Interest rates have skyrocketed, sellers are dropping prices, we're dangerously close to recession...Is the real estate sky falling?

Um...No, not really, not yet anyway.

Inventory is up, sales are down, and sellers are lowering their asking prices, but the actual selling prices? Well, those are still climbing ...

Is Maui's real estate market crashing or cruising?

As most people who are even tangentially following real estate prices know, the value of your investment(s) literally started to skyrocket in late 2020. In 2021 real estate prices continued to climb, and now 3 months into 2022, people are ...

The real estate market is HOT, but sales are sagging.

We'll talk about that in a minute. First, what's happening on Maui?

COVID Mandates

Most COVID mandates are likely ending soon. Lt. Governor Josh Green, reported that he and other state leaders are "cautiously optimistic" that most COVID-19 ...

And the COVID weirdness continues, but we are still optimistic. Welcome 2022!

Last year at this time we got off to a more optimistic start on Maui. Our COVID numbers were way down, there was a vaccine on the horizon, planes were flying, visitors were arriving, and the real estate ...

Beautiful sunset photo taken by Don McLeish. It was the most liked photo on our Instagram last month. We'd love to see your photos as well, you never know, you might just be featured on our social media!

Well, this will be the last newsletter of 2021. Another year ...

Is the real estate market slowing down? Nope, just running out of gas.

But first...

An article this week in The Maui News reported that September arrivals to Maui were down 18%. That seems like a huge dip. But remember, that was when our governor asked that visitors not come ...

Got Inventory?

Hot off the presses:

Own a vacation rental property on Maui? You want to read this!

Late last week the Maui County Council unanimously passed a bill creating a new 3% transient accommodation tax (TAT). It goes into effect on November 1. Mayor Victorino said, "We didn't ...

Quick Update:

Aloha, for those of you paying attention, you'll notice that this report is very late this month. That's because we went on a quick two week vacation to the parts of Northern California that were not on fire.

That included a few days in Grass Valley ...

IS THERE A SHIFT AFOOT IN MAUI REAL ESTATE?
MAYBE...BUT MAYBE NOT.
READ ON FOR MORE DETAILS, BUT FIRST, WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING ON MAUI?

It seems like Maui had a pretty good plan and we were moving forward with business and life in paradise as semi-normal. Maui is ...

Visitors are back, restaurants are as full as allowed, rental cars are sparse and real estate...

Update in brief

It seems like most of Maui wasn't expecting it. The Maui Visitors Bureau wasn't the hotels and condo complexes weren't, and the car rental companies certainly were not ...