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Wow, it's worse than I thought,   According to the California Association of Realtors home sales are off 33% in December as compared to December of 2006.   Prices are not off that bad, dropping only 16 1/2 per-cent.   Prices in the Bay area are holding better with a comparable drop of only .2%.  ...
01/29/2008
I put a blog in Active Rain yesterday concerning a really urgent issue.  The legal community in Hawaii has done an end run on us that will allow them to take a huge chunk of an agent's commission if their initiative passes.  Every Realtor needs to pay immediate attention to this issue.  See my BL...
01/22/2008
The Hawaii State Bar Association is muscling in on the Real Estate Business in Hawaii BIG TIME!   Hawai'i Rules of the Supreme Court, Proposed Rule Regarding the Unauthorized Practice of Law The Legal Profession has just done an end run on us in Hawaii.  They are proposing that the Hawaii Supreme...
01/21/2008
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A Sunrise in Kailua is like none anywhere in the world!   It is just and absolutely splendid.   It is not unusual for us to awaken to a site like this from our home in Kaimalino in Kailua!   What a wonderful place to live.  We are generally favored with this kind of view in the winter when we hav...
01/19/2008
Just by way of comparison with the earlier report on the home market on Kauai, Sales on the Big Island of Hawaii show a very different trend.  Sales of single-family homes there fell 20 percent and prices are off 6 percent.  Condos show a similar trend with sales off 31 percent while median price...
01/13/2008
Some pretty interesting stuff going on in the real estate market here in Hawaii.   There are some indications that off island money is starting to come into the market in increasing amounts as evidenced by some recent advances in prices.  Kauai is noteworthy in this regard as condo prices there a...
01/13/2008
It appears that we may get our Hawaii State Bureau of Conveyances to move into the modern era as they are planning to convert to an on-line records system.  This will allow owners to opt out of a manual process beset with bureaucratic logjams of the first order.   This may also help with the iden...
01/11/2008
There are a couple of new laws taking affect this year in Hawaii that we all need to know about.   Our legislature passed two tax cut laws last year that will grant a tax credit up to $160.to our low end wage earners     The state will try again to regulate health insurance rates.   I would guess...
01/04/2008
According to the Honolulu board of Realtors, HBR, single family home sales on Oahu are off 10% in 2007.   Condo sales were off almost 14% in the same period.   Median prices for Single Family Homes were up 2.1% and Condos up 4.8% for the same period.    This kind of reduction in the number of hom...
01/02/2008
Our hotel room occupancy in December was approximately 9 per-cent lower than in December 06.  As of last week our occupancy was just over 60 per-cent.   This is not good.  Kauai increased their occupancy rate to 56.6%, just behind Oahu and Maui dropped 8.7% to come in just a little higher than Oa...
12/31/2007
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