RealtorDiaries: 'As I drive home from my showings, I think about the fact that Kauai is a true microcosm. We have homeless people and we have Mark Zuckerberg. And when it comes to Zuckerberg, there is definitely tension regarding all his purchases.'
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images,” we hear from the people at the center of a wilder-than-ever market. Today, an hour-by-hour glimpse into the working world of a seasoned broker in Kauai, Hawaii.There’s a six-hour time difference between Hawaii and New York. If you’re a highly motivated realtor here, you get up early to work with East Coast clientele and then your California clientele. But then … there’s me.
One note about trucks. With all the tech money moving out here, the most notable thing that’s changed are the vehicles you see in Kauai. They’re much nicer now. It’s all Teslas and huge pickup trucks. They all have California plates, maybe Texas. There must be a lot of overcompensating going on — because these areI check the surf at my favorite beach, Intersections — it’s tempting, but the tide is wrong, so pass.
The median price in Kauai is $2.3 million. It was $3.3 million for a while, but it’s dropped post-COVID, I suspect. On the higher end, there are two homes for sale for $17.5 million right now — they’ll likely go to techies. One is almost one acre oceanfront in sunny Poipu and is vacation rentable. The other is an 11,000-square-foot monster house on one-plus acre ocean bluff . One is 5,000 square feet on eight acres and not even on the ocean, which means it’s wildly overpriced.
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