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Overview
Hawaiian Paradise Park is an amazing neighborhood located in the Puna District of the Big Island. With over 9,000 fee simple lots ranging from half acre to full acres and everything from oceanfront villas to jungle cottages, we have something for everyone. With homes selling for an average of $291,000 and land for $77,000 we offer value and inventory. Located just minutes from Hilo, Keaau and Pahoa, in climate zones that range from rainforests to the coastal "banana belt," we have the advantages of having access to all city services and can still maintain a laid-back rural lifestyle.
The land area for Hawaiian Paradise Park and Kings Landing was sold to David Watumull’s father. I believe it wasn’t for a figure necessarily, but an arrangement where by certain things changed hands; for instance, the Watumull building in Honolulu became the Shipman building. (This is one of the things I was told accounted for the sale) I do know that it was in anticipation of statehood that these lots started to be marketed. One of the first lots that I bought was in Block 10 for $545.00 or something like that. I think it was $85 down and $15 a month at 6%. In those days that wiped me out just to make a down payment, and to try to keep up the payments was something! It’s a funny thing in those days-it wasn’t as easy to sell lots at $795 as it is today to sell lots at five, six, seven, eight or more thousand dollars per lot. Oddly enough, some people who turned up their noses, today are buying now that the prices are greatly increased over what it was at the end of the 1950’s and beginning of the 1960’s. There was a promotion at the very beginning, (I was not here at this several people told me about it). During this promotion lots were made available only to people on the island, next to people within the state, and then it was thrown open to the people on the mainland. I know they had promotions in California, New York, Chicago, Detroit and places like that. As a matter of fact, I bought my first lot in a snow storm in New York City, back in 1959 and it was a sight unseen kind of thing. I took a lot of ribbing from my friends but when I came here to look at the lot I liked it well enough that I decided I was going to stay. I could definitely see a future here, despite some of the discouraging things that were said. I know I had a hard time getting my first poker game going out here, because people didn’t think that I had a bathroom or any kind of facilities whatsoever and they were very reluctant to come out. I was the only resident, so I guess I am the first permanent resident, of the sub-division. I was here a couple of years before the next families came, one was Coombs who built the house that the Mishimoras occupy now, and the other was St. Croix.
Jeff and Manu Spaur are with REMAX Island Surf Realty. Contact them at (808) 987-7655, (808) 938-5510, or jspaur@remax.net.
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