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Can you believe the that median sales price for a single family home on Oahu was up 6% from a year ago? This is David Buck with Harcourts Island Real Estate and today we're going to report on the market stats for September of 2024... Read More

So often in my business (in real estate) you get asked "is it necessary to do a termite inspection on a high rise condo?" There's 2 stories I'm going to share with you today... Read More

Well, a question you might have today if you're in the real estate market is "Does a Seller have to pay a Buyer's Brokerage?" This is David Buck with Harcourts Island Real Estate and I've now been licensed since 2001. I'm dating myself with 24 years in the business. A lot has changed in our indus...

Here we are at the street on Halekoa Drive, which wraps around like a circle (at the top of the hill). You have a newer glass garage door on the front. This home has been remodeled twice during the course of ownership. There's a lemon tree in the front that was grafted and brought here from Greec...

Aloha! This is David Buck with Harcourts Island Real Estate and today we're going to talk about the local market update for August of 2024.Local Update for HomesFirst off, we're going to dive into single family home sales and there we saw Makiki-Moiliili with the largest increase in sales year ov...

Aloha! This is David Buck with Harcourts Island Real Estate and today we're going to take a tour of our new listing at Waipuna in Waikiki. This is a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom, with 2 parking stalls... Read More

Aloha, this is David and today we're going to be covering condo complexes here on the island of Oahu and I'm appropriately wearing my Kahala Aloha Shirt designed by Dale Hope, a good friend and mentor regarding Aloha Shirts in Hawaii because he is "the authority". In any event, we're going to sta...

Directly behind me we have Victoria Place and the lobby area is being built out right over here. This is the only tower within Ward Village that doesn't have any retail and it's very exclusive. Behind me is Ala Moana Blvd (on the other side of the construction barricade) and they're going to have...

The reason we're here is there was an article in the Star Advertiser and it talked about how the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul and her ex aide has gotten into some trouble in being an agent of the Chinese government. Her name is Linda Sun and her husband is Chris Su. They apparently took mil...

I did an article 5 years ago on the 50th Anniversary of Hawaii being a state. However, now that we're in the year 2024 celebrating 65 years, let's talk about 13 listings that are here on Oahu that are available (there are several more that are under contract)... Read More