Joe Segal's (hawaiirealestatereporter) Blog

The Market Keeps Growing Hotter! All market indicators point to stronger sales and rising prices: Sales for single family homes and condos in August are the highest they’ve been since 2007. Added to that, the number of properties available for sale, days on market, and months of remaining invent...

The Oahu market continues to heat up, as both median prices and number of sales increase. Single family home prices continue their seven-month trend upward. For the three-month period ending in July 2012, the median price for single family homes is up 9.8% to $636,900 and the median price for co...

  Second Quarter numbers are in and they reveal some interesting trends. Both the number of sales and sales prices continue to rise.  Number of sales for single family homes were up 1.2% and condominiums were up 0.7% compared to the same quarter last year.  The Median Price of  single family hom...

The Oahu real estate market is starting to heat up! Year over year, the median price of single family homes rose 9.0% and condominium prices rose 2.1% between the three-month period from March thru May. See the full story in the Oahu Real Estate Report Prices On The Rise It's no secret that pric...

Key Observations: The Oahu real estate market continues to be driven by low interest rates and low inventory levels. Year over year, the median price of single family homes rose 7.7% while prices for condominiums stayed flat.  This month, unit sales of single family homes were flat and condomini...

  State Wide Hawaii Real Estate Report Below is the State-Wide Hawaii Real Estate Report showing what happened in our markets during the month of March 2012. It includes aggregate real estate market statistics for the entire state of Hawaii, as well as the individual islands of Oahu, Maui, Big Is...

Key Observations: Prudential Locations reported that in the three months ending February 2012, the real estate market showed signs of stability with improvement in select neighborhoods as compared to the same time period last year. Stability in the market is the result of low interest rates, low ...

Third quarter sales numbers reveal interesting trends in the Oahu real estate market. Single family sales increased by 4.2% to 793 units within the three month period of July to September. The month of September closed with 274 sales, the highest number of single family sales so far in 2011. Simi...

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Another reinforcement to the"Lucky we live Hawaii" mantra.  Mainstreet.com just ranked Hawaii at #5 in it's first ever  "Happiness" index.  It achieved this ranking by scoring high (or Low) for a variety of different factors, including household income, debt, employment  and the number of foreclo...