Next week, President Barack Obama will arrive in Oahu for his annual Hawaii vacation.  I've had several occassions to be in the vacation home that the President rents, since I had a few interested buyers when it was for sale for $9.5 million. 

This beachfront Kailua property has about half …

It's the Christmas season, time to buy gifts, spread cheer, and mostly, focus on the birth of Jesus.  With all the Christmas parties, recitals, and other events, you wouldn't expect people to be doing extremely time consuming and stressfull like - buying a house.

But the statistics show that hundreds …

Mortimer Zuckerman is the editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report, and the chairman and co-publisher of the New York Daily News.  He is the chairman of Boston Properties and has extensive real estate holdings across the U.S., and he  is currently ranked as the 182nd-richest man in …

The Oahu real estate sales numbers were released this week, and as many people predicted, there was a large drop in some numbers, especially in condo sales. There were some kind of pessimistic reports out there, but they are wrong.

The total number  of homes that sold was 245, down …

It has 11 bedrooms, 10 1/2 baths, 11,684 square feet of roofed living space, and it's right on one of Hawaii's best beaches in Lanikai.  This beachfront lot is nearly one acre (41,924 square feet) and has 91 feet of beach frontage.

For just $14,000,000, you can own this …

Many of my friends and readers all over mainland America and the world are starting to experience the cold of Winter. I just saw a few people on Facebook post something about snow on the ground, cold noses, and cold houses.

I like to remind people, while their hands and …

Trying to get a vacation booked and squared away properly can be a
tremendous hassle for most people. Not only that, but what if you do not
want to stay at a hotel? Maybe instead you would prefer a homelier
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Mawaena Kai is one of Hawaii Kai's best marina front communities. Builtin 1988, which is much later than most other marina front complexes, Mawaena Kai has a modern feel and plenty of open spaces that lead to the beautiful marina. Most of the units come with a dock, and this …

On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as an official national holiday.  People had been celebrating it unofficially for many years, beginning at Plymouth Colony with William Bradford.  But during the civil war, Lincoln wanted Americans to be especially thankful to God for their …

I'm currently reading "Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations."  It's a very insightful and fact filled book which is part history and part economics lessons.  Readers will learn mucuh about Keynesian economics, which in part caused the downfall of Germany's paper money and the massive …