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June 2009 - Posts

Hawaii Kai Real Estate Market Still Healthy
According to the East Oahu Sun , East Oahu residential real estate is still in a healthy market cycle. Year-to-date, the median sold price for single-family homes is $800,000 and for condominiums it is $450,000, the highest median prices for all of Oahu. Read More...

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Hawaii Clean-Energy Jobs Growing Fast
According to the Honolulu Advertiser , "Hawai'i's clean-energy sector is one of the fastest-growing in the United States, at least when measured by overall job growth. The job growth was about six times the state's overall job growth Read More...

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Tax Credit for Hawaii Kai Buyers May be Expanded
Congress is reviewing legislation just introduced to expand the tax credit now limited to first-time homebuyers to any purchaser of a home and increase the maximum available to $15,000. Now capped at $8,000, the tax credit is one part of President Obama's Read More...

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New FHA Rules will Affect Hawaii Kai Lenders
Realtor.org reported this week that the FHA has cracked down on mortgage brokers, because of the bad deeds of the industry the last few years. "The Federal Housing Administration is tightening its review of mortgage professionals that are allowed Read More...

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Kamehameha School to Test Merit Pay for Teachers
This Fall, Kam Schools will begin a merit-based pay program with the long-term goal of phasing in the system throughout all the campuses. According to Honolulu Advertiser , "Officials said they hope the new system, which will reward teachers and Read More...

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Hawaii Kai Real Estate Market Activity for May, 2009
Although May home prices on Oahu were down 15.3%, single-family home prices in Hawaii Kai and Mililani decreased by only 7 percent, according to Harvey Shapiro, the Honolulu Board of Realtor's research economist. He also reported that "prices Read More...

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