A Hawaii Home Built to Withstand a Hurricane Captures House of the Year Title A Hawaii Home Built to Withstand a Hurricane Captures House of the Year Title
Voters of WSJ.com s 2020 competition cast more than 293,000 ballots, with this oceanfront property on Kauai s southern coast coming out on top
published : 4 Feb 2021 at 04:00
34 The property sits on 0.75 acres and has roughly 500 feet of ocean frontage. (Photo: KRISTIN HOSHINO FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL)
What is it about Hawaii that keeps House of the Year voters coming back for more?
For the third consecutive year, a home from the Aloha state landed atop WSJ.com s annual House of the Year contest. Readers chose the winner from our 52 House of the Week victors, with a total of 293,180 votes cast.
“When I landed at the airport it was like, ‘What did I really buy?’” McConnell said. “But the first time I walked in the house I was stoked.”
McConnell isn’t alone. The newfound freedoms of remote working have prompted a wave of people to flee the US mainland for the Hawaiian islands. While the total number of relocatees is unknown, signs point towards a major influx. Real estate agents say demand has reached a fever pitch. A scheme backed by local business owners to sponsor remote-workers’ flights to Honolulu, in exchange for community service, received more than 50,000 applications for just 50 slots.
Kauai Realtors See Uptick In People Buying Houses Sight-Unseen - Honolulu Civil Beat
Kauai Realtors See Uptick In People Buying Houses Sight-Unseen
Relocations to Kauai from the mainland have become so common that it’s hard to drive more than a few miles on the island without seeing multiple out-of-state license plates. Reading time: 8 minutes.
Jasmine Maes, a midwife, and Steve O’Neal, who works in construction, share one key thing in common. Both moved from California to Kauai because they saw the COVID-19 pandemic closing in on them.
They chose places to live on Kauai sight-unseen Maes as a new homeowner who settled here near the island’s largest population center, Kapaa, and O’Neal as a renter who intends to buy.
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