If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? How much do we destroy what we love by wanting to be near the beloved? If you and your bros and your neighbors all move to paradise, is it still paradise?
Here’s a frightening little video [...]

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A Kauai lawyer swindled the woman of $373,000 from the sale of her home
After two days of deliberation and a two-week trial, a Kauai Circuit Court jury awarded $1 million yesterday to a Hurricane Katrina survivor swindled by her Kauai lawyer.
While the lawyer, Andrew Lichtenberg, has since been convicted and disbarred, the judgment also names [...]

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Princeville Resort is about to be rebranded as Hawaii’s first and only St. Regis hotel and will undergo a $60 million renovation to substantially upgrade the 20-year-old property perched on the cliffs above Hanalei Bay.

The 252-room hotel on Kauai’s North Shore, which is managed by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.’s Luxury Collection, is to [...]

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Home sales on the Big Island and Kauai were down during the first quarter of this year, according to new statistics released Thursday.
Median prices of single-family homes stayed relatively flat, while condominium prices rose on Kauai as they fell on the Big Island, according to statistics provided by Hawaii Information Service.
Condo sales on both islands [...]

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In light of a state investigation into alleged unauthorized use of 16 Ha‘ena homes as vacation rentals on state conservation lands, some residents yesterday asked the Kaua‘i County Council to upgrade an existing county law to improve regulation of the vacation rental business.
But the Council Planning Committee meeting at the historic County Building was punctuated [...]

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The state Department of Land and Natural Resources has issued notices to 16 property owners in Ha‘ena to halt alleged unauthorized use of multi-million-dollar homes as vacation rentals.
Most of the 16 homes are on makai, or on the ocean side, of Kuhio Highway, from the YMCA’s Camp Naue to Limahuli Stream. Most are clustered around [...]

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The Kauai County Council has pushed forward a bill that would regulate — in some cases, outlaw — vacation rentals and other nonhotel accommodations in residential areas of Kauai.
After two years of meetings, panels and discussion, the bill is currently in the Council’s Planning Committee for review. It was deferred yesterday, as they wait for [...]

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With only about 60,000 residents on the island of Kauai, the direction of its housing market can seem to change with the tropical winds. Take January, when the sale of just a few high-end homes boosted the median price by 31%. By comparison, the median home price last year was up 5.6% from 2005. And [...]

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On November 7, 1997, apparently in response to an anonymous complaint, the County of Kaua’i Department of Public Works performed an investigation that documented the grading of the hilltop adjacent to Ka Loko Reservoir and presence of heavy equipment there.
A further citizen’s complaint was received on November 16. On November 18, 1997, the Department of [...]

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Condominium sales inched up in a year that saw house sales fall by almost 30 percent, according to statistics released yesterday by the Kauai Board of Realtors.
“People are finally understanding that living in a condo might help them establish their equity so they can move into something better,” said Karen Ono, KBR director. “You can’t [...]

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