James Pycha's REMAX Kauai Real Estate Blog

How do we answer the question: "What is my property worth now?" Global financial events over the last ten days have changed faster than "greased lightening" making any pronouncement on current values of Kauai Real Estate even more difficult to project. As you know, many would-be sellers over the...

Taxkey Days on Mkt Price Location Escrow Date Subdivision 4-2-8-17-10-47 412 $235,000 Kiahuna Plantation #447 10/9/2008 Koloa Beach 4-3-3-3-37-25 93 $440,000 Hale Malu #25 10/3/2008 Puhi 4-5-4-5-3-19 152 $349,900 Paniolo #204 10/9/2008 Princeville 4-5-4-6-1-16 42 $945,000 Villas Of Kamalii #16 1...

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Wise agents will see the current financial events as being rich with opportunity. Those agents will make more money in 2008 because they saw the opportunity and worked instead of making excuses. In their world, work developed a brand new meaning of action, quality, time planning, results and aut...

The Administration Is now considering cash "Injections" into many banks as a purchase of "Equity Stakes" after failing to unlock frozen credit markets. The Treasury Department would take ownership "stakes" in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system. This is ...

Aloha  - - - As the global financial turmoil continues, our knowledge and understanding of the inner-workings of mortgage lending business is increasing. The ubiquitous LIBOR rate is now quite significant. Here's why . . .    The Federal Reserve's half-point emergency rate cut may not have any a...

The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the creation of the Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF), a facility that will complement the Federal Reserve's existing credit facilities to help provide liquidity to term funding markets. The CPFF will provide a liquidity backstop to U.S. issu...

The Federal Reserve announced today that it will bypass ailing banks and lend money directly to American corporations. This is the first time this has occurred since the Great Depression. Also, the Fed hinted strongly at further interest-rate cuts.  This is a combinantion of unconventional and co...

One thing that people often forget is that the stock market crash of 1929 did not turn into the Great Depression overnight. The unemployment rate was still only 8.7 percent in 1930. GDP lost 6.4 percent in 1931, but the bottom fell out only in 1932, when GDP plunged by 13 percent. So it took thr...

REMAX International President/CEO on Fannie and Freddie: Finding Their Future Dave's insights are accurate and worthy of review. His conclusion is that a reorganization of Fannie and Freddie will have a positive impact, but we shouldn't SO READILY facilitate government control of an industry vita...