This week saw a continuation of the foreclosure pace that we’ve been experiencing for most of 2010. How do I know? I monitor our market since it’s small and easy to get to the courthouse every day. Kauai foreclosures can be judicial or non-judicial, through the courts, or not through the courts. The judicial foreclosures [...]
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Selling stumbling blocks in today’s market. In an effort to maximize their proceeds from the sale of their home, some sellers are looking for discounted commissions, limited Broker services, and still overpricing their homes so they “have room to negotiate.” Are these good strategies for 2011? Here are a few things to consider when deciding [...]
“I’m waiting for the market to reach bottom before I buy!” I hear that a lot these days. People are out there looking. They are finding homes they like that are priced much lower than they were 2 years ago, but some are hesitating because they aren’t sure that the “market has hit bottom yet.” Waiting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Condo sales for Waikoloa Village dropped to almost nothing in October with just one sale for the entire month. The sole sale for last month was an Elima Lani short sale for unit #102 that closed at $120,000. This was a ground floor golf course frontage condo. While sales were slow, there was activity in [...]
There was no activity at our courthouse in Lihue on Thursday, Veterans Day, but the foreclosure auction totals for this week was similar to those in previous weeks because of a development in foreclosure. Of the 67 auctions scheduled through November 12th, 12 of them were for Poipu Aina Estates, a land development of multi-acreage [...]
If you’ve ever dreamed of owning a vacation home on Kauai, I found one the other day that is a gem! It is a stunningly furnished and decorated 5 bedroom/5 full-bath home, with over 3,300 sq. ft. of luxurious living space so close to the ocean that you can hear the waves crashing, and smell the [...]
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