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 ...

Properties are Going Under Contract Fast and Closing Slow

Quick update: Visitors, Roads, Erosion and Taxes

Aloha! According to a report in the Maui News, visitor arrivals for March, yes, I know it's May, were up over arrivals in March of 2020. I know that sounds like a "duh ...

Wow, what a month! March started off with some guests arriving on Maui at a slow, steadily increasing rate, and then - BOOM! It suddenly felt like 2019 again, and as it turns out, a report today says there were actually more arrivals on Maui in the final week this month ...

Quick Update:

Aloha, if you would like to come to Maui, we're open! If you don't know where to start with the required testings it's really not that hard, we've done it. Click here to find the State of Hawaii's Travel Partners. Barb was just ...

Quick Update:

Aloha all, February on Maui is the same as always, but different. I'm finding it interesting that I'm still being asked by many folks if Maui is open. Some have even told me that they are not coming over, "because nothing is open". Most of the ...

Quick Update:

Aloha, Friends: 2020 is officially in the rear view mirror, but it did not go quietly. The resort we live in the middle of not-usually-windy Lahaina had the roof literally blown off of 2 buildings on the day after Christmas. Large sheets of corrugated steel sailed off the ...

Aloha, Friends: I'm writing this on December 5, 2020. As we continue to be COVID cautious here on Maui, I am happy to report that the signs of life and renewed commerce on Maui are abundant. Last night, we walked Front Street as we do frequently on "Art ...

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Sales:

Sales are the number of properties that actually closed escrow. These properties likely went under ...

Sales:

Sales are the number of properties that actually closed escrow. These properties likely went under contract anywhere from 2 to 8 weeks before closing.

Real estate has been amazingly resilient in the time of COVID with an extraordinarily low supply of homes available to buy - inventory. There were 99 ...