceanfront mansion, or the foreclosed beachfront homes in Kolea on the Kohala Coast I wrote about in a post two months ago?
Hawai’i Life’s Big Island Broker-in-Charge, Katie Minkus, sent me an email inviting me to download the LocalMind “app” to my smart phone. Evidently, she thinks it will be useful for my real estate practice “to send questions to people checked in around your neighborhood to find out what’s happening there right now. You can use [...]
I am suddenly getting a lot of inquiries on two oceanfront properties that are “REOs”—real estate owned by the bank after foreclosure. I’ve blogged about both of these oceanfront homes before, but right now I’m getting the same questions over and over, probably because buyers are starting to get serious about the details. Both of [...]
Real estate buyers who have looked elsewhere on the Big Island—Kailua Kona or Waikoloa Village for example—often get sticker shock when they fall in love with Hawi-Kapaau in North Kohala.
When you make the move from being a visitor to being a property-owning resident of one of our more traditional Big Island communities, you’ll discover that family and personal milestones are often celebrated with a luau. Here in Hawi, North Kohala, the local Lion’s Club’s annual luau is a fundraiser for the club’s charitable giving [...]
Congratulations, Beth Thoma Robinson! At Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers, we don’t typically spend a lot of time focusing on things like “top producer” awards, statuettes, or trips around the world (although that would be nice, especially on a private jet). Sometimes, we regrettably fall short when it comes to accolades. Hopefully, this is not [...]
The first auction sale date came and went without offers, but as of today there is a bid showing in the second round of the on-line auction on the Hawi mansion (MLS# 244454) that is for sale by the bank after foreclosure. The current bid price is $4,224,000…which implies to me that there may be [...]
Eventual buyers of historic North Kohala real estate usually discover the attractions of the Big Island’s north shore from Hawi to Pololu as tourists. They come for a zip line, or ditch ride, or to have dinner at Hawi’s Bamboo restaurant. They stop at the statue of Kamehameha I in Kapa’au and learn that this [...]
Six months ago, I reported on three foreclosure auctions set for Hawi properties, including a luxury-class oceanfront estate. That property reverted to the lender, as so often happens at foreclosure auctions…I’ve been keeping my eyes open, but was taken by surprise to see it released in the MLS yesterday with fine print describing the auction process. [...]
Just like the song says, “farm living is the life for me!” I live the real life version of Green Acres everyday on my farm in Hawi, a quaint little town on the northern tip of the Kohala Coast. Being a city girl like Eva Gabor’s character on the 60′s TV show “Green Acres,” I [...]
Three times a week, I treat myself to the amazing vistas on a drive up the Kohala Coast from Puako Beach, to Kapa’au, for yoga. Driving south on the Kohala “Gold” Coast Saturday afternoon about 5 pm…gorgeous In Kapa’au, I had such an amazing yoga practice on Saturday morning, I pondered the similarities between yoga and [...]
A year ago, I helped clients purchase a 40+ acre parcel with a small Balinese-style home on the Hamakua Coast. We’d started out looking at a residence in the Hawi area then listed for $1.3 million. The property they purchased had a similar asking price, but we were able to steal it for much less due [...]
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