Ready to Pop pointed out this article about Canadians buying property in Hawaii now that the Canadian dollar is strong and some homes and condos are selling for half what they were worth in 2008:
“In some areas prices have dropped 40 to 60% and it’s as bad as Phoenix.”
He gets calls and emails from Canadians daily.
“Some are waiting for a bell to ring that says we have hit absolute bottom,” he jokes. “Others have pulled the trigger because in Maui we’re having a half-off sale.”
The loonie, valued at 62 cents US almost a decade ago, hit $1.05 in April. That means a million-dollar property in Hawaii, that would have cost a Canadian about $1.6 million in 2002, is now under a million.
The best values are on the big island.
“In Maui, you need two wallets — on Hawaii you can survive on one,” Dinits says. “You can get a nice house on Hawaii today, six blocks from the ocean, for $66,000. That would be a bank owned foreclosure, or REO (Real Estate Owned) deal.”
