I’m hours away from my flight home to Dallas and figured it was time for a Hawai’ian roundup (and share some odd pictures with no meaning beyond amusement value). This year I chronicled my real estate travails in Hawaii for SecondShelters.com. It started innocently enough with an interview with the local Berkshire Hathaway Home Services…
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Back in May, I wrote about the Kaka’ako area of Honolulu and its meteoric growth into a new urban high-rise jungle. It is an area located between Waikiki and downtown Honolulu that for decades was full of warehouses and small local businesses. It also contains the Ala Moana and Ward shopping centers within its boundaries.…
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The valet parking line stretched down the block for Honolulu-based lux furniture store C.S. Wo’s annual “Home for the Holidays” bash for its top-tier customers and designers. This year’s event marked the 16th anniversary partnership between C.S. Wo and Neiman Marcus. The event, in conjunction with Neiman’s HeART corporate charitable giving program, featured some 60…
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If you can scare up the down payment on any of these condos, you’ve been quite lucky in life or inheritance. The units in this group continue to follow the formula of location, location, and size set out in the previous two installments (here, here). There are a few options in oceanfront buildings (my ‘hood),…
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In part one of this series, I posted how second home shoppers on a budget can realize their Hawaiian dreams for condos in metro Honolulu priced from $200,000 to $400,000. At this price range, sacrifices are needed as buyers balance a property’s geographical location with the individual unit’s location in the building and the size…
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Last week we saw the sexy, unattainable house porn of Oahu. Now let’s be realistic. You don’t need millions to realize a dream of a second home in Hawaii. When looking for a home in Hawaii, it comes down to location, location, and size. Let me explain. Location: The further a home is away from…
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