As engineers in Surfside, Florida, try to figure out what caused half of a luxury condo tower to collapse there, officials in Honolulu said it is far too early to say what risks Hawaii’s condos might face.  Read the entire article……………………………….

“Leahi Avenue is the only access to our neighborhood and overnight we came to find that half the street has been turned into a pay-for-parking parking lot. Traffic has been affected. It’s been quite a challenge to come down the street and neighbors are quite upset about all that’s gone on,”    Read the entire article……………………………….

The Hawaii Real Estate Commission released its new “Hawaii Condo Living Guide” video series to help deliver valuable information to current and prospective condominium owners and boards.  The first six educational videos are available online and broken up into a series of short segments for ease of viewing. The commission intends to continue releasing more […]

A Windward Oahu condominium complex is poised to uproot nearly two acres of trees on its sloping property, part of what it describes as a stabilization project to help guard nearby Kaneohe Bay from heavy soil runoff.    Read the article…………………………………….

Hololani Resort Condominiums and Goodfellow Bros. are appealing a $75,000 county violation alleging their shoreline restoration work temporarily put the environment at risk.   Read the article…………………………………

Leilani Estates residents are divided about a road up the side of fissure 8 that was built by a resident earlier this week.  Sam Estes’ property, which contained a residence and an ornamental plant farm, is one of several located beneath fissure 8, the largest and most productive of the dozens of volcanic fissures that […]

The Princeville homeowners association on Friday sought resident reaction to a controversial proposal by Starwood Capital Group, owner of the former Princeville Resort and two nearby golf courses, to build a 50-unit, luxury camping resort on what is now three golf holes.   Read the article………………………………

Maintenance fees more than doubled in the last five years at the Waikiki Marina tower as the board has struggled with how to cover major repairs, especially a faulty elevator.   Read the article………………………….

The affordable housing condo Ke Kilohana is raising maintenance fees by 50 percent just eight months after the building opened in the first place.  Watch the video news report…………………….

West Maui community groups N? Papa?i Wawae ?Ula?ula and the West Maui Preservation Association filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Mahinahina condominium Kuleana II alleging blocked shoreline access.   Read the article…………………………

The association of homeowners at the Mauna Kea Resort is appealing the county’s approval of a subdivision without requiring a shoreline survey and other elements of a special management area.   Read the article……………………….

The family of a 13-year-old girl paralyzed by a fall from a Maui condo is suing the apartment’s owners, managers and a vacation rental company.  The girl’s family was staying on the sixth floor in the Kauhale Makai condo in Kihei two years ago when she stepped on a bed near a window. It rolled […]

….The situation is further complicated by a 2002 agreement between the county and the Kealia Kai luxury homesite development, in which the development gave the county control over several miles of shoreline for use as park land. The agreement includes a provision that could be construed to mean the Kealia Kai Homeowners Association can legally […]

On the slopes of a Kaneohe promontory prized for its ocean views, more than 1,000 trees including milo, mango, kukui, weeping banyan and silver trumpet have stood for decades as part of a lush hillside — and a knotty problem.  Under a special city ordinance, these trees are supposed to be maintained by one of […]

The public has a right to access all beaches in Hawaii, which is why newly locked gates have people upset in Kailua.  But the neighbors who voted to keep people out say they have a right to protect their private property.    Read the article…………………………

The City Council will talk about the condition of a vacant Honolulu condominium after neighbors have spent more than a decade complaining about broken windows, rats and human waste.  The unoccupied building in a five-unit complex has been empty for 20 years and has a history of complaints about break-ins, drug use and graffiti with […]

Almost a year after the end of liquid lava in lower Puna, Leilani Estates continues to wrestle with packs of tourists attracted to the vestiges of last year’s Kilauea eruption.  Leilani Estates Community Association President Andy Andrews said the subdivision frequently sees vans of tourists traveling the streets to catch a glimpse of the cooled […]

By day, Howard Hughes Corporation’s Ward Village in Kakaako is a bustling hub of trendy restaurants and boutiques anchored by gleaming luxury condo towers, a multiplex movie theater and a two-story natural foods store.   At night, however, the neighborhood has a different atmosphere. The street life dwindles, and the high-rises become dark monoliths.  The buildings […]

Shoreline access to Honokeana Bay through “Fisherman’s Trail” will be restored as part of a settlement involving the Napili Point II condominium.  The plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in 2nd Circuit Environmental Court in January 2018 are Na Papa’i Wawae ‘Ula’ula, a West Maui shoreline and Native Hawaiian practices protection group; the West Maui Preservation […]

Attending my first general meeting in 1998, and several monthly board meetings after that, gave me first hand experience of the rough and tumble nature of unsupervised subdivision associations. From my perspective there was general confusion among active property owners about the nature of our association.  As a result, I began to research the legal […]

A new beach nourishment proposal could help restore a shrinking shoreline along the coast of West Maui — and end a fierce fight over a seawall that’s currently under construction.  The Kahana Bay Steering Committee represents nine oceanfront condominiums and a single kuleana parcel that have continuously been threatened by extreme erosion due to sea […]

Jay Turkovsky, association president, said the board is dropping the litigation — which sought to prevent the county from removing a security checkpoint on Leilani Avenue, in addition to granting the association control of the public road — because it hasn’t produced results.    Read the article………………..

A Chinese developer’s promise to hire hundreds of local, unionized construction workers at his Sheridan Street condo project appears to be in jeopardy.  Sources said in June, developer Johnson Fang terminated his company’s general contractor Hawaiian Dredging, which was supposed to hire local construction workers. They also said that his company recently brought over Chinese […]

Leilani Estates residents are giving up on a lawsuit they filed against Hawaii County that would have returned a security checkpoint to the neighborhood devastated by lava.  The cost of maintaining that 24-hour security was $100,000 every month and federal money for the measure ran out at the end of October.  Some Leilani Estates residents […]

Life in Leilani Estates may never be the same again after residents fled fissures that erupted underneath their homes and streets starting last May.  But with the volcanic vents quiet for more than three months, and a checkpoint that controlled access now removed, what remains of the lower Puna subdivision appears to slowly be getting […]