OAHU MEDIAN PRICES REMAIN STABLE
**Honolulu Board of REALTORS® Releases June and Second Quarter
Residential Resales Statistics**

During June, sales of 232 single-family homes and 355 condominiums were reported through the Board’s MLS, decreases of 31.4 percent for single-family homes and 35.1 percent for condominiums as compared to the same month last year. This brings total single-family home sales on Oahu to 1,413 for the first six months of 2008, a decrease of 25.7 percent over the same time period one year ago. Total condominium sales through June were 2,158, a 27.5 percent decrease from last year. The median prices paid for Oahu properties in the January through June period of 2008 were $629,000 and $330,000, respectively, a decrease of 2.5 percent for single-family homes and an increase of 1.5 percent for condominiums from the same time period in 2007. The total dollar sales volume generated in the housing market for the first six months of this year was $1.971 billion, a decrease of 25.4 percent, or $671 million, compared to the $2.642 billion produced one year ago.

Sales demand in the Oahu housing market has been slowing, but median prices are remaining within the same range we’ve seen since 2005.  The median price paid for a single-family home in June was 8.8 percent lower than a year ago, but remember that the price in June 2007, at $685,000, was the highest median ever achieved.

“While median prices have remained rather stable, the number of sales continued to drop in June and the annual sales rate has fallen below 8,000 units,” added Harvey Shapiro, Research Economist at the Board of REALTORS®. “The peak of the housing market was reached in 2005 with an annual sales rate of 13,000 units, while the trough occurred during the mid-90s when sales fell below 4,000 units. The residential markets could see further slowing throughout the summer, but this reduction in demand may ease toward the end of this year.”

According to the analysis conducted by the Board, using data collected from its MLS system, the statistics for the second quarter of 2008 are:

During the second quarter, the number of sales declined from last year and the median price paid for a single-family home declined by 4.4 percent from the record price paid one year ago, but the condominium price increased by 0.6 percent.  The total dollar volume of sales was $997.2 million in the second quarter, a decrease of $457.7 million, or 31.5 percent, from the $1.454 billion in sales achieved in the same quarter last year. 

The Median Prices shown in the chart below are the prices paid for existing residential properties reported sold through our Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system during the stated time period. The columns labeled Change indicate the direction of price change from the prior time period (NC is no change). The following table provides the quarterly median prices for the Oahu neighborhood groups.

GEOGRAPHIC AREA	SINGLE FAMILY HOMES	Change	CONDOMINIUMS	Change
Entire Island	$ 636,000		$ 330,000	NC
Metro Oahu (Town)	$ 710,000		$ 325,000	NC
Diamond Head	$ 900,000		$ 425,300
Hawaii Kai	$ 870,000		$ 557,500
Kailua	$ 785,000		$ 415,000
Kaneohe	$ 690,000		$ 400,000
North Shore	$ 617,500		$ 300,000
Central Oahu	$ 626,800		$ 319,000
Leeward Coast	$ 393,000		$ 170,000
Ewa Plain	$ 469,200		$ 315,000
Makakilo	$ 630,000		$ 302,000
Waipahu	$ 582,500		$ 275,000
Pearl City	$ 637,500		$ 298,500