http://blog.hiestates.com The Most Informative Oahu Real Estate Weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Want to see what price range people are buying in on Oahu?  How about what the number of days properties are staying on the market?  Want to see what the odds are of selling your home?  Check out this Interesting Graphs!  Look at all the sales at or below $1.0mil. How about ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1184 If you want an idea of what is going on in the real estate market here, one need only look at the article headlines below.  In this months stats I will compare the beginning of this year to the beginning of last year.  If you would like to view February's ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1181 Here we are with another addition of the monthly stats.  Sales continue to increase, inventory continues to drop, , fewer homes are coming on the market and interest rates are still at historic lows.  The market has changed.   If you would like to view January's entire 21 page report, click on ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1174   We finally come to the end of a challenging year.  At the beginning of 2009 things did not look good at all as the economy appeared to be in big trouble and confidence was the lowest it had been in a long time.  I never would have thought we would be ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1172 The increase in Chinese tourists is expected soon with the arrival of direct flights from China to Honolulu.  Will this be the next big real estate buying segment in Hawaii?  It is expected to be. Hainan Airlines, China's largest private carrier, seems to be on Hawaii time when it comes to ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1166 This article says it all.  Don't wait too long!  Interest rates, not prices look to be the biggest factor in affordability going forward.  Freddie Mac sees rates reaching 6% by the end of 2010. Also read, Borrowers face 1% interest rate rise. If you want to refinance your mortgage into a loan with ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1162 Hawaii and other sunny states have the happiest people a survey says.  Hawaii's year around warm weather and sunny skies allow for a more pleasant and relaxing lifestyle. Probably not surprisingly, their report in today's edition of the journal Science found the happiest people tend to live in the states that ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1156 For members of the military there is good news.  Not only are prices down and interest rates low, but the US Department of Defense is increasing the housing allowance 2.5% for military members. A typical E-4 with dependents living in Hawaii will receive about $2,001 per month, about $16 more a ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1153 Here we are with another addition of the monthly stats.  Inventory is dropping, the number of sales are increasing, fewer homes are coming on the market and interest rates are at historic lows, yet prices are trending sideways right now.  The market is changing but right now the stars have ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1150 The average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage dropped to a record low of 4.71 percent this week, pushed down by an aggressive government campaign to reduce borrowing costs. The rate, published Thursday by Freddie Mac, is the lowest since the mortgage finance company began tracking the data in 1971. The ... http://blog.hiestates.com/post/1147