Michael & Gayle Ramsey Fujita's (ramsey005) Blog

Hawaii Realty Group is based on Oahu, the most populated island in the Hawaiian chain. Honolulu is the state's largest city and Honolulu County is the entire Island of Oahu.  Like any large city, Honolulu is made up of smaller towns and sub divisions.  Here is a list of most of what you will fin...

Hawaii Realty Group, Hawaii's largest privately own real estate company is where we now call home.  Hawaii Realty Group's state of the art systems and management offer an unbelievable value to our clients and it is for this reason we have made the move. In today's real estate market in Hawaii, fi...

  Welcome to Hawaii Realty Group and Market Chat. I would like to start by welcoming you to Market Chat at the Hawaii Realty Group.  Market chat pulls information from the Honolulu Board of Realtors and every day experiences from the Hawaii Real Estate Market. This morning I was listening to the...

Great News for Hawaii's First-Time Home Buyers! HUD recently announced that qualified First-Time Home Buyers who want to take advantage of the available tax credit of up to $8,000 now have another option available to them to help them become homeowners.  Please remember that there are a great man...

UPDATE!!! August 2011...We have had a litter of 10 Goldendoodle Puppies.  They were born on June 25th, 2011.  Most have gone to new homes and we have a few left.  If you are interested in adding a Goldendoodle to your Hawaii Home, please call Gayle at (808) 388-1485 or email her at gfujita@hawaii...

Several years ago, when homes prices started to skyrocket across the U.S. and here in Hawaii, there was suddenly a forest of new luxury condominium growth, that is to say, new buildings were sprouting up all over Honolulu proper.  It seems like many of them have had brakes put on them after the m...

A home in the islands, palm trees, kids playing outside, BBQs all the year round.  Life in Hawaii is good and as we get ready to buy a home or sell our home and buy a bigger one or one closer to town or closer to mom's house or in a better location, we start to play the, "I want the most money fo...

Short sales are a hot topic in the Hawaii Real Estate Market right now.  If you are a buyer you are wondering how a Short Sale will affect you.  If you are a Seller you are wondering if a Short Sale will help you.  If you are a Realtor you are concerned about Hawaii's Act 137, or you should be.  ...

 Hi Everyone-  It's nice to be back!  The last several months have been Crazy-Nuts!  We have closed all of the properties we had planned to close with one more to close just before the end on November.  I thank all higher powers for their assistance for them doing so! Through this period, I, like...

I have been a big supporter of Honolulu's Lite-Rail project from way back when.  It has taken so long to get this system going, I now have to wonder why we are not simply putting in more freeways?  Our transportation department drilled a hole through the mountain that runs down the center of the ...