Warren Buffett says he would buy a couple hundred thousand homes is it was feasible.  The billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway made the comments during a recent interview to CNBC.  What temps him are the ultra-low mortgage rates and he also said that buying houses now seems like a much better investment than […]

Sales of investment and vacation homes jumped in 2011, with the combined market share rising to the highest level since 2005, according to the National Association of Realtors. NAR’s 2012 Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey, covering existing- and new-home transactions in 2011, shows investment-home sales surged an extraordinary 64.5 percent to 1.23 million last […]

Blackrock an asset management firm has purchased 5% of the outstanding shares in Hawaiian Electric Industries according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Blackrock now controls 4.6 million shares and is valued at $102.6 million as of close of trading on Friday