Coming up on The Hawaii Real Estate Report: Re-use Hawaii.
Re-use Hawai’i (www.reusehawaii.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to building material reuse and recycling. Their mission is to keep reusable building material out of the waste stream, and in use in our community.
They specialize in “deconstruction” which is a systematic disassembly of a structure in order to preserve the [...]
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A new website has just been launched by the Hawaii Association of Realtors to give helpful information on those facing or about to face foreclosures on their homes in Hawaii real estate:
http://preventforeclosurehawaii.org/
Join us as we interview Julian Yates III, PhD in Entomology as he talks about those pesky pests, Termites, that cause millions of dollars in damage to Hawaii real estate.
He’s even bringing a few of those critters to the show! Watch it!
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http://www.hawaiihousingprograms.org/
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Thomas Wong – Real Estate Commissioner gives us an update on Foreclosures in Hawaii.
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New episode: Saturday, September 12 – Peter Savio – The benefits of Real Estate investing [...]
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Do you have a mortgage with a variable or high interest rate? If you do, it makes a lot of sense to refinance. Thirty-year fixed-rate mortgages are currently only about 5 percent – and you want to lock in a low rate now, because inflation is on the horizon.
Inflation is coming due to the colossal amount [...]
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According to Rob Chrisman:
the statement made by Shaun Donovan, HUD secretary, on how the FHA will allow the $8,000 tax credit to be used for down payment at a NAR conference earlier this week was apparently “off base”. The information was removed from the website and the “Mortgagee Letter has been pulled for the time [...]
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Here is some good news for first time homebuyers that want to take advantage of the historically low rates and very soft sellers.
According to Rob Chrisman’s blog http://www.robchrisman.com/ ,
“Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said that the FHA is going to permit its lenders to allow homeowners [...]
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Median sale price for single-family home drops to $585,000
The median sale price of single-family homes last month was down 8.5 percent to $585,000 on significantly fewer sales compared with the same month last year, according to the Honolulu Board of Realtors.
Condominiums sold for a median $310,000 in April, [...]
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I just found this great article. It’s a quick read. Check it out.
RISMEDIA, May 1, 2009-Potential home buyers who aren’t eligible for the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit because they currently own a home actually have what could be an even bigger advantage – the opportunity to buy a new home that is bigger [...]
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