Featured Maui Real Estate Property Listings

Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 47 Ala'apapa Place - click here for more information 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath, Executive home on the 6th fairway with all the 'bells & whistles'! $828,000
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 811 Lower Kimo Drive - click here for more information Lot 1 811 Lower Kimo Drive - click here for more information Lot 2 811 Lower Kimo Drive - click here for more information Lot 3 THREE 1/2-acre vacant lots with ocean and ranch land views.   Each is zoned for a main house and cottage. $400,000, $425,000 & $450,000
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 3610 Lower Kula Road - click here for more information A professional designer took extra care in designing this magnificent home. $2,995,000 Virtual Tour: www.HomeOnMaui.com/KulaView
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 131 Makailoa Street - click here for more infomation 11,761 square foot vacant lot, cleared, level and mowed with a County water meter installed. Best priced vacant lot (with water meter) Upcountry! $349,000
Olinda– Upcountry Real Estate 25 Lumahai Place – click here for more info This is the perfect Olinda home! Tucked away off Olinda Road – just a few minutes above Seabury Hall – lots of privacy and views AND a recently remodeled 1-bedroom, 1-bath cottage with its own driveway and yard. 2.88 acres. $1,390,000 Virtual Tour: www.HomeOnMaui.com/Olinda
Pukalani-Kulamalu – Upcountry Real Estate   33 Ala'apapa Place - click here for more info The views from this 3-bedroom, 3-bath home overlook the 6th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course to the ocean and West Maui Mountains beyond. The home and yard are impeccably maintained (challenge: try to find a speck of dust in the house or a weed in the yard!). $698,800  Virtual Tour: www.HomeOnMaui.com/33Alaapapa
Makawao – Upcountry Real Estate 230 Mokuahi St. – click here for more info TWO charming homes on a beautifully landscaped, incredibly private half-acre. $749,000
Haiku - Upcountry Real Estate 88 Hea'aula Place 3-bedroom, 2-bath, Hawaiian-style home on 2-acres with ocean views and a cute, detached 'rec'-room. $875,000 - In Escrow
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 151 Napoko Place A stunning view from this newer custom home at the incredible  price of $995,000 - In Escrow
Haiku – Upcountry Real Estate 2470 Kaupakalua Road A lovingly remodeled 5-bedroom, 2-bath home on 2-acres that is fenced and cross-fenced with Keawe posts. There is a 2-stall barn with tack room, a horse pasture, a 2,800 sq. ft. greenhouse and lots of fruit trees. $888,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 8060 Kula Highway 7.9-acres with coast to coast views! New gated large lot subdivision with only 5 lots. Spectacular! $1,100,000 - SOLD
Pukalani– Upcountry Real Estate 2886 Ualani Place Immculately maintained 3-bedroom, 2-bath, single-level home on the 9th fairway of the Pukalani Country Club. $699,000 - SOLD
Pukalani– Upcountry Real Estate 124 Ala’apapa Place Custom 4-bedroom, 3-bath home, detached cottage and 5-car garage! Hardwood floors, central AC, central vacuum, granite counter tops, travertine bathrooms and dramatic views. $1,095,000 - SOLD
Haiku – Upcountry Real Estate 1390 Kokomo Road Maliko House – a romantic and unique property with complete privacy, mature tropical landscaping, a 2,000 sf workshop/studio and much more on 1.9-acres. $2,350,000 - SOLD
Kahului – Central Maui Real Estate 13 Ho’owehi Place Like-new 3-bedroom, 3-bath home in a great new neighborhood! $609,000 - SOLD
Haiku – North Shore Real Estate 241 Waiama Way Haiku Hill at its best! 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath, 4,500 square foot home. Amazing attention to detail. Sweeping ocean views. $2,850,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 65 Maud’s Place This is a beautiful 5-bedroom home with a wonderful floor plan! Located in the Keokea area on a 2-acre view lot – this is one of the nicest homes on the market in Kula. $1,595,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 2936 Lower Kula Road This 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath home in lower Kula has a detached cottage and sits on a level, half-acre lot. GREAT views! $890,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 295 Pulehu Road Architecturally-designed home in desirable Lower Kula, surrounded by multi-million dollar homes on 2- to 20-acre parcels. $2,995,000 - SOLD
Haiku – North Shore Real Estate 2080 Lilikoi Rd. This C.W. Dickey-designed home and detached art studio was built in 1930 for Ethel and Harry Baldwin and moved to its present site in 1997. A “must see” if you are looking for views and privacy! $1,225,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate 670 Hoene St., Maui Uplands Beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with ocean views and detached 1 bedroom, 1 bath cottage on a half-acre. $985,000 - SOLD
Olinda – Upcountry Real Estate 2188 Pi’iholo Road Great cottage on a .5-acre in Olinda! Check it out! $598,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 28 Ka Drive Located in one of my favorite neighborhoods, Kula Kai, this single-level home sits on a private 14,255 sq. ft. lot with ocean view. $698,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate 111 Keleawe Street This 4-bedroom, 2-bath home has a flexible floor plan, a detached 2-bedroom cottage and a large workshop/storage building. It's a great value at $779,000 - SOLD
Kahului - Central Maui Real Estate Kahului Ikena #40-221 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo with NEW: carpet, tile, paint, faucets, blinds refrigerator and closet built-ins! Convenient location. $239,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate 50 Ahuwale Place 3 bedroom, 2 bath home plus detached studio/workshop with bathroom on 2 level, useable acres only 15 minutes to town. $885,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 320 Hololani Street Impeccably maintained, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on the 11th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course. $819,000 - SOLD
Haiku - North Shore Real Estate 373 Ulumalu Road Tucked back from the road among beautiful big trees is this 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home with 3 large bonus rooms. $750,000 - SOLD
Makawao – Upcountry Real Estate 1000 Ukiu Rd. Classic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath ‘plantation’ home in perfect condition on a 10,000+ sq. ft. lot.  Large kitchen and bedrooms; private backyard. Perfectly priced at $550,000 - SOLD
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 11 Welina Place This is a beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 4,364 square foot home on 2 acres in Kula 200. It is all on one level with the exception of the 816 square foot master bedroom suite which has a bi-coastal view. Fabulous! $1,685,000 - SOLD
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 297 Kulamanu Circle This like-new home has great curb appeal. Very nice landscaping and sideyard. Private and tranquil inside the home. Upper and lower decks overlook ranchland and Maalaea. Beautiful ocean view from living room and master BR. 9' ceilings upstairs. Fireplace (with blower) in living room. Double-pane windows throuighout. Built-in Bose sound system. Stainless steel appliances and Corian countertops. Walk-in closet in master BR. Whirlpool tub in master BA. Big family room with half-BA (and closet )downstairs. Easy to show. $860,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 157 Pi'imauna Street Kua'Aina Ridge: This gorgeous 3-bedroom, 2-bath home has amazing attention to detail (crown molding, plantation shuttered windows, bead-board wainscoting, etc.), a gourmet kitchen, perfect landscaping and nice north shore ocean views. $760,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 1576 Lower Kimo Drive Immaculate 4-bedroom, 3-bath (OR: 3-bedroom, 2-bath with attached 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana). Newly painted inside and out, brand new flooring and new appliances. Nothing left to do but move in and enjoy the great south shore ocean view and the fabulous Kula climate! $715,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 256 Hololani St. Beautiful 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana on the 12th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course. $929,000 - SOLD
Kihei - South Maui Real Estate Menehune Shores #416 Oh what a view! Walk in the front door and all you see are islands and ocean! This 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 4th floor, ‘front & center’ unit was completely renovated in 2001 – new EVERYTHING! $650,000 - SOLD
Haiku - Upcountry Real Estate 2080 Lilikoi Road This is the classic C.W. Dickey-designed home on 2-acres with an amazing view! $1,550,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 28 Mano Drive, Kula Kai Nice, big, comfortable 4-bedroom, 3-bath home in Kula Kai with a very flexible floor plan. This would be a great house for a large or extended family as the downstairs offers independence from the rest of the house. $825,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 350 Lokelani house A cute 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 2-car garage and panoramic north to south shore views! $700,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate This is the classic “old plantation house” that everyone wants! Complete with glass door knobs, French doors, a big porch and an old “wash house” out back! Located across from pineapple fields this is a great buy at $495,000 - SOLD

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Sugar Plantation Stores

The lives of the workers imported into the islands to work for the sugar plantations was structured around the services provided for them by their employers. They did not make much cash money, but the companies did provide many of the necessities of life, including housing, medical care, some kind of transportation and a way to buy food, clothing and other services.

The stores operated by the sugar plantations played an important role in Hawaii's plantation communities. One study, completed in 1980 by the University of Hawaii's Ethnic Studies Oral History Project, compiled the oral history collected by interviewers of a select group of Paia store-keepers that included several who worked in the plantation-run stores. The study provides an interesting look at a way of life that no longer exists on Maui.

Before 1945, the plantation stores provided the workers and other plantation residents with their basic needs. They catered to the various ethnic preferences in food, clothing and medicine and they also served as social gathering places. Often there were adjuncts to the stores, like a bakery or a small eatery, that were the result of ingenuity and talent of enterprising plantation workers. Everyone connected to the plantations ended up shopping at the stores and they became a natural meeting-place.

The plantation-run stores frequently did not make a profit since their function was to service the needs of the plantation workers. There was no profit incentive. Because of this, they were able to charge lower prices for their goods than stores that were not connected to the plantation.

The stores were set up to take orders and make free deliveries to workers who lived in outlying places. This was an especially valuable service for people who did not own a car and were not able to travel very far.

Extending store credit to the workers locked them into being regular customers at the plantation store (and, in those times of very small wages, made the stores the only choice for some families).  The plantation workers were allowed to run up a tab that became due every payday.

In 1930, the average weekly wages for male workers was $11.04. Women were paid an average of $7.80 per week. Workers were paid once a month and many times there was a lot more month left after the money was spent. At the plantation store the workers were allowed to charge their purchases at the company store by using their plantation identification (or "bango") number when they had no money.

But when payday came, the store got paid first. Customers with large families were not required to pay off their entire balance at once. They could maintain a credit balance and make partial payments each payday.  Meanwhile, the credit balance grew. If the balance of the worker's credit account got too large or the worker was having trouble paying the bill, the store could obtain the worker's pay envelope from the company office and the worker had to get his pay from the store…after the requisite payment to the store was "deducted." This practice gave the plantation-run stores a huge advantage over the independent stores who also tried offering credit. (Collection was not a problem unless the worker got fired from his job. Then the plantation store wrote off the tab as a bad debt. )

There were also tiny, independently operated "camp stores" within the individual camps. These were run by families living in the camps for the convenience of their neighbors. They had to get permission from the plantation office to set up a little store that sold small necessities like canned milk and toothpaste and razor blades as well as treats like soda and chips. They bought the goods they carried from the plantation wholesaler stores and often rounded out their offerings with homemade snacks. These stores were cash-only.

In 1930, the two major sugar companies were Maui Agricultural Company in Paia and Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company in Puunene. In 1948, the two companies merged becoming a single company, A&B (Alexander and Baldwin) Commercial Company.

Before the merger, there were two "lineages" of plantation-run stores. In 1930, Maui Agricultural Company's main store was the Paia Store, one of the island's largest stores.  It was located in Upper Paia, next to the Railroad Depot, across from the Paia Mill. Concrete steps across from the Paia Mill still mark the place where the store was located. The store opened in 1896 to serve Paia Plantation workers and their familes. The original store burned down in 1910 (along with the first Maui Agricultural Company office). A bigger store was built to replace it. The store closed down in 1961.

The Paia Service Station and the Paia Meat Market were also run by the company. About a quarter of a mile from the main store, the smaller Paia Camp Store was a convenience store for the workers in the camps and was located in a central area amid the ethnically segregated camps where the plantation workers lived. 

Six smaller branch stores serviced the outlying areas: two in Hamakuapoko, and one each in Keahua, Haliimaile, Pulehu and Kailua.

The Hawaii Commercial and Sugar Company (HC&S) stores were structured differently. The branch stores at Camp 1 (in Spreckelsville) and at Camp 5 (in Puunene) were fairly large and carried a variety of goods, serving as the main retail outlets for the residents. The Kahului Store, which was built in 1914, was almost exclusively a wholesaler, supplying independent, non-plantation stores as well as the HC&S plantation store system.

The Camp 1 Store at Spreckelsville was built in 1923. A fire in 1928 resulted in the store being rebuilt.

The branch store at Camp 5 also included a service station. There was a Puunene Store, which was opened by the HC&S in Kahului in 1908. The Puunene Meat Market and the Kihei Store were also a part of the HC&S "lineage."

Changes came with the passing of the years. World War II brought a tide of soldiers to Maui. The free-spending boys helped to spur on the development of the cash-and-carry, independent stores and many of the little camp store owners also benefitted.

In 1945, after the war ended, the plantation workers organized under the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. The first ILWU sugar strike involving all 35 plantations in Hawaii lasted 72 days in 1946. During the strike, the workers at the plantation stores continued to extend credit to any worker…even the ones on strike. "People have to eat," they said. Not everyone took advantage of the extended credit. They were not sure they could pay the tab, and the union set up soup kitchens that fed the families of the strikers so they were not so dependent on the stores.

The strike ended with the conversion of perquisites to cash pay. The time of store credit was coming to an end. As the perquisites were eliminated in exchange for higher wages, plantation workers gained greater buying power. When the union negotiated for twice-monthly paydays, instead of the previous once-monthly, it meant that the plantation workers were able to budget better. Then, as the use of the automobile increased, the decline of the old-style credit-and-order-taking plantation stores picked up speed.

In 1948, planning began on the new town of Kahului, Maui. It was called "Dream City" back then. Sponsored by both HC&S Company and the Kahului Railroad Company, the new town was located approximately one mile from Kahului Harbor. It marked the beginning of a 25-year plan to centralize the homes in one area. Commercial and business needs, schools and recreational facilities were also planned and eventually implemented.

The actual building of "Dream City" began in 1949. The first home was sold a year later. (The cost to an HC&S Company employee for a house and lot ranged in price from $6,000 to $9,200.)  By the early 1950's, the sugar plantations began closing down the camps. Remote plantation camps were being razed and the camp residents migrated to Dream City in Kahului. 

In 1959, just as Hawaii was celebrating Statehood, HC&S began closing down the plantation camps in earnest. Kahului was becoming the major population center, with modern supermarkets and shopping centers. The end of the camps meant the demise of the plantation-run stores. By mid-1961, HC&S had shut down all of the remaining plantation-run stores and closed out its wholesaling department.  Maui's oldest continuing merchandising operation, dating back over a century, was done.

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Local Grinds

Kalua Pork and Cabbage

Ingredients:

• 3 - 4 lb. Pork butt
  
• Hawaiian salt
  
• Liquid smoke
  
• 4-6 ti leaves
  
• 2 cups water
  
• 1 small head cabbage
  
  
  

Procedure:

Rub the pork butt with salt and dribble liquid smoke over the pork butt. Wrap the pork with several layers of ti leaves. Place the wrapped pork into the crock pot and pour the 2 cups of water around it. Cook on high for 4 hours.

When cooking is complete, take out the pork and removes ti leaves, while leaving the juices in the crock pot. When pork is cooled, shred the pork with hands or with 2 forks.

After shredding pork, cut the cabbage. Put shredded pork back into crock pot with cabbage and let cook for 30 - 60 minutes or until cabbage is softens. 

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