The Hawaii Team Real Estate Blog
Big Island Featured Restaurant & Activity for April
Featured Activity: Kuleana Rum Works Mai Tais is one of Hawai`iʻ s iconic cocktails, but did you know Hawai`i Island is also home to Kuleana Rum Works, a company which crafts award-winning rum from the fresh juice of sugar cane grown on its farm in North Kohala? If...
I’m the Short-Term Guy!
I took a phone call from a consumer this week and as we started the phone call, he said to me, “Hey, you’re the short-term guy”! At which I replied, “What?” He said, “Yeah, I watch all your YouTube videos on short term vacation rentals and they’re valuable...
February Sales Stats for the Big Island Resort Areas
With the exception of Kūki`o, all the resorts showed some sales activity in February. Single digit home sales were reorded in Kohanaiki, Mauna Lani Resort and Kona Hills; Hualālai led the way with three home sales. In the condominium market, Kohanaiki and Waikoloa...
Big Island Featured Restaurant & Activity for March
Featured Activity: Hulihe`e Palace Maybe you’ve heard about it; maybe you’ve walked by it as you’ve strolled Ali`i Drive. If you are interested in Hawai`i’s history and you haven’t toured Hulihe`e Palace, perhaps you should. Hulihe‘e is a museum showcasing artifacts...
January 2025 Sales Statistics for the Big Island Resort Areas
Waikoloa Beach Resort led real estate sales in January with closings on six condominiums, followed by two condominium sales in Hualālai Resort and Mauna Kea Resort, single condo sales in Kohanaiki and Kūki`o. There was one home sale apiece in Hualālai, Mauna Lani...
The State of Real Estate
It’s that time of year again. I just returned from our annual conference in Las Vegas called Family Reunion. Every year the chairman and founder of Keller Williams, Gary Keller, gives what he calls “The Vision Speech” of real estate to about 20,000 of us who have...
Big Island Stays Featured Rental
First a Big Mahalo to all of those who reached out after we made our exciting announcement last month on our acquisition of Big Island Stays Property Management. I heard from so many of you with congratulatory messages and many of you reached out and said, “Dan we...
January’s Featured Restaurant & Activity
Featured Activity: Volcanoes National Park If you haven’t been, or itʻs been awhile since you visited, now is the perfect time for a visit to the Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. For visitors, the park is not-to-be-missed highlight of any trip to the Island of...
Announcing “Big Island Stays”
Well, people have been asking me to do it for years and now I have finally done it. What am I talking about? As you know, I’ve been helping people buy second homes and vacation rentals here on the island for years. Each time we go through the process, at some point...
2024 Year-End Statistics for Big Island Real Estate
Year End Resort Area Market Stats Kohanaiki Single Family Homes – TSales on 11 Kohanaiki homes closed in 2024, with prices ranging from $4.95M to $14.5M. The homes averaged a 100.18% Sale/Current Price or $9,071,543.73 and were on the market for an average of 9...
Featured Restaurant & Activity for the New Year
Featured Activity: Whale Watching Between now and April Hawai`i welcomes our “biggest” visitors – the Humpback whales. Two-thirds of the entire North Pacific humpback whale population return to Hawaiʻi to breed, calve and nurse their young each year. They race more...
Living With Purpose
It’s that time of year again and for those of you who have been following my blog and articles, both when I wrote for the newspaper and now online, you know that in the month of December I never write about business. I’ve always believed there are 364 days of the year...