The Shops at Mauna Lani has sold to Phoenix, Arizona based AT ML Leasehold HI, a holding company for Arciterra Companies, LLC, that specializes in retail developments across the mainland US. Their website lists properties in many states with both single and multi user retail centers. The Shops at Mauna Lani was originally purchased from… Read More »

Image used under license from Freestock.com Important news for those wanting to add a certain method to offset the ever increasing power charges from HELCO. Hawaii island residents “enjoy” the highest power charges in North America at almost 50 cents a kilowatt resulting in very high monthly power bills. The only method for avoiding these… Read More »

Mauna Lani Bay Hotel, golf course and other real estate assets sells to new owner-first time in 35 years!! The Mauna Lani Bay Hotel, golf course, racket club, greeting center and 1000+ plus acres of undeveloped land adjacent to the resort have sold.  The Tokyu Corporation via several entities owned these assets and are the… Read More »

As we exit the 2016/2017 Winter/Spring, high season for real estate sales, I thought it would be helpful to assess the positive market trends for 2016/2017/2018.  Here is a synopsis of some helpful statistics I gathered from Title Guaranty, Corelogic and the Hawaii Information Service (Multiple Listing Service).  Please scroll down or click the links… Read More »

Top U.S. and Foreign Buyers of Hawaii Property (PDF) | Top Buyers by Region (PDF) Canadians and Japanese buyers continue to rank as the top 2 foreign buyers of Hawaii Island and statewide properties.  Despite the current Canadian currency devaluation against the American dollar, Canadians continue to purchase property primarily in the South Kohala resorts. … Read More »

French Polynesia including the Society, Tuamotu and Marquesas islands are our favorite vacation destination. We are fortunate enough to have visited yearly for the last 10 years. Many of our friends and clients ask us why we would vacation in another tropical destination similar to where we live full time. The answer is, more of… Read More »

Located in Villages at Mauna Lani-this popular Lehua Plan is equipped with a 39 panel Solar System. Unit 320 has one of the best locations in The Villages- which includes a large grassed common area off of the great room and rear BBQ lanai and located at the end of the 300 row of Lehua… Read More »

One of the most beautiful beaches and a great way to see the manta rays that are numerous in our waters is to go to the Mauna Kea Beach Resort after sunset and walk to Manta Ray Point located on the north side of Kauna’oa Bay. Manta rays come into the bay at night to… Read More »

Lissette and I run/walk a very scenic, 6 mile route daily at sunrise within the Mauna Lani Resort and along the shoreline including circling the fish ponds ponds at Kalahuipua’a, and the shorelines at Honoka’ope and Makaiwa Bay. It’s an incredible start to the day currently filled with snow capped volcanoes, hump back whales breaching,… Read More »

7 homes under contract Developer’s representative reports! I communicated recently with Brian Anderson’s sales team for an update on sales and development of their community.  They report 7 units in the phase 1 section of single family homes are “under contract”. They also report that an important part of their development plan has been changed. Instead… Read More »