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Trade representatives from Monterey County, Calif., hosted a media dinner I attended recently, making an excellent case for the coastal area two hours or so south of San Francisco, plying us with agricultural products from the region. It was a knockout meal, not surprisingly, as the area is home to the renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium,…
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I’m hours away from my flight home to Dallas and figured it was time for a Hawai’ian roundup (and share some odd pictures with no meaning beyond amusement value). This year I chronicled my real estate travails in Hawaii for SecondShelters.com. It started innocently enough with an interview with the local Berkshire Hathaway Home Services…
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In the last installment, we saw what $20 million would buy on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Let’s head for the sky with the top three priciest residential listings in the $30+ million club. This trio represents the perfect combination of vacant land, condo and estate. One even has a teeny-tiny Dallas connection (not to…
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With a median home price of $720,000, it’s not difficult to find pearl-clutching real estate in Hawaii. In fact, as of this writing, Oahu has 10 properties listed above $20 million with three above $30 million. By comparison, not counting hip pockets and new high-rise penthouses, Dallas has just two properties above $20 million (Both…
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According to a new report just published by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism for the State of Hawaii, 27.5 percent of all homes and condos sold in Hawaii since January 2008 were to mainlanders (23.5 percent) and foreign nationals (4 percent). The report cited Texans purchasing 3,435 homes (average rate of 443…
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Like many mundane things that have been made “cool” these days (from Haute Dogs to Lobster Mac & Cheese), it’s now possible (as Candy wrote) to have cool bunk beds. I don’t know about you, but if I had the ceiling height, it would be soooo fun to have half the set pictured above in…
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