Keahi Pelayo's (honolulurealtoranimal) Blog

September 30th, 2009 categories: Buying Honolulu Real Estate, Honolulu Real Estate 101 Robert Shiller is well known for being part of the Case Shiller home price index and in today’s Wall Street Journal on-line he is very candid in an interview concerning the current state of the national real es...

September 29th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Condominiums, Honolulu House For Sale Here are more interesting Honolulu home and condo listings that have come up for sale over the last days. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE POST

September 28th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs For the last few months, I have been saying that the diversity of the Honolulu economy is one of the main reasons our real estate market has not been hit as hard as the neighbor islands.  This morning’s Pacific Business News...

September 25th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101 502 posts and about 375 hours later, here we are today. My odyssey in blogging germinated 20 months ago while I sat at a seminar listening to a talk about the power of the Internet.  It became clear then and that as time goes by the Intern...

September 24th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs It is always fun to work with a family moving from the mainland to Honolulu.  An inevitable part of a home purchase is helping orient my client to the cultural nuances of living in Hawaii.  One of the local practices I alway...

September 23rd, 2009 categories: Rants & Riffs Pacific Business News is reporting the following. “With the increase, the state’s median income ranked 5th in the nation in 2008, the same ranking it had in 2007.” CLICK HERE TO READ THE PACIFIC BUSINESS ARTICLE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE POST

September 17th, 2009 categories: Honolulu House For Sale Perfect for extended family living!  3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms upstairs and a separate 1 bedroom 1 bathroom downstairs (it cannot be rented). This home is listed for sale by another real estate firm.  Here are the details. CLICK HERE TO READ T...

September 16th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs Pacific Business News reported that Honolulu has the 20th strongest performing economy in the United States. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE POST.

September 15th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Condominiums, Honolulu House For Sale As a Honolulu Realtor, I have almost immediate access to the most recently listed homes and condos.  For clarity, these listings are offered by other real estate firms and I have not yet seen them (they are too new), ...

September 14th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs As a Honolulu Realtor that is in the core Honolulu real estate market everyday, I am sensing that it would like to start moving up!  Because the banking industry has instituted very tight lending and appraising guidelines, t...