Found 54 blog entries tagged as maui real estate.

Sell Your Maui Home, Land, or Condo for Maximum Value | Expert Real Estate Agent’s Guide

How to Sell Your Maui Home, Land, or Condo for Maximum Value

A Proven Guide by Eric West, Maui Real Estate Broker

By Eric West, Licensed REALTOR Broker at Real Broker LLC

Aloha! After helping clients achieve over $160 million in recent closed sales on Maui, Hawai'i and earning recognition as a top 1% Realtor globally with my prevous company, I’ve learned that selling a home, condo or land on Maui isn’t just about putting up a “For Sale” sign and sticking it in the local MLS. Our island’s unique market dynamics, sophisticated buyer pool, and diverse inventory create both opportunities and challenges that most local agents and quite frankly most mainland…

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Launiupoko, Two Markets In One: Main Homes vs. Cottages After 8/8/23

A clean, numbers-first look at Launiupoko Homes For Sale since the Lahaina fire—separating A-parcel “main homes” from B-parcel “cottage” units—to help serious buyers and sellers act with confidence in West Maui real estate.

Launiupoko is quietly two markets. The A-unit (often called the “main home” parcels) tends to carry larger architecture, swimming pools, and broad view sheds. The B-unit (the “cottage” parcel) is typically capped in living area by agricultural rules—historically about 1,000 sq. ft. and, under recent county changes, now up to 1,500 sq. ft. for the second farm dwelling—creating a distinct price and demand curve. That split matters. It explains why,…

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Maui’s Quiet Luxury Window: Where Smart Money Is Moving First

By Eric West 

Architecture that dissolves into horizon lines. Breezes that carry the ocean indoors. The rarest properties are still rare—just newly negotiable. For charts behind this story, see MauiRealEstateStats.com.

In every enduring market, quality leads the recoveries. Maui is no different. Across the island, the homes that matter—oceanfront sanctuaries, newly completed architecture, view-rich golf estates—are whispering again. Marketing times are longer than in the post-pandemic rush, yes. But that only means something unusual has returned to Maui Luxury Real Estate: choice.

In a market with options, conviction is the edge.  Because while selection has broadened, the…

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Maui’s Market Just Blinked: August 2025 (YTD) — What Shifted Across Homes, Condos & Land

Data current through August 2025 from the REALTORS® Association of Maui (RAM). For full tables and charts anytime, visit MauiRealEstateStats.com.

The 2025 story for Maui Real Estate is a market that’s normalizing: more selection, longer market times, and smarter negotiations. Year-to-date (YTD) through August, closings are lower versus 2024, medians have eased overall, and buyers are taking their time—especially in the condo segment—while single-family pricing at the median is holding its ground. Below we move from the macro picture to detailed takeaways for homes, condos, land, and the key sub-markets buyers ask us about most. If you want the raw numbers…

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Maui Real Estate, Ocean Lifestyle, And Aloha Spirit

Aloha from Maui! I’m Eric West of HawaiiRealEstate.org, your trusted Maui Real Estate Agent. This is your digital “Maui Fix”—a taste of salt air and sunset light, and a grounded look at why Maui Real Estate is more than property. It’s lifestyle, investment, and a story you can live inside.

The Call Of The Ocean

Maybe you remember pressing a seashell to your ear as a kid, sure you could hear the ocean. On Maui, that sound is everywhere. On this Aloha Friday, I set up on the beach as the sun melted into the horizon. Behind me, the West Maui Mountains glowed. In front, surfers traced lines across swells that traveled thousands of miles to arrive here.

Thousand Peaks: A Local Surfing Gem

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Lahaina Recovery Update: Maui Real Estate Rebuild, Progress & Reopening Front Street

Walking through Lahaina today is a surreal experience — part remembrance, part renewal, part cautious optimism. As someone who has lived, worked, and raised my family in West Maui, I feel a responsibility to document what is happening on the ground, not just for the community here, but for the thousands who once called Lahaina home and for those around the world who care deeply about this historic town.

This blog is a continuation of what I’ve done for years on YouTube: real-time updates, walking tours, drone shots, and honest commentary about life and real estate in Maui. But now, I’m pairing each video with a written post here on my website, because while…

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2022/2023 Maui County Property Tax Rates

Here are the updated rates for this coming fiscal year. If there is any change in rates, last years rates are noted for reference. All rates shown below are per $1,000 of assessed value.

Please enjoy my Maui Property Tax Calculator to figure out your exact tax liability for each property type. Click www.MauiPropertyTax.ORG

 Owner Occupied

  • Tier 1: up to $1,000,000 Formerly $2.41 now $2.00
  • Tier 2: $1,000,001 to $3,000,000 Formerly $2.51 now $2.10
  • Tier 3: more than $3,000,000 Unchanged $2.71

Non Owner Occupied

  • Tier 1: up to $1,000,000 Formerly $5.45 now $5.85
  • Tier 2: $1,000,001 to $4,500,000 Formerly $6.05 now $8.00
  • Tier 3: more than $4,500,000 Formerly $8.00 now $12.50

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Maui Market Report January 2021 Stats

The real estate market on Maui is definitely heating up. Track the details on my www.MauiMarketWatch.com report which is a open source Google Sheets spreadsheet. You can also CLICK HERE see this summary report for January 2021. Mahalo for your business, and I look forward to working with you as a buyer or sellers agent.

Mahalo

Eric & Lisa West

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Maui Short Term Vacation Rentals - Condos and Homes

Investment Pitfalls and The Minatoya List

This is a hot topic across the entire vacation rental market worldwide and Maui is no exception. The goal is basically to keep vacationers and other short-term visitors in the hotel districts and out of neighborhoods for various reasons ranging from crowded parking, unruly behavior, affordable housing shortage for locals, and loss of employment opportunities for hotel workers and many more. Threats to reassess properties for tax purposes at sky-high commercial rates can discourage homeowners from investing in short term rental properties.  According to a recent poll over 55% of Maui residents oppose short term rentals in their neighborhoods. But all is not…

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The ZERO Effect of COVID on the Maui Real Estate Market 

Aloha! And welcome to another weekly Maui Real Estate Market Watch Report from Eric West at Keller Williams in Whalers Village.

Maui Real Estate

 Here is what's new and developing for the week of August 24th 2020. To see the entire Google Sheets spreadsheet please click here

The big question people ask me every week…”How’s the market doing on Maui?” Many people are expecting a major downturn in demand and subsequent 20-50% reductions in asking prices.

Not so much.

In a nutshell, the Maui Real Estate Market is holding steady, very steady.

Let’s compare the last 8 months of 2020 with the exact same time period in 2019.

Now keep in mind, in 2019 the market was in FULL swing with a FULL capacity…

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