School quality comes up early with almost every buyer who has kids, usually right after price and commute. It is a fair question, and it is also one where I am careful about what I can and cannot tell you. I am a real estate broker, not the Department of …

After 24 years of helping families buy homes on Oahu, I can tell you the single biggest hurdle for local buyers isn't the monthly payment — it's the down payment. Saving cash while paying Honolulu rent is brutal, and I've watched plenty of well-qualified families put their homeownership dreams on …

For the last five months, the median sales price for a Single-family home has stayed between $1 Million and $1.05 Million. Although the Year-over-Year closings are down 10%, December 2021 closings were still higher than November. Median days on the market were only 11 days and sold 2% OVER the …

Why buy North Shore Real Estate?

Oahu's North Shore has some of the highest real estate prices on the island. What sets them apart from the rest of the island? Here are a few insights:

● The North Shore of Oahu is a surf mecca. The winter …

In May 2017 my husband and I bought a fixer home in Hawaii Kai. It was in original 1970 condition and it needed some major TLC!

The renovations that we made were all cosmetic and we (thankfully) didn't have to do any electrical or plumbing work that exceeded the …

Let's face it: there is never a bad time to sell your home in Hawaii! But with school out and a lot of military families starting to arrive, summer becomes a very good time for home sales.

Here are a few tips on getting the most for your home, …

"I don’t have 20% to put down. Does that mean I’m out of the game?"

If you’ve even thought about purchasing a home, you’re already aware of the industry standard in home-buying: 20% down for a mortgage loan. The absence of that amount of cash is enough to defer …

     One of the most common phrases a Realtor in Hawaii will hear is ”back on the mainland” or “back in Seattle” or back in (fill in your city), followed with, ”my home was so much bigger” or “brand new” or “I had this much land!” These statements always end with …

As I'm looking at the statistics that just came out from the Honolulu Board of Realtors, I'm laughing! Mainly because at the beginning of the year I actually thought that maybe the market may start to slow down in 2016 (see my article from March 2016 below in the blogs)... …