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NEW HOME OPTIONS ABOUND ACROSS OAHU Buying a home is the biggest purchase most people will make in their lives. It’s important to go into the process armed with as much information as possible.

There are thousands of websites, books and even cable channels devoted to educating homebuyers. Most of that information is aimed at a national audience. With this guide to home-buying and the Hawaii Homebuyers Fair this Saturday, we hope to add to your Hawaii-specific knowledge.

The Hawaii Homebuyers Fair will be held at the Hawai‘i Convention Center on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The fair, which is sponsored by the Star-Advertiser and Sunetric, is free to the public. For more information, visit hawaiihomebuyersfair.com or call 538-6397.

This special section includes articles on Oahu’s hottest markets for new home development and a Q-and-A with the executive director of a nonprofit that helps educate Hawaii residents on buying a home.

There are a variety of new home options on Oahu.

Kakaako is booming with nine condominium towers under construction now or soon to be under construction. Those towers will have about 4,000 units ranging from penthouses with ocean views fronting Ala Moana Boulevard to affordable housing with income limits for buyers.

The state and city have been pushing development in Kakaako as a way to bring housing closer to the two main employment centers: downtown and Waikiki. With the addition of an elevated rail line, the neighborhood is being designed as a place where you can live, work and play without having to get in your car.

Kapolei, Oahu’s second city, continues to grow with 550 new homes being built this year. The city is adding more shopping and employment opportunities every year and will also benefit from the new rail line that runs from East Kapolei to Ala Moana Center.

Waikiki is the heart of tourism in Hawaii, but it is also home to thousands of yearround residents. At least two new condo projects are underway in Waikiki, giving homebuyers the option of owning a new home in the center of all the action.

David Butts Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Business Editor

Regional zoning changes have some analysts predicting a new wave of residential development. PAGE 10

Kakaako’s condo boom Four towers to date have begun selling units, while another five are in various stages of planning. PAGE 13

‘Second City’ years in making A number of communities — some of which have been planned for decades — are under construction in and around Kapolei. PAGE 21

Be akamai when shopping Dennis Oshiro of the Hawai‘i HomeOwnership Center offers advice on how to prepare for buying a home. PAGE 26

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Aloha and welcome to the Hawaii Homebuyers Fair!

It is a pleasure to co-sponsor this inaugural event. At the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, we strive to keep our community informed. And there are few areas in our daily life where being well informed is more helpful than in home-buying and homeownership. It is a fact that for most people, buying a home is the single largest financial investment they will ever make.

That's why homebuyers and homeowners need to be especially well informed. And that is the purpose of this fair: to give people the best, latest and most Hawaii-focused information on buying a new home.

So visit the booths, take part in the workshops being offered, talk to the experts and learn everything you can about home-buying, homeownership and home renovation. You will find Realtors, mortgage companies, renovation and home improvement specialists, and nonprofit assistance providers all in one place and ready to answer your questions.

Aloha, Dennis Francis Honolulu Star-Advertiser, President and Publisher Welcome, homebuyers and homeowners!

Thank you for joining us at the first annual Hawaii Homebuyers Fair hosted by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Whether you’re considering purchasing your first house or you’re seeking ways to improve your current homeownership, the Hawaii Homebuyers Fair provides invaluable resources and support to help you succeed as a homeowner.

With visions of master-planned communities moving forward and transforming neighborhoods like Kakaako, staying informed on upcoming developments and how these changes affect homeownership will be key to realizing your dream home. From real estate agents to Sunetric solar installers, the participating professionals at the Hawaii Homebuyers Fair are here to guide you through your homeownership journey and answer all your questions. We encourage you to stop by the wide range of service providers’ booths and workshops to find out more about the exciting opportunities available for homebuyers and homeowners.

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Guests and prospective buyers attended a private sales event in June for the Ritz-Carlton Residences Waikiki luxury condos.

A video screen displayed sales activity. Nearly 90 percent of the 309 units have been sold.

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t was relatively easy for Yas Saotome, a Connecticut-based biotechnology industry vice president, and his wife to choose Oahu as the place where they eventually plan to live out their retirement.

Finding the right condominium in the right neighborhood was

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more challenging. The couple looked at about a dozen properties from Kakaako, where nine new towers with 4,000 units are in the pipeline, to Waikiki, where only five new fee-simple condominium projects representing about 1,323 units have come available since 2005.

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The couple ultimately chose to buy in Waikiki despite the limited inventory of new condominiums.

“It’s rare to find a beach destination with an urban feel,” said Saotome, who fell in love with the area during his first visit. “It’s very international as well. There aren’t too many cities like that.”

The couple made an offer on a unit in the Waikiki Landmark, which came to market in 1993 at the tail end of the Japanese investment boom in Hawaii and was meant to be the start of luxury residential condominium development in the resort district.

However, it stood alone for years

due in part to the economic downturn, a lack of available land for development and strict Waikiki Special District zoning requirements, which stood in the way of large and small developments.

Amendments made to Waikiki zoning last year have renewed residential developer interest in the destination, allowing for new development and redevelopment of time shares and hotels in Waikiki’s commercial core.

“The (Honolulu) City Council did an exceptional job working with the residents and businesses in Waikiki to develop a new set of zoning guidelines that encouraged responsible but economically viable development,” said Jason Grosfeld, senior managing member of PACREP LLC, developer of the 37-story Ritz-Carlton Residences Waikiki, which broke ground on Aug. 29.

Waikiki Neighborhood Board member Jeff Merz, who works as an urban planner, said his oncetired neighborhood is on the upswing.

“Waikiki went through a wall with locals and tourists. It didn’t have the best reputation for living or visiting. But a few years ago, Waikiki started getting back the cool factor that it had lost. While the stock in Kakaako will be newer and better planned, we’ve got the name recognition in Waikiki. When you get high-end brands like the Ritz and Trump, people start viewing the neighborhood on another level.”

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predicting a wave of new residential development in Waikiki.

“We work with a lot of Japanese buyers but we are seeing more Chinese and Korean buyers and some Canadian,” said Patrick McMillen, principal broker of Waikiki-headquartered CENTURY 21 Hawaiian Style.

“We’re also seeing more local people, especially young urban professionals, empty nesters or retirees, considering Waikiki.

But there simply isn’t enough inventory to satisfy the demand. We need more two-bedroom condominiums in the $600,000 to $1 million price range. If they were new, we could move them quick.”

McMillen may get his wish.

Independent housing consultant Ricky Cassiday predicted Waikiki will account for more than 12 percent of the 10,823 condominium units that he expects will come to market on Oahu between this year and 2018. Cassiday’s forecast for new condominium development in Waikiki comes close to matching his projections for development in Ala Moana and downtown.

“I think Waikiki will be as attractive, if not more, than Kakaako,” said Cassiday.

“Kakaako is a dirt town that will be like Miami downtown glint whereas Waikiki is richer and more diversified.”

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push the average price up by 272 percent to $1.27 million from $467,000 in 2012.

Local and offshore buyers already are scooping up the latest Waikiki condominium developments. All of the 117 units in The Cove Waikiki, which is expected to open in June 2014, have already been sold to a mix of buyers, including 46 percent from the local market.

“The appeal has been pretty even amongst local and offshore buyers,” said Chris Deuchar of Form Partners LLC. “We already have seen the interest from local buyers growing over the last 10 years and think that will continue to grow as they want to be centrally located and have close access to activities and amenities.”

Grosfeld, with PACREP, said his company has sold nearly 90

percent of the 309 Ritz-Carlton Waikiki units.

Ritz-Carlton is exploring buying adjacent land and developing a second condo tower that could be annexed to the first tower.

“There are not many firms that have bet as heavily as we have in Waikiki,” Grosfeld said.

“We definitely agree (the area is hot) and we are voting with our time and with our wallets.”

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Waihonua at Kewalo, on Queen Street at the base of Pensacola Street, was the first tower project in the recent Kakaako boom to launch sales. Of the 341 units priced between $375,000 and $1.9 million, 321 have been sold.

the first tower over the last three to four months.

A third project where sales have begun is Symphony Honolulu, a project by San Diego-based OliverMcMillan with units priced from $500,000 to about $3 million. Sales began in July and buyers claimed about 200 of 288, or 70 percent, of market-priced units. Another 100 moderate-priced units under a state program are scheduled to be CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM sold via lottery today.

Most recently, sales began last month for 397 units in a tower that’s the focus of a condo complex called The Collection on the former site of a CompUSA store.

Unit prices range from $380,000 to $1 million. Prospective buyers reserved 250, or 63 percent, of the units, though the reservations have yet to be converted to binding sales.

Three other towers with development approvals, planned by Howard Hughes Corp. at Ward Centers, have yet to start sales but are expected to do so by the end started sales and construction late of the year. Construction is proEwa Beach and Ka Malanai in jected to begin early next year. last year, and has sold 321 of 341 Kailua — are ongoing.

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RACING TO NEW HEIGHTS A high-rise condominium boom in Kakaako fills a void of homebuilding limited elsewhere by a lack of land

By Andrew Gomes agomes@staradvertiser.com

igh-rise condominiums dominate the options today for buying a new home on Oahu, and Kakaako between downtown Honolulu and Waikiki is ground zero for this market.

The area bounded by Ala Moana Boulevard and King, Punchbowl and Piikoi streets has been envisioned by state planners for decades to become a dense core of condo towers. Now that vision appears to be turning into a reality.

Unit sales are ongoing at four Kakaako tower projects, two of

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Three more towers have development permits but have yet to start sales. And two other towers have been announced but still need permits.

In all, nine towers with a total of about 4,000 units are in this development pipeline.

Far fewer homes are on the market or under development elsewhere on the island, where a handful of single-family house and townhouse projects — including Mehana in Kapolei, Hoakalei in

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also aware that unexpected shocks to the economy, significantly higher interest rates or a longer-term slowdown can hurt buyer demand.

“The market’s only going to last so long before it tips again,” Paul Kay, director of real estate development for Kamehameha Schools, said in July during an event announcing a Kakaako project called Keauhou Place.

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complex with 230 units in a tower and 82 low-rise condos on the site of Pier 1 Imports on Kamakee Street.

Nine towers with close to 4,000 units sounds like a lot, raising questions about whether enough demand exists.

A recent report by commercial real estate firm Colliers International said Oahu’s market for multifamily housing is on the defining line between expansion and hypersupply phases.

“Concerns are being raised that the considerable amount of new residential development in the Kakaako area will result in an oversupply situation without the level of demand needed to absorb the number of units planned,” said the report, released last month.

Local economist Paul Brewbaker of TZ Economics said such concern is off base because of the relative dearth of new housing being built elsewhere on Oahu amid a rising economy. Brewbaker said that even 5,000 new homes is not a huge supply when considering it was a little more than what was produced in half a year on average from 1950 to 1974. “(Five thousand new homes) would seem to so many people as if it’s a lot of units when it really isn’t in any meaningful context,” he said in an email.

Developers cite the high response to date from buyers as evidence supporting Brewbaker’s view. However, they are

HIGH-RISE HOPE State planners have envisioned the area bounded by Ala Moana Boulevard and King, Punchbowl and Piikoi streets as a dense core of condo towers. Projects by the numbers:

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450 moderate-priced units in a condo tower and 150 low-rise homes including rental apartments on a South Street parcel owned by the trust.

Brewbaker agrees that while current demand supports the volume of new home development in Kakaako, whether demand lasts until all the tower projects are completed is another question.

It typically takes two years to

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or more than 20 years, Kapolei has been one of the most concentrated areas of suburban housing development on Oahu, and home construction continues to chug along in the re-

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Several developers are churning out phases in master-planned communities that date back decades, in the effort to create a

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For the most part, new homes in Kapolei are priced for entry-level and move-up buyers, though lux-

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One of the region’s oldest communities, Ewa by Gentry, expects to produce 130 to 150 new homes this year at two phases, Trades

and Sandalwood, where prices start in the low $400,000s.

Bob Brant, Gentry Homes Ltd. president and chief executive officer, said the company has built about 7,300 homes in the community that began in 1988. This year, production was ramped up somewhat in response to the growing economy and buyer demand. “The market’s improved,” he said.

Another major Kapolei project with old roots is Ocean Pointe, which broke ground in 1997. To date, project developer Haseko Hawaii has completed about 3,300 homes, including 750 at the resort side of the community called Hoakalei launched in 2008. About 1,500 homes at Hoakalei have yet to be built.

Haseko declined to project sales this year, but has sold close to 130 homes annually on average since 2008. Earlier this month, the newest phase of Hoakalei called Kipuka began sales at prices ranging from the low $600,000s to the mid-$800,000s.

A more recent addition to Kapolei is Mehana, a project planned for 1,150 homes below the city of Kapolei. Developer D.R. Horton began producing homes at Mehana in 2008, and this year expects to produce and sell about 100 homes starting in the $300,000s.

Bob Bruhl, executive vice president of Horton’s local Schuler Division, said the market this year has been steady. “The past couple

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In the state’s Villages of Kapolei affordable-housing community, Castle & Cooke Homes Hawai‘i plans to finish delivering the last 104 homes for sale this year at the 645-unit project that included for-sale homes and rentals.

Prices for the homes in the Kealakai, Nohona III and Makali‘i II neighborhoods range from $227,000 to $462,000.

In total, around 550 new homes are expected to be produced this year in Kapolei. Production, however, will continue to stretch out over many more years as some communities are completed and developers try to start new ones that are approved, in permitting phases or in conceptual formation.

The biggest of these potential future projects is Ho‘opili with 11,750 homes on the Ewa Plain where Horton still needs city zoning approvals after receiving permission from the state Land Use Commission last year to urbanize the 1,554-

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One permitted project that has no definite timetable is Makaiwa Hills with 4,280 homes next to Makakilo.

Plans recently floated also include 4,000 homes proposed

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One other long-envisioned project called Kapolei West was originally envisioned as a second phase to Ko Olina Resort & Marina with 2,500 homes. Landowner James Campbell Co. has applied to subdivide the property and is looking for a developer to

carry out a development plan.

All the potential residential development could produce close to 20,000 more homes in Kapolei by 2025, according to an assessment by Decision Analysts Hawaii Inc. that projects the number of homes in Kapolei will rise from 31,730 in 2010 to 36,290 in 2015 and 51,500 in 2025.

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How much are they willing AND able to put down toward their purchase, then how much each month toward a mortgage payment and maintenance costs?

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OSHIRO : We always recommend that prospective buyers begin their quest for homeownership with an HUD-approved education and counseling agency such as Hawai‘i HomeOwnership Center. In this way, families can begin to address various areas needing attention simultaneously — aside from down payment funds, is a low credit score an issue?

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