If you ever had a chance to take a vacation on the Kohala Coast of Hawaii (also called the Gold Coast) don’t tell me you never thought that your vacations were not long enough and that you were not already dreaming about coming back as soon as you left the island. When you think of Hawaiian white sand [...]
Stat-a-palooza time now that 2011 is over and the new year begun. We put together some interesting stats for West Hawaii condo and residential sales. These stats cover the area from Keauhou to Waimea (TMK 3-6 and 3-7). It’s interesting to note here how similar these graphs are even though one could make the case that [...]
We blogged recently about Unit A4, the only townhouse available at the Waikoloa Beach Villas. It was listed at $450,000 then and we thought it was a good deal. These 3 bedroom townhomes sold in the mid $800K range at the height of the market. The list price on A4 has just been reduced to $429K, [...]
The story of 2011 for the Halii Kai condo market was not so much short sales and foreclosures, as it was the developer close out. As we head into the final week of the year, they have closed on 25 Halii Kai units, have two condos in escrow, and are negotiating on two more deals. [...]
Just catching up on the condo sales in the Waikoloa Beach Resort through November 2011:
Unit A4 is the only townhouse available at the Waikoloa Beach Villas and it’s in a great location overlooking the lawn and garden area, just steps to the pool, workout room, and BBQ’s. Unit A4 (MLS# 243992) is 1,874 sq. ft. with one bedroom downstairs, and two bedrooms and a loft upstairs. This unit has [...]
If you have read my blog about the September sales update, you already know that the community of Hali’i Kai is getting the most attention from buyers. The month of October (2011) ended with only 2 condo sales at Waikoloa Beach Resort and both were at Hali’i Kai, the ideal place to enjoy the Waikoloa [...]
Killer opportunity! There are two adjoined penthouse suites for sale (being sold separately) in Halii Kai’s premiere oceanfront, gated community in Waikoloa Beach Resort. Both condos have ocean, golf course, and sunset/sunrise views from all four lanais. These condos have never before been offered for sale, have never been rented, and are in pristine condition! [...]
Condo sales dipped in the Waikoloa Beach Resort in September to one unit sold. No doubt, the turmoil in the economy is having a bearing on sales. While you might expect lower sales in September, since it is the beginning of the low tourism season, escrows closed in September reflect transactions begun in July and [...]
During the month of September 2011, the community of Hali’i Kai was the shining star at Waikoloa Beach Resort with 4 condo sales out of a total of 6. Buyers didn’t wait for the whale season to start to take ownership on the Kohala Coast!
When the Waikoloa Beach Villas were being built several years ago, the third floor “penthouse” units were the first to sell out. There were several reasons for this: they offered incredible sweeping views of the golf course fairway and lake beyond each of the bedrooms has an extra window (great for cross ventilation) the living [...]
I almost titled this blog “Where have all the foreclosures gone?”—which my quirky brain started singing to me this morning as I pulled up a very short list of Kohala Coast resort condos that are listed as “REOs” (Real Estate Owned by a bank after the foreclosure process). I haven’t heard “screaming deal” tossed around [...]
We are almost halfway through the month of September, when Fall is supposedly considered our “slow season,” and I am receiving more emails from buyers arriving at the end of the month or mid-October. It sounds like some of these buyers are repeat visitors with similar thoughts—time to buy with prices and interest rates being [...]
We’ve been tracking condo sales in the Waikoloa Beach Resort. The graph below shows the number of units sold for each month in 2011. Of the 5 sales recorded in August, 4 were REO (foreclosure) and 1 was a short sale.
It’s tempting to be distracted from real estate tasks when I can watch dazzling live coverage of U.S. Open tennis matches with stars like Federer, Nadal, Venus Williams, Sharapova and Djokovic. If you’re a tennis enthusiast, you know that the event is full of barn-burning matches with American attention-getters like Donald Young, Ryan Harrison, and Christina [...]
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