New Listing in Aina Haina

Check out this great new listing in our neighborhood, Aina Haina. I've written about all the great reasons to live in Aina Haina in other posts, but here is a new one - we now have 2 highly rates elementary schools here.

Aina Haina elem was ranked 4th in the state by Honolulu Magazine's recent school review. It was a very extensive review of parents, teachers, students, and test scores. Once again Aina Haina did extremely well!

And this year we are all surprised to find that the other school in Aina Haina, Wailupe Valley Elementary, moved up to 42nd in the state, a jump of 175 spots in 2 years! Now we have two great schools!

And here is the new listing that's in the Wailupe Valley Elem. school district: A great 4bedroom 2 bath house of 1605sqft for $840k. It's very nicely renovated with new wood floors, great kitchen, and a beautiful yard. Plus, the home backs up to some preservation land, so you have no neighbors in the back!

While other areas on Oahu have seen some pretty significant price decreases over the last 2 years, Aina Haina continues to hold great value due to the location, weather, home quality, and great schools! We love living here and I'm proud to present this beautiful home!

Oahu real estate's value - it's the weather.

Yesterday I spent the day with some clients/friends from Texas, and we kept coming back to one topic over and over - the weather in Hawaii, specifically Oahu.

People want to own real estate in Oahu because our weather is awesome. In the summer it's about 85-90 on a very hot day, with a grea Trade wind that blows almost all year, almost everyday. In the winter it's 75-85deg everyday, with only a little rain most of the time.

It rains more on the Windward Coast, in Kailua and Kaneohe, but a lot of that rain is at night. In East Oahu, which is Diamond Head to Hawaii Kai, it rains less and we still get a nice wind. In West Oahu it's warmer all year, but even there it's still in the high 80's to low 90's at the hottest, with a nice cool winter similar to the the East side.

In the dead of winter, while most of the country is freezing cold, fighting snow and hail, bundling up, we are surfing in 75degree water without even a wetsuit. In the summer while it's blistering over 100deg on the mainland, we are out running and biking, getting in the water, loving God's beautiful creation.

And that's why Oahu real estate has held it's very high value throughout the nationwide downturn in prices. Everyone wishes they could live here, but most never pull the trigger.

What are you waiting for? It's a free country, you can live anywhere you want!