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Ko Olina residential neighborhoods, pictures and information

06-02-08
Michael Hege RA, CDPE
Michael Hege RA, CDPE: Real Estate Agent in Kapolei, HI
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Ko Olina is sometimes overlooked as a place to not only vacation, but to live year round. There are currently 5 different neighborhoods sprinkled throughout the resort and each of them have a different look and feel to them. Settings, architecture, amenities and price range all create different choices depending on what a person is looking for. What they all share in common is being located in the beautiful Ko Olina resort and all 5 communities will allow you to be members of the Ocean Club with access to the pools, tennis courts, gym and to receive discounts within the area.

Located within 3 miles of Kapolei, Ko Olina offers convenient access to shopping but the relaxed atmosphere of living within walking distance to 4 gorgeous lagoons and miles of walking trails. As you drive in, you know you've arrived to a special place, and it is easy to understand why Disney has selected Ko Olina to build their first offsite Hotel property.




Here is a picture of the entrance to the Ko Olina area with the 24 hour Aloha team check in on the roadway in the right of the picture.

As you enter the area, the first of the housing areas will be on your right. It is called Kai Lani, and is about 30 individual 4 unit buildings some of which have unobstructed ocean and coastline views, many of which are only separated from the coast by a small ribbon of Conservation property. Each unit has a single car garage and there are 1st floor and 2nd floor units. Of all the communities, Kai Lani is the smallest and offers the best of the best in terms of privacy and views. The link will show you available properties in Kai Lani. The picture below shows the gated entrance into the homes. Prices on Kai Lani listings are currently between $700K to $1.295MM

Kai Lani Units for sale




The entrance to the Kai Lani residences

As you continue on into the Resort, you'll pass the Marriotts Ihilani 5 star Hotel and then adjacent to this fantastic property, you'll come to the future site of the Disney Hotel. Located on 23 + acres and fronting the second half of the largest of the 4 Lagoons, this should be quite a transformation to the area.


Future site of the Disney Hotel property

Across the street from the site is the entrance to another community in Ko Olina, Coconut Plantation. These units are located on some beautiful grounds and the landscaping is truly remarkable. Coconut Plantation is the closest of all the 5 communities to the Disney site and has the Ko Olina Golf Course on it's other boundary. Currently, the lowest priced property in Coconut Plantation is just under $600K.


Entrance to Coconut Plantation

Coconut Plantation properties for sale

As you continue on Aliinui Drive, the Ko Olina main artery, you'll go past the newest of the residential choices in Ko Olina and the first beach front property offering year round residency, the Ko Olina Beach Villas. This luxurious high rise style complex has 2 buildings between 7 and 11 stories high and offers one of the most prestigious packages on Oahu. Designed with no details unattended to, the grounds are modeled after the finest 5 star resorts and the designer designed suites units are exquisite. Prices begin in the $900's and for penthouse ocean view estates the prices are in the area of $2.5MM depending on model, view and ammenities. If you'd like more information on this property, drop me a line and I'll send you a brochure with available units and prices.

On pass the Marriott Beach Club and the Marina, you will either turn left to head toward the Ko Olina Kai Golf Estates or go straight to the Ko Olina Hillside Villas and The Fairways at Ko Olina.

At Ko Olina Kai Golf Estates, you'll find the only 60 single family residences in the entire Ko Olina Resort. These single family residences are located on the perimeter of the golf course and are all fairway lots. Once inside Ko Olina Kai the remainder of the community is comprised of 6 unit buildings with floor plans ranging between 2 bedroom/2 bath units to 3 bedroom/3 bath units. The pool/community area is lovely and special attention was given to creating a very open feel through the use of green space. A walking trail leads from the community to the pro shop and 1st tee box of the golf course for those who share that affliction.


Entrance to Ko Olina Kai Golf Estates

Ko Olina Kai Golf Estates Townhomes

Ko Olina Kai Golf Estates Single family homes

At the end of the resort are the Ko Olina Hillside Villas and The Fairways at Ko Olina. As you drive down to the end of Aliinui Drive, you'll have the Hillside on your left and The Fairways on your right. As the name would imply, The Fairways at Ko Olina are built along the golf course and the perimeter units offer expansive views of the Championship course with various sized units and floor plans. Currently priced as low as $425K, these units provide a remarkable value and very affordable entry into the resort.


Entrance to The Fairways at Ko Olina

The Fairways at Ko Olina listings

The Hillside Villas are similarly priced and again, provide a great way to live in a little bit of paradise. Overall, the prices in Ko Olina have softened over the past year and there are some excellent values to be had.


The Ko Olina Hillside Villas

Ko Olina Hillside Villas listings

I hope you will find this to be a good introduction to the many choices that are available in Ko Olina Resort and Marina. I also hope that you will feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this magical place known as Ko Olina... or as it would be translated from her Hawaiian name, Place of Joy... and it truly is.

Michael's Real Estate website

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Ko Olina & the Disney resort

05-29-08
Michael Hege RA, CDPE
Michael Hege RA, CDPE: Real Estate Agent in Kapolei, HI
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As the pages of the calendar fall to the floor, what seemed a distant event begins to appear closer. From the first time I heard the rumor, it was easy to believe and easy to imagine. Disney was going to build a hotel in Ko Olina.

The Disney family is a pretty good family to have moving into our neighborhood! Not only for the investment and jobs that will be brought, but for the quality of the corporation and the people who are part of it.



Ihilani Hotel - Marriott Disney site Beach Villas Marriott Beach
Club timeshares

I had the pleasure of working with a large company move when the Santa Fe Railroad moved their Locomotive repair shop and other support services from San Bernardino, Albuquerque and Euless, Texas to Topeka, Kansas. It was over several years and being a REALTOR was redefined to me during that experience. I personally visited each of the locations that was being effected by the move and met with workers and their families to answer a multitude of questions that came up. We actually rented conference rooms in the hotels and invited transferees to come with their families and ask about Topeka. During those trips, I spoke to hundreds of people.

What I learned was that in each family, a move to a far away place was way beyond the house they would be living in. Schools for the children, jobs and unemployment benefits for the trailing spouses, the community in general, tax events, cost of living, doctors and health concerns where often more of what we talked about than Real Estate. In many cases, we were the first person they knew in the town they were learning they were going to be calling home. I was involved in a lot of transactions, but more enjoyably, I was involved in a lot of lives and think I was able to provide a valuable service throughout the experience.

The internet was not was it is then. I suppose that many answers will be able to be answered with Google and websites. It will be interesting to watch the process as it unfolds and people begin to come to town. I hope I'm able to make that transition more comfortable and easy as they do. In the meantime, I will start to add references and things that someone moving here might find interesting.

As I have said before in this forum, Ko Olina is a beautiful place and since this will be the first time Disney will build a Hotel without an accompanying park, I think that speaks volumes of how beautiful the area is on her own merits. The planned hotel site is located on a crescent shaped lagoon and will be built between the Ihilani Hotel, a 5 star Marriott property and the Beach Villas which are brand new residence villas which are the first year round residence opportunities on any of the 4 Ko Olina Lagoons.

A wonderful beach trail connects the 4 lagoons on a mile and a half coastline trail. There are 5 other communities within the gates of Ko Olina which are Kai Lani, Coconut Plantation, Ko Olina Kai, Ko Olina Hillside and Ko Olina Fairways. Several of them are built along the perimeter of the Ko Olina Golf Course which is world class and currently Michelle Wie's home course. Lastly, there is a beautiful marina with nearly 300 slips in what is one of if not the best marinas in the State of Hawaii.

Ko Olina is officially within the city limits of Kapolei and is a neighborhood more than an independent city. I would guess that the 5 communities have over 1,500 residences between them within walking distance to the new hotel site. The school district is Kapolei which is about 3 miles away and it has several new schools and bus service to them from Ko Olina. I think you'll find the area a good place to live as well as a great place to raise a family.

More to come!

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Ko Olina Resort | Ko Olina Marina | Ko Olina Real Estate

01-16-08
Celeste "SALLY" Cheeseman HAWAII Relocations & Real Estate
Celeste "SALLY" Cheeseman HAWAII Relocations & Real Estate: Real Estate Agent in Mililani, HI
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On 642 acres on the West side of the island of Oahu, Ko Olina Resort & Marina is the one of the elite of the family resort communities.

The entrance into the Ko Olina Community depicts the very essence of the community with a waterfall just crying out 'Aloha'! to all that pass through.

From single family homes to luxury condos and townhouses this community has everything at your fingertips for family, luxury living. Relocating to Hawaii? Just visiting? This is it!

Situated along the coast for ocean and marina views, Ko Olina Resorts & Marina Community also has the Ko Olina Golf Course for all you golfers out there. You just can't imagine the possibilities for this type of community living until you see it!

Following are some wonderful attractions as well as the complexes located in this 642 acre Ko Olina Community:

  • Ko Olina Gof Club (Site) IS one of the Premier Golf Clubs on the island. With multi tiered greens, water wonders and NO parallel fairways this 18 hole golf course is much to be desired.
  • 43-Acre Ko Olina Marina - For the fisherman or the recreational boater the marina offers floating concrete docks and accomodates 150 ft. vessels.

* Kai Lani @ Ko Olina: Kai Lani means Heavenly Waters in Hawaiian and this is the only low density residential oceanfront property at the resort. 116 two and three bedroom units.

* The Fairways @ Ko Olina: The first 2-3 bedroom townhouse project overlooking the Championship Golf Course on the 2nd and 3rd fairways.

* Coconut Plantation @ Ko Olina: 68 Cottages and 203 Villas and this little community within a community is complete with old fashioned General Store to a vintage train station.

* Ko Olina Hillside Villas: On a quiet corner of KoOlina Resorts and Marina these 2-3 bedroom Villa's are priced between $500,00 to $600,000

* Ko Olina Kai Golf Estates & Villas: Borndering the fairways of Ko Olina Golf Course and long since sold out, there are resales available starting from the high $600,000's.

  • * JW Marriott Ihilani Resort and Spa for the visitor: 17 stories, 387 guest rooms & 36 suites. 35,000-sq. ft., world-famous Spa. "treat yourself to the time-treasured therapies that bring gentle healing by the sea for mind, body, and spirit"

Three to four bedroom single family homes (example of two currently on the market):

Neighborhood

Land

Int

bd

ba

yr

Land Tenure

List Price

KO OLINA

5,656

1,865

3

2/1

2005

FS

$ 849,999

KO OLINA

6,529

2,123

4

3/0

2005

FS

$ 1,395,000

The following statistics for Ko Olina Condo's and Single Family homes are for the last six months to present.

Condos

# Active

2 bd/3bd

# In Escrow

2bd/3 bd

# Sold

2bd/3 bd

DOM

2bd/3 bd

Average Sales $

2 bdrm / 3bdrm

Coconut Plantation

8 / 3

0 / 0

4 / 4

119 / 123

$659,000 / $796.357

Kai Lani

5 / 2

0 / 1

1 / 2

103 / 140

$835,000 / $967,500

Ko Olina Fairways

1 / 5

0 / 1

4 / 3

64 / 100

$424,750 / $488,800

Ko Olina Hillside Villas

1 / 3

0 / 1

0 / 1

0 / 93

0 / $494,000

Ko Olina Kai Golf Estates

4 / 4

0 / 0

1 / 2

47 / 22

$530,000 / $539,666

# Active

3 bd/4bd

# In Escrow

3bd/4 bd

# Sold

3bd/4 bd

DOM

3bd/4 bd

Average Sales $

3 bdrm /4 bdrm

Single Family Homes

5 / 4

0 / 0

2 / 1

69 / 8

$960,000 /$1,200,000

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Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman is a Realtor-Associate with Century 21 Liberty Homes in Mililani, Hawaii. With a sharp understanding that a listening ear is the key to a client's needs she serves the island of Oahu (Honolulu County) and all Hawaii Military Relocating to Hawaii, Hawaii Retirees, Hawaii Job Transfers and Hawaii Residents. Website: www.hawaiihomesmarket.com

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