http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales Your Personal Kauai Connection for news, Kauai home sale and real estate information. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:48:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stubborn Storm System Pounds Hawaiian Islands We've had a storm that has been trapped by a low pressure system thus allowing it to circle the Hawaiian Islands and giving us tremendous thunder, lightening, rain and unstable conditions.  Here on Kauai different parts of the island have been hit and road closures and flood watches ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/11/16/kauai-real-estate-and-local-news-update-38/ Alaska Airlines is adding three new flights to Hawaii this week.  On November 9 Alaska will operate four weekly flights between Oakland and Maui and on Nov. 10 Alaska will begin thrice-weekly service between Oakland and Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. Oakland officials said Alaska’s announcement underscores a growing ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/11/08/kauai-real-estate-and-local-news-update-37/ The extension and expansion of the homebuyer tax credit is the pending business in the Senate. After a long week of negotiation on the credit, an agreement on the scope of both expansion and extension has been reached. The extension is part of a larger bill that has not yet ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/11/02/kauai-real-estate-and-local-news-update-36/ Real Estate Update The National Association Of Realtors (NAR) and the Hawaii Association of Realtors (HAR) are lobbying to extend the $8,000 first time home buyers credit on into June of 2010 and the HAR wants to extend it to all home buyers, not just first time home buyers.  The current ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/10/26/kauai-real-estate-and-local-news-update-35/ CoCo Palms Tour Our group enters the back entrance to the dining area. (My husband in the foreground) CoCo Palms has been closed since Hurricane Iniki hit the island September 11 1992.  Since that time it's been under 5 different owners with some of the owners taking a run at reopening the resort and all plans ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/10/18/kauai-real-estate-and-local-news-update-34/ Hot!  Hot!  Hot! This past week has been scorchingly hot and relief finally came on Saturday when the heat was broken by rainfall all night long and finally on Sunday the trade winds came back!  We are now back to our normal weather.  A low pressure system had kept our cooling trades away ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/10/11/kauai-real-estate-and-local-news-update-33/ General Excise Tax Information! Do you file your own GE payments?  The Department of Taxation now requires that the due date for GE taxes is the 20th of each month instead of the end of the month.  Example:  August GE taxes are due by September 20.  Effective date for this new policy is ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/10/04/kauai-real-estate-and-local-news-update-32/ Western Region Out Performs National Home Sales Figures Nationwide The new-home sales had a gain of 0.7 percent last month; this figure missed the expectations on Wall Street. This was the fifth-consecutive month of increased sales. The good news is the western region, which includes Hawaii, enjoyed a 12.1 percent increase ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/09/27/kauai-real-estate-and-local-news-update-31/ American Airlines is reinstating flights between Chicago and Honolulu in 2010, no start date was specified for the flights but only that it would be in the summer of 2010.  Additioanlly  Hawaiian Airlines is expanding its service to California with the addition of three daily flights next summer as they ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/09/20/kauai-real-estate-and-local-news-update-30/ Continental Airlines will increase its holiday service between Honolulu and Houston with the addition of a daily non-stop flight.   The new flight will be available Dec. 17 through Jan. 10, 2010., excluding Christmas day.  The flight will depart Hononlulu Interntional at 10:50 p.m. and arrives at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport ... http://blogs.alohaliving.com/kauai-home-sales/2009/09/14/kauai-real-estate-update-2/