Featured Listing - Like New Cozy Home on 8 Acres December 12, 2007
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This month’s featured listing is a Cozy home located on 8 acres in a private and serene tropical rainforest.
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Cozy home located in a private and serene tropical rainforest. Like new custom home is being sold completely furnished and ready to move in!
Almost 8 acres located on a paved private road in Mt. View approximately 15 miles from Hilo and 20 miles from the Volcano National Park (Hawaii’s #1 tourist attraction).
Immaculate condition and quality throughout including: high ceilings large tiled floors deep Kohler bathtubs Bay window custom wood frame beds pedestal sinks stacked Kenmore washer/dryer vinyl cased windows and a large Nordic Hot Tub.
The lanscaped yard has a fenced paddock ready for your horse or animals. A large galvanized steel water catchment tank is located on the north side of the house.
This is a very peacful and tanquil setting. The home is in excellent condition and like new.
The home is nestled in a native forest with giant old growth ohia wild orchids and giant hapuu.
There is incredable stargazing from the property.
Custom made Teak and Mango wood furniture.
Interior design by local artist.
All gardening to date has been done with organic fertilizers and natural pesticides.
Ultra Violet filtration is installed on the water catchment system.
Perfect home for self sufficency. Small enclosed grazing area planted with high quality grazing grass.
Set back far from the road and electric has been brought in.
Easy to convert to gas for energy efficiency.
Market Conditions Report - Hilo December 12, 2007
Posted by Kelly in : Market Conditions , add a commentHere is an updated Market Conditions Report for Hilo:
Market Conditions Report
* Hilo *
Area Characteristics:
Hilo is the second largest city in all of Hawaii. Most of the services and businesses on the east side of the Big Island are located in Hilo. It is also home to the county seat and includes the county, state, federal, and judicial buildings. While Hilo tends to be a rainy place, the weather patterns are not always predictable. Several weeks or months may go by without any substantial rainfall. Nearly all of the important educational and financial institutions are located in Hilo. Visitors and residents find Hilo to be a “local” town with warm and friendly people. While tourism is very important to the east Hawaii economy, it does not dominate, as in Kona.
Buyer’s or Seller’s Market:
On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being a buyers market and 5 being a seller’s market, Hilo is at a 2. This is a buyers market.
Recent Price Trend:
On a scale of 1 to 5, with a 1 reflecting sales prices down and 5 reflecting prices up, Hilo is “Down”, with a rating of 2.
Market Report Narrative:
Unlike other areas, such as the Puna District (south of Hilo), there has not been a tremendous drop off in the asking or selling prices of homes in Hilo. When comparing the data from 2005-2006 to 2006-2007 the drop has been less than 10% for those homes priced $500,000 or less.
This is an excellent time for first time home buyers to negotiate a deal.
Hilo is roughly divided into 5 areas according to tax key. The area along the ocean (3-2-1) has zero properties for sale at $500,000 and under. The remaining areas (3-2-2, 3-2-3, 3-2-4, 3-2-5) have 121 listings with an average listing price of $364-380,000. Please note that one of these areas, Kaumana City, does not have county water and features the most affordable homes, some of them with spectacular views of Hilo Bay at an elevation of 2000 ft.
If you want to be close to the heart of activities, live in a town that retains its charm, and enjoy the beauty of Hawaii, then Hilo would be your first choice.
HERE ON THE BIG ISLAND - Nature and Culture December 12, 2007
Posted by Kelly in : About Hawaii, Big Island Hawaii, General, HERE ON THE BIG ISLAND, Hawaii Travel , 1 comment so farHERE ON THE BIG ISLAND
Nature and Culture
It’s the oldest wood-frame building on the island. Many of its ohia posts and beams, erected in 1839, are still holding it up; and you can still walk on its wide koa floorboards. What’s different, now, is what’s on top (originally thatch, but by mid-century wood shingles) and what’s inside: a “house museum.”
It was built by and for David and Sarah Lyman, the first New England missionaries to settle in Hilo. Progressive educators, they founded two schools, but were also eager to teach local kids about the world beyond Hawaii. So they asked friends, visitors and sailors to send them mineral rocks, seashells, and man-made artifacts from foreign lands.
In 1932, the Lyman’s youngest daughter (then in her 80s) saved the house from demolition, and it was turned into a museum. In 1972 a modern museum building was erected next door, to showcase what had become an enormous and eclectic collection.
Today, the Lyman Museum is the Big Island’s only natural-history museum, with a permanent display of minerals and shells, plus dioramas and models explaining Hawaii’s oceanic and terrestrial climate zones. It’s the island’s only cultural museum too, featuring early Hawaiian artifacts, Chinese fine arts, everyday objects from all of the local immigrant cultures, and tours of the original Mission House.
Currently, there is also a reproduction of an early 20th century Korean homestead; a stunning half-hour film about Kilauea’s eruptions that overran Kalapana in the 1990s; and through April - in celebration of the museum’s 75th anniversary - a display of some odd but memorable objects that have been in storage for years.
The museum (www.lymanmuseum.org) is at 276 Haili St., just mauka of downtown Hilo, and is open Mon-Sat from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
