The Hawaii Team Real Estate Blog
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...
December Featured Restaurant & Activity
Featured Activity: Dive with the Mantas Dive enthusiasts and those who love ocean adventures can’t say enough about the opportunity in Kona to swim with the Manta Rays. Getting in the water after dark is adventurous enough, but to view and be close to these gentle,...
Featured Restaurant & Activity for November
Featured Activity - Walking tour of Kailua-KonaKailua Pier, every Wednesday at 9:30am History buffs will want to take this walking tour of Kailua-Kona and learn about the many historical places in this seaside village. The tours are led by Pelena Keeling, a lifelong...
“What Am I Paying For?”
These days, with all the discussions about commissions in the news, the new real estate rules, etc. every consumer is asking themselves the same question, which is, “what am I paying for?” I think it’s an excellent question and a question every real estate agent...
September Market Sales Statistics
Real Estate sales in the Resorts continued to be sluggish in September, the one bright spot being six condominium sales at Mauna Lani Resort. Otherwise, there were just two home sales – one each in Kohanaiki and Kūki`o. Other sales - condominiums - were limited to...
August Sales Statistics for the Big Island Resort Areas
Resort real estate sales were slow in the month of August, perhaps partly a reflection of the flat visitor numbers during what is normally a fairly active month for vacationers. There were just four condo sales and four home sales to end the summer. Home sales were...
I Thought Service in This Country Was Dead, Until…
By Dan Polimino OK, I’m guilty. Maybe I threw in the towel too fast. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve uttered the phrase, “can you get me your supervisor,” because I was getting nowhere with Customer Service. I really thought customer service is completely dead in...