DiamondHead Land a joint venture between an affiliate of California-based real estate company ProspectHill Group and Hawaii hotelier Pat Fitzgerald has closed on its acquisition of the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows. The group’s purchase is from the original resort developer and hotel owner-Tokyo Corporation. Pat Fitzgerald is also president of the Hualalai Resort.… Read More »

The phrase “Ke Kailani” translates to “The Sea Reaching for the Heavens”. The 65 acre community currently consists of 39 estate lots that are primarily located along the fairway of the Mauna Lani golf course with distant ocean views. In addition, the original developer built 4 of 8 planned “Villa” town home style, condominiums (3300… Read More »

This is a great opportunity to own a fairly level and lushly planted lot near Volcano Village and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Located near front of the community for easy access on Third Street. Hiking trails abound nearby to visit all the sights in this ancient and historic area near the Kilauea Volcano. New owner… Read More »

I’ve started a monthly Newsletter filled with content and information contained in my weekly Blog posts. I’m a great consumer of information, especially regarding Hawaii Island events, activities and our state’s real estate happenings, and I regularly share this kind of information on my Blog. This Newsletter will contain monthly highlights as well as feature interesting and… Read More »

As we enter the 3rd Quarter of 2017 in the middle of our summer sales season, I thought it would be helpful to assess the positive market trends so far for the State and island of Hawaii and the US for 2017. Below is a synopsis of some helpful statistics I gathered from the States… Read More »

Lau Le’a at Mauna Lani has just closed on the first 3 units in their community after almost 24 months of civil work and vertical construction of their product. Lau Le’a at Mauna Lani features detached and two story duplex plans that all include a small pool and spa. The detached units all face the… Read More »

One of our favorite activities near the monthly full moon is to attend “Talk Story” or as it’s formally known-“Twilight at Kalahuipua’a”. The site of this no charge, almost monthly event is the Eva Parker Woods Cottage located ocean front on an island of grass between Makaiwa Bay and the historic Kalahuipua’a fishponds. The fishponds… Read More »

I had a great opportunity to visit Kona Cold Lobsters with a friend who is a seasoned chef. Chef Paul and I took a quick tour of KCL, which is one of his local suppliers, located at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) near the Kona Keahole Airport. NELHA’s unique location and its… Read More »

A beautiful sight greeted Lissette and I this morning on our early morning walk.  Three sailing canoes were streaming together across the distant horizon-heading down wind and toward us at a very brisk rate, all with traditional “crab claw” sails unfurled.  There were two with traditional deep red sails and one with a dark blue… Read More »

I love to surf or he’e nalu in Hawaiian, especially early in the morning at day break and late in the afternoon at sunset or beyond until “dark thirty”. Lissette often heads to the shoreline with a flash light to find me and several other equally addicted surfers in pitch dark surfing under moonlight and… Read More »