Town/Dry Side Waimea, Low Inventory, Increasing Prices, and Velocity of Sales According to MLS data, there are presently only 13 active listings between $500,000 and $1,000,000, from town to dryside Waimea, and prices are on the rise. Year over year, in this market (from 2010 to 2011), there was a 50% INCREASE in sales with [...]
This short video was taken in the area between Kailua-Kona and Waikoloa Village: We left Kona at about 1:30p.m.—it was cloudy in town as we headed up Palani Road to Mamalahoa Hwy., but it opened up to sunny blue skies with some clouds. Below is a map of the highway we took.
In real estate, a general rule is six months of inventory to sell is a neutral market. If you have over six months inventory—or excess inventory—it is considered a buyer’s market. So, a seller’s market is when the inventory is under six months. Inventory is arrived at by looking at sales over the past year [...]
My Rotary Club is putting the finishing touches on our annual fundraiser, Oktoberfest, and it looks like this Friday there will be plenty of fun and food flowing along with the beer. The festivities will happen quickly for this year’s Oktoberfest—running from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Pukalani Stables in Waimea, just behind the Parker [...]
Waimea is known for its beautiful green hills and its peaceful rural life amidst the people, horses, cattle, lambs, and goats that roam those hills, but that peace could be shattered soon, as Coqui frogs are reported to have started to invade Waimea!
Last month’s sales for the Big Island’s Waimea are in, and while it was a good month for the number of sales, the average sales price continues to drop. The total number of sales for September was 10 sales, down slightly from 11 in August. Sales between wet and dry side were evenly split with 5 for each [...]
Aloha! I recently previewed some homes in Waimea for a mainland client and I thought this was a cute house (MLS# 242711) in a great neighborhood of Mokuloa Subdivision.
Aloha! I recently toured a gorgeous ranch estate (MLS# 239295) off Mud Lane in Waimea for a client and I wanted to share it with you! Waikoekoe Lane is a sustainable ranch community off-the-grid on the Green Side between Waimea and Honoka’a.
Would you like to know what’s happening in the Big Island’s town of Waimea (Kamuela) this Labor Day holiday weekend? Or really any weekend? It’s simple, just take a drive to the town bulletin board at the stoplight when you come into town by the post office.
In looking at last months real estate home sales for the Big Island town of Waimea (Kamuela), the dry side had a slight lead over the wet side. Most of the dry side sales came from that side’s new subdivision—Lualai, where two new developer homes and one resale home closed in July. The high sale of [...]
June was an active month for home sales in the Big Island’s town of Waimea (Kamuela) with a total of 13 home sales closed last month. It is interesting that Waimea had a strong month, while nearby Waikoloa had slow home sales in June with only 4 sales. In looking at the number of sales [...]
The 4th of July is rodeo time in Big Island’s Waimea (Kamuela). The 4th of July may be beach time and fireworks for many Hawaiians, but on the Big Island, the 4th of July means horse races and rodeo time in Waimea (Kamuela). On Monday, July 4th, Parker Ranch will celebrate their 49th Annual Independence Weekend [...]
Some of you are reading this from just around the corner, while others are halfway around planet Earth. In the world of social networking and the internet, this seems like the best and most environmentally friendly way to let you all know that I am enthusiastically pursuing a new career path! Working with people in [...]
Home sales for April were down in numbers with a total of only 7 sales compared to 13 sales for March, but many of the sales were for higher priced dry side homes. These homes are in price ranges that haven’t seen much sales activity in the past few years. There were two sales in Sandalwood and [...]
Obsidian from Hawaiian volcanoes is a rare commodity since our volcanoes have very little silica in their flow. Archaeologists have identified Pu’u Wa’a Wa’a as the lone mount having obsidian today. I have been told of an obsidian field in Kawaihae on land that used to belong to a former sea captain in the days [...]
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