We just launched our new vacation rentals section. We thought it would be convenient for our website visitors to be able to search for a vacation rentals directly from our website. We already have 29 vacation rentals in our database and it’s growing rapidly. We decided to make it free for vacation rental owner’s to put their rentals into our system. It is for Hawaii vacation rentals only. We are toying with the idea of allowing long term rental listings as well. Let us know what you think.

New Advanced Search Form
If you havn’t tried our new and improved Advanced Search Form, you may want to give it a try. You can now perform a single search with all of the criteria you want in a property at one time. For example, with the old search form, if you wanted to find home with “Ocean” views and homes with “Mountain/Ocean” views, you would have to perform two separate searches. Now you can select all of the criteria you want and then get all of the results at once. This form really goes into more detail than the “Maui MLS Quick Search” on our home page.

For those of you who missed the House Hunters, Maui episode, which aired on HGTV. I recorded it and now you can watch it here online. It featured Donna Hansen (my mother) as the real estate agent. You will need QuickTime 7 to view it, although your computer probably already has it installed.

Neighbor isle home sales are stabilizing 
Neighbor island home prices continued soaring last month, but industry experts say the market is nonetheless showing signs of stabilizing.
Source: starbulletin.com

I just wanted to give everyone an update on our Maui Web Cam. You may have noticed that the camera has been working much more reliably lately. Axis finally fixed the problem that made the camera stop working periodically. Ever since I installed the new firmware update for the camera, it has been working perfectly.

Also, I set a limit of 7 frames per second for the video stream, so that one person could not suck all of the bandwidth and make it impossible for anybody else to see it. So, now we can serve more simultaneous viewers. You may have noticed that several months back I also set a limit on how long you can view the live video feed of the beach, before you have to reload the page. I did this because some people would leave the video playing all day and that would severly limit how many other people could see the stream too. Enjoy…