The Hawaii Team Real Estate Blog
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...
Hawaii Market Stats for November 2024
Mauna Lani Resort led real estate sales in November with closings on four condominiums and one home. There were three condominium closings at Waikoloa Beach Resort and one home sale at Hualālai Resort to round out November real estate sales in the resorts. Although...
October Real Estate Sales Stats for The Big Island of Hawaii
There was a sprinkling of Real Estate sales in the Resorts in October. Two home sales and one condominium sale closed Hualālai Resort. Waikoloa Beach Resort and Mauna Lani Resort each recorded three condominium sales; there was one condominium sale in Mauna Kea Resort...
Three Reasons Not to Hire Me
Seems like a strange title, doesn’t it? I’ve been studying consumers and more specifically real estate consumers for almost 20 years. Over that time, I think I really have been able to dial in on what consumers want and what consumers need. I also think that’s been a...