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Great Honolulu Vintage Home
March 12th, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs
This house took my breath away! It is located in Moiliili and is one of the best vintage home examples I have seen in many years.
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Vintage Honolulu Home
March 11th, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs
Even though this home looks rough, it has great bones and possibilities. Imagine what effort and sweat could do to make it very, very charming.
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Honolulu Vintage Home Porch
March 10th, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs
Kaimuki seems to be the home of some of the best examples of vintage Hawaiian architecture. Enjoy this very clean porch.
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Another Honolulu Vintage Home
March 9th, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs
Here is another vintage Honolulu home that I found Kaimuki. It is an example of the classic bungalow on a postage stamp size lot. Thankfully, someone is remodeling this home.
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Honolulu Vintage Home
March 8th, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs
I found this Honolulu home in Kaimuki in the 8th Avenue area. The rock-work on the front porch caught my attention. Enjoy.
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Throw The Bums Out! Honolulu Property Tax To Increase?
February 26th, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs, The Market
It’s no surprise that the State of Hawaii and the City and County of Honolulu are short of dollars. The disappointing issue is the lack of discussion concerning spending cuts! Both the State and City have been spending beyond their means for sometime, yet the only solutions being proposed are increases in fees and taxes. According to a Honolulu Advertiser article, the State is trying to discontinue sending the Transient Accommodations Tax to the City; as a result the City is considering raising property taxes.
“Honolulu Managing Director Kirk Caldwell said the city likely will increase tax rates on second homes or investment properties even if the city receives its cut of the TAT funds. He said that at this point, owner-occupants are not being considered for property tax increases.” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE HONOLULU ADVERTISER ARTICLE
Here’s my political commentary for the day, we need to “throw the bums out” and elect representatives that see government’s role in our life as limited. This means that many of the things the City and State are now doing should be cut and returned to the private sector. The solution to our current problems will not come from increasing taxes on an already over taxed populace.
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Hilton Hawaiian Village Ranks High In Value
February 24th, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs
Honolulu’s Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort has just named one of the 10 best family resorts in the United States and Caribbean by Parents Magazine.
“Evaluation criteria included range of family activities, quality and uniqueness of supervised children’s programs, size and quality of rooms, safety factors such as lifeguards, fun features for parents, and overall financial value.” CLICK HERE TO READ THE PACIFIC BUSINESS NEWS ARTICLE
Hawaii’s high rankings for this and many other resorts assure a bright future for our tourism industry (one of the key drivers of our economy). This translates to a strong engine for ongoing appreciation in Honolulu real estate.
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“Slumburbia” in Honolulu?
February 23rd, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs, The Market
Timothy Egan, writes a real estate blog at the New York Times on-line and his headline “Slumburbia” really caught my eye. The main point of his post is that some real estate markets in the U.S. are so over built that they have become vacant slums in suburbia.
“Drive along foreclosure alley, through new planned communities that look like tile-roofed versions of a 21st century ghost town, and you see what happens when people gamble with houses instead of casino chips.” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE BLOG
My readers know that I focus my attention on Oahu and Honolulu. Here is the good news, due to the limited amount of developable land on the island and unmet demand for affordable houses, our market would be very hard to overbuild to the extent that they have in the mainland. Furthermore, in core Honolulu, there is no significant parcel of land available for building single-family homes. Thus, in this core area, it is nearly impossible to add enough houses to come close to swamping the market.
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If You Want To Be Healthy, Move To Honolulu
February 18th, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs
The Honolulu Advertiser is reporting that Oahu is the healthiest place in Hawaii to live. If the weather, economy and life style weren’t enough, now you shouldn’t have any excuses for not packing up and moving to Honolulu!
“O’ahu is the healthiest place to live in Hawai’i, according to a new report that ranks the overall health of counties throughout the nation.” CLICK HERE TO READ THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER ARTICLE
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Slow Housing Starts Leading To Honolulu Housing Shortage?
February 16th, 2010 categories: Rants & Riffs, The Market
Never forget the old saying, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” As most of you know the number of homes being built has slowed and Forbes.com has a really good article showing that this could lead to a housing shortage.
“We need one and a half million houses per year just to keep up with population growth,” Wesbury said in an interview with Steve Forbes. “And then if you throw in, you know, fires and tear-downs and just worn-out properties, we need 1.6 million or more per year. Right now, we’re down to about six and a half, seven months’ inventory whether you look at new homes or existing homes.”
“Privately owned housing starts in December 2009 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 557,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 4% less than where it was in November, which had 580,000 housing starts.” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE
If this is the case and you don’t yet own a home, you may want to buy a house or condo now. A housing shortage would mean that there would be dramatic pressure for prices to go up!
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