With all the success of our website, it was bound to happen. With the pressure from seller's wanting to list their homes on Hawaii's #1 real estate website, HawaiiLIfe.com made the transition into a full service real estate brokerage.

We have been open for a little over a week and we already have more than $10 million in listings and 5 agents. We also welcome aboard Matt Beall, R - our new principal broker who previously had great success over at C21.

Opening our first office on Kauai is an exciting move for us and we will be opening offices on Maui, Oahu and the Big Island shortly.

That's right, you can now buy the same highly rated, search engine friendly, real estate search software that powers the www.hawaiilife.com lead generation website for your own broker or agent website at a mere fraction of the development cost.

HawaiiLife.com plans to sell the web 2.0 software under its sister company, realappy.com which will be launching its website later this month. The software has been rated as one of the top real estate interfaces in the world by Inman News' Joel Burslem in his article 10 Kick Ass Real Estate Search Sites.

Websites start at $2,000. Learn more about pricing information and full details of the software here. Special pricing for the month of May 2008 is available. Please contact me:

Justin Britt
808-826-0026
justin@hawaiilife.com

HawaiiLife.com has been absolutely crushing the lead generation scene out in Hawaii and we've been kicking around the idea of opening up in another area for quite some time now. Well, the time has come and we have decided to make a push into the Southern California area.

We Need Brokerages who can handle leads!
We need 1 brokerage for each MLS in SoCal. We are looking to work with brokers in the Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego area, etc.

What we do
We have one of the best real estate search interfaces in the world. Don't take my word for it, read this article:

10 Kick Ass Real Estate Search Sites

We are experts in search engine marketing. Again, don't take my word for it, just try a search in Google for:

Hawaii real estate
Oahu real estate

Currently we get about 60,000 unique visitors to our Hawaii site and have a 0.96% lead capture rate. We will bring the same software and Search engine marketing skills to SoCal (which should generate much more traffic). If you are interested in creating a business relationship and working our leads (and have a team that can actually handle the quantity of leads we're talking about), please contact me for details.

justin@hawaiilife.com
808-826-0026

If you are a broker in another area and are interested in setting up a kick ass real estate website in your town, contact me, we are looking to expand. Maybe your city will be next!

Today we made some minor, but super important upgrades to HawaiiLife.com.

1. We added a mortgage calculator to the property detail pages as this has been requested numerous times by our users. Sorry for taking so long to get it up!
2. We added a search box from the home page. Another multiple requested item.

Hope you like the new features. We will be adding the ability to save properties and searches over the next couple of days. If you have any other suggestions, please let us know.

The same software that runs the award winning HawaiiLife.com website will be available to agents and brokerages throughout the US in May 2008. This decision to sell the IDX solution that displays listings on a map came about because of the numerous requests to buy our software.

Of course the website is great at displaying properties, but we our most proud of the site's ability as a lead generator. We have worked very hard on conversion rates and know from experience that website can generate a lot of leads.

Our hope is that buy allowing other agents to use our solution we will create a better Internet research experience for home buyers across the nation.

Any one who is interested should contact me at justin@hawaiilife.com or leave a post here.

We would like to throw out a big MAHALO to Joel Burslem of Inman News who recently ranked HawaiiLife.com among the 10 best real estate experiences online today. You can read the post on his blog titled:

10 Kick Ass Real Estate Search Sites

Of course we are very proud of this accomplishment and happy to hear our name in the same breath as Century21, Windermere and Redfin. We would also like to thank Joe one more time because it was through his blog, The Future of Real Estate Marketing, that many of our ideas and inspiration for the website were first nurtured.

Kauai’s current real estate trend shows a shift towards a buyer’s market in 2007. This change can be attributed to a growing inventory as property sales slow through the first half of the year.

Compared to the same time last year, the overall number of properties sold is down 52%. Vacant land and condo sales were the largest contributing factors, with sales falling 66% and 64% respectively. Residential homes sales were less effected, showing an 11% dip.

Kauai’s median sales prices paint a different picture. Year to date, median sales prices have increased 26.5%. This is an indication that Kauai real estate continues to rise in value. Generally, one would think that median sales prices would decrease as demand for property fell. However, Kauai poses a unique real estate market due to the limited amount of land available for development.

So how does this affect you, the buyer? With a large inventory of property and a limited amount of buyers, motivated sellers will need to reconsider the asking price of their property. With the help of a buyer’s agent who knows the inventory, it could be a good time to put in a lower than normal offer to see if you can maximize the return on a piece of highly valued Kauai real estate.