honolulu real estate: Honolulu Rated One Of World’s Most Livable Cities! - 06/23/09 07:41 AM
June 23rd, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 Since I live here, I think Honolulu is one of the world’s most lovable cities, however, Pacific Business News posted an article today that Monocle Magazine placed Honolulu among the world’s most livable cities.
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honolulu real estate: New Hawaii Law Is Electrifying! - 06/22/09 01:37 PM
June 22nd, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 If you are thinking of selling your Honolulu house or condominium, please be aware that this years legislature passed a new law requiring a “good faith declaration of the electricity cost”
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honolulu real estate: Planning To Sell Your Honolulu Home Part Seven-Yard Prep - 06/19/09 07:32 AM
June 19th, 2009 categories: Honolulu House For Sale, Honolulu Real Estate 101 Here is the next post in my ongoing series on things to do before you put your Honolulu property on the market for sale.
7.  Clean up the yard.
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honolulu real estate: Planning To Sell Your Honolulu Home Part Six-Windows - 06/18/09 08:35 AM
June 18th, 2009 categories: Honolulu House For Sale, Honolulu Real Estate 101 Here is the next post in my ongoing series on things to do before you put your Honolulu property on the market for sale. 6.  Hire a professional window cleaner. Michael Yon is a self funded war correspondent that embeds with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq.  He has a hard and fast rule; he will not ride in a Humvee that has dirty windows!  Here’s the point,
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honolulu real estate: Planning To Sell Your Honolulu Home Part Five-Cleaning - 06/17/09 08:59 AM
June 17th, 2009 categories: Honolulu House For Sale, Honolulu Real Estate 101 There is no substitute for a clean home and this is why number five of my ongoing series has to do with having the home cleaned. 5.  Hire a professional cleaner. I know that most people are more than capable of cleaning their home.  Many of you probably take great pride in the fact that you clean your house every week or two.  When it comes to selling a Honolulu home or condominium, I have found that most professional cleaners will provide a level of cleaning that will help … (0 comments)

honolulu real estate: Planning To Sell Your Honolulu Home Part Four-Dealing With Clutter - 06/16/09 11:24 AM
June 16th, 2009 categories: Honolulu House For Sale, Honolulu Real Estate 101 This is my fourth installment for preparing your home for sale. 4.  Remove clutter. In Honolulu, if there are sins committed when selling a home, too much clutter has to be at the top of the list.  I see many houses and condominiums that would otherwise show very well, show poorly simply because they have so much “stuff” taking up space.  Here are a few rules to apply when taking clutter out of a home.
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honolulu real estate: Planning To Sell Your Honolulu Home Part Three-Disclosure - 06/15/09 09:38 AM
June 15th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 One of the most important rules in Honolulu real estate is to disclose, disclose and disclose more. Our attorneys tell us that there is no single form required by Hawaii law, however, the widely accepted form is the Hawaii Association of Realtors disclosure form titled the Seller’s Real Property Disclosure Statement (SRPDS).  This post is part of my ongoing series about preparing to sell your home.
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honolulu real estate: Planning To Sell Your Honolulu Home Part Two - 06/12/09 10:54 AM
June 12th, 2009 categories: Honolulu House For Sale, Honolulu Real Estate 101 This is part of my ongoing series concerning preparing to sell you Honolulu home or condominium.  Number two on my list of twelve things to do before you start marketing is as follows.
2. Have your property surveyed by a licensed land surveyor. Paragraph C-42 of the purchase contract (commonly known by Realtors as the “PC”) calls for a land survey of the home lots.
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honolulu real estate: Planning To Sell Your Honolulu Home? Start Here. - 06/11/09 09:21 AM
<!-- End of HEADER --> June 11th, 2009 categories: Honolulu House For Sale, Honolulu Real Estate 101 The housing turn over rate in Honolulu is much lower than other parts of the United States.  I have heard that the average homeowner in California will move to a new home every three to five years.  The last number I heard for Oahu is that the average house owner will sell every 18 years (this is an old number).  What does this mean?  Hawaii homeowners have much less experience selling a home than their counter-parts in the mainland. Here are 12 things to … (0 comments)

honolulu real estate: Honolulu Wearing Crown Again! - 06/08/09 10:06 AM
June 8th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs For most of my life Honolulu has had the most expensive housing prices in the nation. Then in the late 1990’s it was surpassed by other locales in the mainland.  Pacific Business News is reporting the following.
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honolulu real estate: HARPTA Could Be A Surprise For A Honolulu Seller - 06/04/09 09:05 AM
June 4th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 If you are not a resident of Hawaii and you are thinking about selling a property that you own here, then beware of the withholding tax under HARPTA Tax Law. Here is the short and simple version of the law.  If a non-resident of Hawaii sells a property not exempt from HARPTA, then 5% of the property sales price must be sent to the State of Hawaii.
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honolulu real estate: More On Honolulu Real Estate Statistics - 06/03/09 08:57 AM
June 3rd, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 In yesterday’s post, I noted that the Honolulu Board of Realtor monthly statistical report held 5 numbers that might show the Honolulu market in line for a short-term bump.
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honolulu real estate: Honolulu Real Estate Statistics, An Interpretation - 06/02/09 09:12 AM
June 2nd, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs This month’s Honolulu Board of Realtors statistical report has 18 pages of very interesting information.  Since the report was released yesterday afternoon, Honolulu’s local on-line newspapers (Honolulu Advertiser & Honolulu Star Bulletin) have yet to comment.  If I have to guess, I bet that they will be negative about the market!  Surface numbers such as median prices (down) and year on year sales comparisons (down 43.2%), look negative.  However, if you dig into the report, there are some encouraging numbers.  Here are five (5) that caught my eye.
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honolulu real estate: Honolulu Coop Flip Tax? - 05/28/09 08:24 AM
May 28th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 I had a conversation with a person in New York City and I surprise to learn that cooperatives charge a “Flip Tax” when a unit in the building is sold.  Apparently, if you own a cooperative in the City, the coop will paid a percentage of the sales price as a so-called “Flip Tax”.
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honolulu real estate: Old Sayings That Aren’t So Old! - 05/27/09 08:19 AM
May 27th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 , Rants & Riffs There are old sayings in the Honolulu real estate business, some are true and others are not.  Here are a five that I have found apply.
1.  “Your first offer is your best offer!” I have sold and observed the sale of thousands of properties and more times than not, the offer that gets the seller the most money is the first offer to come in.  Time and again an offer will come in early in the sales process, the price is not quite what a seller wants and … (0 comments)

honolulu real estate: Confidence Good For Honolulu Real Estate - 05/26/09 08:30 AM
May 26th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 Never fight a self-fulfilling prophecy! Today’s Honolulu Advertiser is reporting an increase in the Consumer Confidence index, the stock market is responding in a positive manner and many economists are saying the worst is behind us.
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honolulu real estate: Death By A Thousand Cuts! - 05/21/09 08:01 AM
May 21st, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs Like most municipalities, the City and County of Honolulu is falling short on the income side of budgetary planning.  In other words, they have more expenses than they have income.  Rather than cutting services, the City Council is attempting to increase property taxes.  Yesterday’s Honolulu Advertiser reports.
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honolulu real estate: When Down Is Up! - 05/20/09 08:26 AM
May 20th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Views of Honolulu News sources are reporting that housing starts, on the whole, have dropped significantly.  Yet read into the numbers and you find a different story.  The majority of the drop has been in apartment construction, but new home starts have increased!
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honolulu real estate: Is Taxing The “Rich” The Answer? - 05/18/09 08:09 AM
May 18th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs The Hawaii State Legislature raised the top income tax rate in Hawaii to 12% last week.
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honolulu real estate: Housing Market Bottoming? - 05/08/09 08:13 AM
May 8th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 This mornings Forbes.com had an article written by Robert Lenzner, a forecaster at Economic Cycle Research Institute.  He is bullish on the stock market and home prices.
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