Hawaii

Oahu home sales were flat year-over-year in August with properties remaining on the market longer.

Two neighbor island housing markets turned in mostly better results for single-family homes, but not condominiums in August.

There is no legal basis to force Bank of America to make good on its commitment to provide $150 million in mortgages to beneficiaries of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the state's Attorney General said.

Oahu's housing market broke two price records in July, including one that had stood for more than a year.

Home prices slipped in some of the costliest U.S. markets in the second quarter, a sign that would-be buyers are sitting out the competition for a scarcity of affordable properties.

Home sale volume and median prices rose together on the Big Island and Kauai in July, according to a new report.

Hawaii island and Kauai housing markets in June exhibited mostly negative yet moderate changes in sales and prices, according to industry data.

The number of single-family homes sold on Oahu dropped 10.4% in June while condo sales fell 13.5% compared to the year before, the Honolulu Board of Realtors reported.

Higher prices but fewer sales led to a roughly $20 million reduction in residential real estate sold on Maui last month, according to the Realtrs Association of Maui.

Median sale prices for Oahu homes dipped last month in what continued a trend this year of light, mostly downward movement for the broad measure of Honolulu housing costs.

Home sales on Maui slumped last month by about 20%, according to the Realtors Association of Maui.

Oahu home prices didn't budge much in April, but the same wasn't true for sale volume, which surged for single-family homes and plummeted for condominiums.

The bank is expecting to benefit from the discount airline's first flights to the Aloha State even as a white-hot local housing market starts to cool.

Fewer homes sold last month on Maui but they sold for generally higher prices, according to the Realtors Association of Maui.

Fewer Hawaii property owners fell into foreclosure last year in continuation of a trend that began in 2014, according to state data.

City planners project that an existing housing shortage on Oahu could disappear in five years based on current and anticipated residential development projects.

Home sales slowed on Hawaii island and Kauai last month while median prices mostly rose, according to trade association statistics.

What goes up must come down. At least that was true in 2018 for Oahu's home market, which ended the year with record annual median prices for single- family homes and condominiums but saw slowing sales in December and for the full year.

Oahu's housing market is near the end of what is almost certain to be a year where fewer people bought homes.

The nation's largest mortgage lending company for U.S. military veterans did less business in Hawaii during its recent fiscal year compared with the prior year.