A City Council committee delayed a decision yesterday on a measure that would expand permitting of bed-and-breakfast houses on Oahu, an issue that has long divided the community and pushed city officials to …

A national economic research firm says Honolulu’s housing market is set up for one of the biggest price falls by 2011 among large U.S. metropolitan areas.

While the economy persists in a very weak state nationwide, the local real estate industry, thankfully, remains steady.

Residential real estate sales ended with a sputter in December, with a 19.2 percent drop in home sales compared with last year, although there was a slightly higher median price of $626,500. Condo sales fared …

Sales and median prices of previously owned homes on the Big Island and Kaua’i were mostly lower last month, capping what was a year of modest price declines and big drops in sales volume.

O’ahu’s housing market ended 2008 on a surprise up note – albeit an anomalous one – with a rise in the median sale price for previously owned single-family homes.

The credit crunch, housing crisis and overall downturn in the global economy will continue to be felt in Hawaii this year as companies cut their work forces, housing prices continue their slump and travelers …

Hawaii’s economy slowed substantially in 2008, as employers trimmed jobs and some of the state’s largest companies filed for bankruptcy or were forced to shut down altogether.

Prudential Locations, Hawaii’s largest locally owned and operated real estate company, unveiled today its annual “State of Real Estate” report for 2009.

Surf breaks on the beach below the vacation home where President-elect Barack Obama will stay during his holiday in Hawaii.