Real Estate Survival Guide
A manual for navigating Hawaii's housing market
By David K. Choo

Almost any conversation about the economic outlook in Hawaii these days inevitably arrives at one issue: housing. The cost of buying a home – for an individual, a family or a company concerned with keeping its people in Hawaii – is the soft underbelly of our economy. So in this issue, Hawaii Business sets out to assist in getting people in Hawaii into homes and shoring up our state workforce and our economy, and in the process, the social fabric that makes this state special.
As the residential real estate market nationally comes to a screeching halt and our local market sputters along, we offer a few things to help people survive and maybe even thrive on the Islands’ rocky real estate road. The following is our real estate survival guide.
Drive carefully.
As the residential real estate market nationally comes to a screeching halt and our local market sputters along, we offer a few things to help people survive and maybe even thrive on the Islands’ rocky real estate road. The following is our real estate survival guide.
Drive carefully.
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