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scott on September 30th, 2009

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/

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scott on September 8th, 2009

Thomas Wong – Real Estate Commissioner gives us an update on Foreclosures in Hawaii.
The Hawaii Real Estate Report on OC16 – Saturdays @ 9:30 PM

Repeats: Sunday 3:30AM & 12:30 PM; Monday 11:30 PM; Tuesday 5:30AM & 9:30 AM; and Wednesday 1:30 PM

New episode: Saturday, September 12 – Peter Savio – The benefits of Real Estate investing [...]

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scott on June 2nd, 2009

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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Now your most trusted real estate advisors, Realtors and Realtor-Associates, can help you if you are having problems with your mortage.
That is good news for people that need help. Many clients were experiencing problems and needed to do a short sale. According to the old law, Hawaii Real Estate Brokers and Salespeople were not able [...]

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Advice from one of the world’s richest men
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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Jeff Orig, RA - Hawaii Real Estate Report on May 1st, 2009

Check out this email I just got from a local escrow officer:
Hi Jeff,
There’s a new trend in real estate. Recently released national statistics for existing homes show that sales prices rose 4.2% from February to March, which is much higher than the predicted 1.8%. Four facts stand out:

First-time buyers accounted for 53% of the transactions [...]

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The Honolulu Board of Realtors said sales and prices of existing homes on Oahu fell in March.
The median sale price for single-family homes was $600,000, down 4.5 percent from $628,000 in the same month last year. However, the decline in March was the smallest this year compared with an 8.2 percent drop in February and [...]

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Join Abe Lee of Abe Lee Realty and Abe Lee Seminars, Scott Sakata and Jeff Orig of The Hawaii Real Estate Report on  OC16 and Abe Lee Realty and special guest Sheri Kagimoto on Radio Tiny, this Thursday, March 26 from 8:15am – 9:00am.
 
Radio Tiny” airs on BOTH RADIO & TV simultaneously on K108 – [...]

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Jeff Orig, RA - Hawaii Real Estate Report on February 8th, 2009

Auction Date is 03-02-2009
920 Ward Ave. 11C
Honolulu, HI 96814
This is a 2 bedroom 2 bath unit. The tax assessed value is $457,900.
Here is the link to the google map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=920+Ward%20Ave.+Honolulu+HI+96814
This is a property to watch.
The neighborhood is very central, right in the heart of Honolulu. Walk to the Blaisdel and shopping down Ward or on [...]

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