Keahi Pelayo's (honolulurealtoranimal) Blog

September 14th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs As a Honolulu Realtor that is in the core Honolulu real estate market everyday, I am sensing that it would like to start moving up!  Because the banking industry has instituted very tight lending and appraising guidelines, t...

September 11th, 2009 categories: Honolulu House For Sale It is not often that I walk into a property and wonder to myself, “Why hasn’t this property sold?” That happened this past Wednesday when I visited this well presented Honolulu home.  Located in one of Honolulu’s most desirable neighborhood...

September 10th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Condominiums Part of being a successful Honolulu Realtor is staying on top of the available inventory (homes and condos for sale).  This involves seeing properties that are listed for sale in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and, time permitting, homes ...

September 9th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Honolulu Vintage Homes The age of Honolulu’s existing housing stock means that it is not unusual to see an older home being torn down to make way for a new one.  Typically, heavy equipment is brought to the site and the old home is literal...

September 8th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 A recent Honolulu Advertiser article notes that Hawaii’s life expectancy has been pegged as the longest in the United States. “Yesterday’s report did not list life expectancy by state, but a 2007 report said Hawai’i was No. 1 with a life ex...

September 4th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs If you are a buyer waiting for the Honolulu home market to bottom out, then you may not want to wait much longer.  Wednesday and Thursday’s posts pay a great deal of attention to how low core Honolulu’s inventory has become a...

September 3rd, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs Here we go again!  The Honolulu Board of Realtors issues it’s monthly statistical report and the local newspapers read the runes and tell us what they think is really going on. Below are the headlines and a little of what eac...

September 2nd, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs In past posts I have made a distinction between the core of Honolulu’s real estate market and the rest of the island of Oahu.  Furthermore, for many reasons (see past post), as a Honolulu Realtor I believe that this core area...

September 1st, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs As Honolulu Realtor, I can’t say that our market has not experienced a decline from the highs of 2005 and 2006.  However, it seems core Honolulu houses and condos have fair better than the neighbor islands and other parts of ...

August 31st, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 For the right seller of a Honolulu home or condo, owner financing can offer an excellent way to earn a good return the equity in your home and get your it sold.  The Wall Street Journal had a recent article that talked about whether or not a ...