The annual Cherry Blossom Festival takes place this Saturday, Feb. 4th in Waimea. A part of the agenda is the Festival of Quilts, which will take place in the Kahilu Hall from 9 am to 3 pm. Kahilu Hall is located right across from the Kahilu Theater near the post office. “Tropical Bamboo” by Marion [...]
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 [...]
With Chinese New Year behind us, the next big cultural event for the Big Island will be the annual Waimea Cherry Blossom Festival. This year, the festival will be on Saturday, February 4th in various locations around Waimea – just look for the pink banners marking site locations. The cherry trees at Church Road should be [...]
November home sales for the Big Island’s Waimea were quite varied as they ranged from a home in Vacationland, sold at $99,900, to a large home in the premier area of Kamuela Heights that sold at $699,000. These two homes also showed the wide range in days on market running from one day to just [...]
In looking at Waimea homes for sale, one useful tool is to look at the inventory of homes for sale. If there is more than a six month supply of homes, it is considered a buyer’s market; if there is an inventory of homes for sale under six months, that is considered a seller’s market. Currently, [...]
The Big Island town of Waimea has over 80 homes for sale at this time with an average listing price of $535,810. In October, there were a total of 12 homes sold in Waimea with a healthy average sales price of $448,117. These are good numbers for both total sales and average sales price. There were [...]
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!
This Saturday, September 17, as part of the 30 Days of Aloha Celebration, the 36th Annual Waimea Paniolo Parade will take place in Waimea starting at 10 a.m. at Church Row and proceeding to Waimea Park. This parade is one of two annual parades that will close down Waimea for the time of the parade, as the main [...]
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 [...]
As a member of E Mau NÄ Ala Hele (a community-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization devoted to preserving and perpetuating the historic trails of Hawaii, and the protection of historic and natural areas adjacent to the trails), my husband and I are also volunteers on a sub-committee striving to “keep public places public.” This week, we had [...]
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 [...]
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