Aloha all…E Komo Mai…Welcome to my blog about Living (and Buying) in Paradise! “Paradise” is the Big Island of Hawaii and by “Buying” I mean purchasing your dream home or land, My name is Trevella Williams and I am a REALTOR® Salesperson with Hilo Brokers, Ltd. 1+808-969-3900 ex. 27 This blog will be primarily devoted to Real Estate on the Big Island of Hawaii, of course we are going to sneak in plenty of talk story about ono grinds, aloha spirit and great beaches as well!
WE are having such beautiful weather! It feels more like summer than our normally rainy winter, it’s still dark at 6:00 AM though and that makes it really tough to roll the old hinney out of bed... but by 7:00 its bright blue sky and sunshine sparkles on the pacific, by mid afternoon we may get some sprinkles but often as not we are not getting any rain until evening. Just perfect!
We have even had some good strong trade winds to blow out the Vog inversion from last week… If you have never heard of Vog before; it’s a mix of fog and volcanic haze and when the wind is just right it can roll into the Hilo area…it looks like a big city inversion (brown cloud?) but white not brown, you can feel the clamminess on your skin and it smells faintly of sulfur, it doesn’t come in very often and usually doesn’t stay long, but if you have touchy asthma it can be a little unpleasant. Mostly we ignore it, the wind will change soon and blow it back over the mountain.
ONO GRINDS; Sombat’s Fresh Thai Cuisine! 88 Kanoelehua Ave. (Hwy 11) in Hilo Town, 808-969-9336 http://www.sombats.com/ This compact and immaculate restaurant has some of the best curry I have EVER had; the green curry with chicken and basil over brown rice is enough to make me wax poetic. But the yellow curry with potatoes is great to, and the roasted curry has that certain joi de vivre, while the red curry is just a tad piquant and the pineapple curry is as fruity as the name.
All can be ordered with your choice of meats or seafood and from mild to Thai hot (which is nuclear!) to accompany your meal have a iced Thai tea, warning: it’s addictive! The restaurant is run by Sombat herself with the assistance of the whole family so you can be assured of excellent personal service. Its right next to Kens house of Pancakes, more on that next week!
REAL ESTATE STATUS: The price slippage of land seems to be slowing and is starting to go sideways now, the selling prices of homes are still heads above where it was a few years ago. We are actually starting to see more pressure from the neighboring islands as the land and home prices remain very high there. The median home list price in Nanawale as of November 10th has risen and is $219,000.00. In Hawaiian Paradise Park the median home list price has risen and is $368,500.00. In Leilani Estates the median home list price is $319,000.00. And In the Hilo area the median home list price is still $449,000.00 and holding very steady.
FEATURED PROPERTY; Great opportunity to purchase 20 acres of beautiful farm land in East Hawaii’s wonderful Kopua Farm Lots for less than $200,000.00! http://www.realestateshows.com/78082 or check out item number 170047528479 on eBay, yes that’s right eBay, http://www.ebay.com/
FEATURED SITE; Check out this great informative site for everything you ever wanted to know about Leilani Estates on the east side of the Big Island (yes I am tooting our own horn!) http://www.leilanirealestate.com/ check out the great 360 degree photo images of the park and association/community center.
WE are having such beautiful weather! It feels more like summer than our normally rainy winter, it’s still dark at 6:00 AM though and that makes it really tough to roll the old hinney out of bed... but by 7:00 its bright blue sky and sunshine sparkles on the pacific, by mid afternoon we may get some sprinkles but often as not we are not getting any rain until evening. Just perfect!
We have even had some good strong trade winds to blow out the Vog inversion from last week… If you have never heard of Vog before; it’s a mix of fog and volcanic haze and when the wind is just right it can roll into the Hilo area…it looks like a big city inversion (brown cloud?) but white not brown, you can feel the clamminess on your skin and it smells faintly of sulfur, it doesn’t come in very often and usually doesn’t stay long, but if you have touchy asthma it can be a little unpleasant. Mostly we ignore it, the wind will change soon and blow it back over the mountain.
ONO GRINDS; Sombat’s Fresh Thai Cuisine! 88 Kanoelehua Ave. (Hwy 11) in Hilo Town, 808-969-9336 http://www.sombats.com/ This compact and immaculate restaurant has some of the best curry I have EVER had; the green curry with chicken and basil over brown rice is enough to make me wax poetic. But the yellow curry with potatoes is great to, and the roasted curry has that certain joi de vivre, while the red curry is just a tad piquant and the pineapple curry is as fruity as the name.
All can be ordered with your choice of meats or seafood and from mild to Thai hot (which is nuclear!) to accompany your meal have a iced Thai tea, warning: it’s addictive! The restaurant is run by Sombat herself with the assistance of the whole family so you can be assured of excellent personal service. Its right next to Kens house of Pancakes, more on that next week!
REAL ESTATE STATUS: The price slippage of land seems to be slowing and is starting to go sideways now, the selling prices of homes are still heads above where it was a few years ago. We are actually starting to see more pressure from the neighboring islands as the land and home prices remain very high there. The median home list price in Nanawale as of November 10th has risen and is $219,000.00. In Hawaiian Paradise Park the median home list price has risen and is $368,500.00. In Leilani Estates the median home list price is $319,000.00. And In the Hilo area the median home list price is still $449,000.00 and holding very steady.
FEATURED PROPERTY; Great opportunity to purchase 20 acres of beautiful farm land in East Hawaii’s wonderful Kopua Farm Lots for less than $200,000.00! http://www.realestateshows.com/78082 or check out item number 170047528479 on eBay, yes that’s right eBay, http://www.ebay.com/
FEATURED SITE; Check out this great informative site for everything you ever wanted to know about Leilani Estates on the east side of the Big Island (yes I am tooting our own horn!) http://www.leilanirealestate.com/ check out the great 360 degree photo images of the park and association/community center.
TIP OF THE WEEK; All you professional people...Title and Escrow, Mortgage Brokers, REALTORS, etc... check out this site, it can really benefit your business! Remember...one of the most important things you can do is Network! And it's fun, you just might learn something!
ECLECTIC TRIVIA FOR THE WEEK; What is the “Law of the Splintered Paddle”?
ECLECTIC TRIVIA FOR THE WEEK; What is the “Law of the Splintered Paddle”?
This “law” was enacted by King Kamehameha and it states that “Random attacks on defenseless people shall be punishable by death.” King Kamehameha developed this law because of a experience he had as a young man, seems that the future king got caught with his foot stuck in a lava crease by some unpleasant characters and they nearly beat him to death with a canoe paddle! Auwe! They only stopped beating him with the paddle when it splintered due to the strength of the blows! There is no reference to what the young man may have done to piss some one off that bad…but Kamehameha was a very large and very strong guy and he had quite the temper of his own…I would hate to be the guys that beat on him when he finally got his foot out of that lava crease! This may be the Big Island but I don’t think it was big enough to hide from that guy!
NEW TRIVIA; All of the Islands have “nicknames”, sometimes more than one, what are they and where did they come from?
MAHALO everyone…please don’t be shy about asking questions, sharing recipes (I am still looking for a recipe for Lilikoi mochi with crunchy peanut butter instead of aszuki bean? A wonderful woman bought them to an open house I hosted on Kai’ei’ei road and I haven’t been able to find her since, I am seriously craving them!), great beach locations, or a story of Aloha Spirit…always love hearing about some aloha, no matter where it is coming from! Remember; Big Island Hawaii No Ka Oi!
NEW TRIVIA; All of the Islands have “nicknames”, sometimes more than one, what are they and where did they come from?
MAHALO everyone…please don’t be shy about asking questions, sharing recipes (I am still looking for a recipe for Lilikoi mochi with crunchy peanut butter instead of aszuki bean? A wonderful woman bought them to an open house I hosted on Kai’ei’ei road and I haven’t been able to find her since, I am seriously craving them!), great beach locations, or a story of Aloha Spirit…always love hearing about some aloha, no matter where it is coming from! Remember; Big Island Hawaii No Ka Oi!
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