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Happy Fourth of July!

We’ve a lot to be thankful for, living in our wonderful country! Let’s take a look at recent events….

March 2012 Hawaii Foreclosure Info

With a steady number of preforeclosures and REOs in Hawaii, what does the future hold? Are the March foreclosure numbers a continuation of recent trends?

2012 Predictions – What to Watch Out For

It’s 2012 already – let’s cut to the chase and see what the next 12 months have in store for those of us in Hawaii real estate and the market. Get ready!

2012 Economic Outlook, Luxury Market and Turkeys

Aloha, friends. Getting ready for Thanksgiving? More on that below! Let’s get right to it… APEC is done and many are more than a bit ‘thankful’ for traffic to return to its normally sticky state. Driving 10mph through Honolulu is better than standing still, right? I was conveniently in San Diego (and Idyllwild – great [...]

Memorial Day in Hawaii

Aloha, folks. I thought I’d take this moment to wish everyone a very pleasant Memorial Day weekend. While this is certainly a national holiday, it definitely strikes close to home for those of us in the islands. Here in Hawaii, we undoubtedly have a strong tie to the United States military. Pearl Harbor, what many [...]

Another Mortgage Lender Nightmare

As I sit here in Honolulu catching up on the news over the long MLK holiday weekend, I was shocked to read about yet another serious banking fiasco. It seems that JP Morgan Chase, the nation’s #2 mortgage lender, overcharged several thousand military families on their mortgages and even improperly foreclosed on fourteen homes! Some [...]

What’s Your Housing Market Information Source?

I was checking the national business news on my iPhone yesterday at my Honolulu home and was troubled by the apparent conflict of headlines and news stories. It’s become very difficult to know what to believe anymore about the housing market, both in the near and long term. Look at this screen shot I took…

What “Robo-Signing” Foreclosures Means to Hawaii

Just a quick post here regarding the recent “robo-signing” that’s gripped the nation’s foreclosure landscape. As most of you know, quite a few of the country’s top mortgage lenders have reduced or outright stopped pursuing foreclosures for the time being in some or all states. Bank of America, the nation’s top lender, put a halt [...]

Interesting Article – American Housing Preferences

You look back 10 years, what did you get? A little bit cleaner and deeper in debt.
With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford, that’s a brief synopsis of how U.S. home life has changed during the past decade, according to the latest “American Housing Survey,” released last week.