Bringing Your Pet to Maui: The Complete Step-by-Step …
Hawaii is the only U.S. state that is rabies-free. To protect that status, the state enforces strict import…
Land Court vs. Regular System: Hawaii
Hawaii has two parallel systems for recording property ownership — the Regular System and the Land Court (Torrens) System.…
HARPTA & FIRPTA: What Sellers Owe — and …
HARPTA requires 7.25% withholding on the sales price for non-Hawaii resident sellers. FIRPTA requires 15% withholding for foreign sellers on the…
Leasehold vs. Fee Simple in Hawaii: What Every …
Fee simple = you own the land and the structure. Leasehold = you own the structure but rent…
Maui Real Estate 2024: The Long Road Back
12.3 months supply of condominiums at year-end — up from 4.9 months in 2024, a 151% increase. Condo inventory…
Maui Real Estate 2023: A Year of Loss …
Single-family closed sales fell 28.5% to 729 transactions. The first seven months of 2023 looked like a normalizing market.…
Maui Real Estate 2022: When the Tide Turned
The Fed raised rates seven times in 2022. The 30-year mortgage rate went from 3.1% in January to 6.7%…
Maui Real Estate 2021: The Year the Market …
0.8 months of condo supply. A balanced market needs 5–6 months. At 0.8 months, there was essentially no inventory…
Maui Real Estate 2020: The Year Everything Changed
$795,000 — the 2020 SF median. Up 7% from 2019's $741,178. In a year that began with pandemic shutdown…
Maui Real Estate 2019: The Last Normal Year
1,609 condominium sales. A healthy, active number in a balanced market. Nobody knew it would be the last year…