Found 22 blog entries tagged as west maui real estate.

 Maui Bill 9 and Bill 88 Explained: Is Your Condo on the Minatoya Phase-Out Resolution List | Update August 2026

MAUI’S VACATION RENTAL REZONING: THE COMPLETE CONDO REFERENCE, LIST BY LIST

Updated August 13, 2026, by Eric West, Broker, Team West Maui

If you own a Maui vacation rental condo, or you’re thinking about buying one, the last six weeks changed your math.

Roughly 2,554 apartment-zoned units — more than a third of the approximately 7,000 units affected by Bill 9’s short-term rental phase-out — are now on a path toward permanent hotel zoning.

There’s a lot of confusing coverage out there, so this page organizes every affected complex into simple, scannable lists grouped by location.

Find your building, see exactly where it stands,…

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Maui Luxury Home Market Report: 3 Years of $5M+ Sales Reveal a Shifting Landscape (2023–2025)

The Maui luxury home market — properties selling at $5 million and above — has navigated a dynamic three-year stretch marked by post-pandemic demand shifts, wildfire recovery, rising interest rates, and evolving buyer priorities. After analyzing 97 closed luxury home transactions across 2023, 2024, and 2025, the data tells a nuanced story that every serious buyer, seller, and investor in Hawaii real estate needs to understand.

Here's what the numbers actually say — and what they mean for the road ahead.

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Featured Luxury Home at 300 Mahana Estates See Details at www.MahanaRidgeForSale.com

Three Years at a Glance: The Big Picture

Between 2023 and…

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Maui’s Vacation Rental Ban Bill 9 Hearing Postponed Again!

Maui’s Vacation Rental Ban Bill 9 Hearing Postponed Again! Update October 2025

By Eric West | Maui Real Estate Update | October 2025

If you’re about to scoop up a Maui vacation rental condo for the best price you’ve seen in the last five years, be sure to send a thankyou email to Mayor Richard Bissen, West Maui Councilmember Tamara Paltin, and of course the cash flush, fine folks at Lahaina Strong because nobody has done more to crash the market than this trio of “housing heroes.”

And oh yeah, in the process, they have not (nor will they ever) create one single affordable home on Maui from this abominaton of an idea.  Just  junk waves of economic destruction....that nobody wants to…

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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 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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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.

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 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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Corona Virus Impact on Closed Sales for Homes, Land and Condos on Maui

Maui Real Estate Update July 16, 2020

Aloha! And welcome to another weekly Maui Real Estate Report from Eric West. Here is what's new and developing for the week of July 16th 2020. To see the entire Google Sheets spreadsheet please click here

If you are curious about the effect of COVID on the Maui Real Estate market in the month of June 2020, check out this comprehensive report

  1. We had another 26 price reductions averaging 7% and a total dollar discounting of just under $2M. This is quite a bit lower than what have been seeing during this Coronoa Virus time period. The two most notable reductions came from 3806 Lower Honoapiilani Rd with a $251,000 reduction in price…

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