Hawaiian Houses

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Usually had a small doorway and no window. The Hawaiian architect - a member of the Ka-huna category with particular construction skills - was named poeh kuhikuhihihiu`uone. It is assumed that they have created fish ponds, watering schemes, heau and other important buildings. Ten years after coming into touch with the West, blades of gras were further used.

By 1816, the old blades of gras were still widespread, but clay and blocks of corruption were also constructed near the port of Honolulu. Until 1837, piligras and forest were still the most important building material, but building began to integrate westerly features such as window frames, high ceiling and large portals.

John Young and Isaac Davis constructed the first west wall building in Kailua-Kona in 1795. In Lahaina, three years later, a building of a castle made of bricks was made.

25 most expensive houses in Hawaii

When you want to own one of Hawaii's best houses, it will help to be in computer or financial investments as well. Utilizing official recordings gathered by Title Guaranty Hawaii, we have put together a listing of Hawaii's most expensive houses - excluding links dotted with extensive outdoor spas, private tenis court facilities, and breathtaking sea vistas, places for which the yearly land income bill is a chill half million.

Not only are these wealthy enough to buy a $20 million home, but they are several of them in different parts of the globe. The Oahu has some famous, costly neighbourhoods like Kahala, Portlock and Lanikai, but they don't appear in the top 10 on our schedule. Actually, there are only six Oahu real estate objects on the whole roster.

If you' re talking about shameless property, it's all about Big Island, where you'll find nine of the 10 most pricey houses in Hawaii, all along the Kona coast. In 2005, we compiled a similar checklist, restricted to the city and county of Honolulu. The expansion of the area of application to the whole of Hawaii has increased the use considerably:

Whereas the top real estate in 2005 was estimated at $15.2 million, this figure would not even bring you to the bottom of this year's ranking. Dollars stated for each home are the county's most recent valuation of the value for taxation use. Most of the time, the object detail is also supported by public accessible town and district information.

Please note: We have limited this checklist to individual packages in the sense of the district revenue authorities. The Hawaii country estimates the home alone at $28.5 million, but most of the $61 million rating of this home is the country itself. It' the first package in the Kukio luxurious residence, Los IA.

Kukio is a relatively recent evolution, an even more exclusively sequel to the already stunning Hualalai resorts next-door, but it's already at the top of the ranking. There are seven of the state's 25 most pricey houses in one of the three sections of this haven on the Conca coast.

Real estate holdings are information of general interest, but many of the milliaires and millions on our roster have erected barriers of private sphere between themselves and the fiscal documents. For example, the most costly home number 2 is formally in the possession of Kukio Limited. Kukio, this plot by the sea, conquers course no. 3, although it is surrounded by hectares of dark volcanic stone in Kona; the luxurious layout and the course that will finally encircle it still have to be constructed.

In 2006, when she bought the real estate, she served as chairman and chief executive officer of Autodesk, a designer softwares business, and also worked for Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corp. The Wailea home, the most pricey home in Maui and one of three houses on our two-mile shoreline listing, is held by Thom Weisel, a San Francisco-based financial backer who established the Thomas Weisel Partners Group.

To our best judgement, the proprietor of this generous Kona settlement is the only one who possessed two of the houses on this inventory (even if it was not at the same time). Selling his villa on the cliffs of Mauna Kea (no. 13), he went a few kilometres down the coastline to one of the more recent evolutions of Kukio.

Beneath Michael Dell's extensive Kukio mansion, just two batches away, is another multi-structure link owned by David L. Anderson, General Manager of Sutter Hill Ventures. Priceless as the seaside home is, the five-bedroom home is even more priceless - 14 million dollars of unadulterated luxuriousness. Over half of Hawaii's 25 best houses are on the Kona Coast, and they are all in residential resorts - Kukio, Mauna Lani, Mauna Kea and Hualalai.

Hualalai is the most pricey plot in Hualalai and overlooks the green of the prestigious Hualalai course. Kukios south lake and then the sea. Uh, (Although when we were flying across the lot, the pool was almost empty. The maintenance) of fountains in dry Kona cannot be simple.

Expensive as they may be, many of the other homes on our listing are crammed right next to other villas. However, this breathtaking estate is situated all alone at the top of Hualalai with scenic sea views. Ford's number 85 on his 2009 ranking of the 400 wealthiest Americans, with a net value of $3.5 billion, was Forbes.

and Paula Carano. Today he is also on the executive committee of Kratos, a German defence and safety company, as well as on a linen lists of other companies, both publicly and privately owned. Carano Kukio Haus may look small in comparison to many other Kona properties, but it fills much of the more than 14,000 square meter interior: The 18.2 million dollar Kukio Haus is worth almost five percent as much as the country it stands on.

Mint Yugen Gaisha, a Japan-based company, acquired this for 29 million dollars in 2006, making it one of Hawaii's biggest apartment sellers in the last ten years. The one-storey Kahala House, initially constructed in 1988 by former Kahala Hilton proprietor William Weinberg, has the best of everything: it even had an under-ground gas station in the front garden so you can refuel your car right in the carport.

Sarofim, an Egyptian-born asset management firm known as "The Sphinx", purchased the home in 1999 for $15 million and has since extensively renovated the ageing Kahala Avenue site. This Mauna Kea resort real estate became one of Hawaii's largest housing deals when it was purchased for $29 million in 2007.

Richard Rocker, the realtor who arranged the sales, says: "I see many unusual, costly houses, and so many of them are simply high. 5-hectare nature reserve in front and another 3-hectare communal area in the background. You' ll get 8 hectares of private space in the midst of a resorts.

" Palekaiko Limited Partnership, whose Montreal offices are identical to Cirque du Soleil's head offices, is the official owner of the real estate. Forbes' latest ranking of the world's billions ofaires says Guy Laliberte, the creator of the international famous Circus, is valued at 2.5 billion dollars. Looking out over the waters directly opposite the Mauna Lani Resort cove, this wedge-shaped Kona plot is part of Toyota Motor Sales USA.

It is one of the older houses on our inventory, constructed in 1992, but has preserved its value with an estimate of 14.7 million dollars. Situated on the outskirts of the Mauna Kea Resort, next to the old Lurline Roth property, this vast 5 hectare property is the northernmost of our Kona Coast homes.

It is one of the few real estate on our roster that has sells for less than its estimated value. The Chikako Takeda achieved this Kahala Avenue monument for an economical $9.7 million in 2002. Although you can't see it on the picture, the building is twice as long as it is broad.

The 17,408 square feet large interiors are almost half a hectare cottage. In 2005, when we collected the 25 most costly houses on Oahu, this Kahala home was at the top of the ranking. Not even the most pricey real estate in Kahala this year. The homeowner Tomomi Kimura, president of a Tokyo-based cruise line, hired the home in 1992, the same year the Barcelona Olympic Games were underway.

"Yamamoto recalls when HONOLULU asked him in 2005 that "the proprietor wanted the designs to mirror this Barcelona style". When this area on Kahala Avenue looks like a beach front Motel, then somehow it is. Most of the land is used by the Konami Corp. family. Further characteristics are 50 foot long glazed window, a training area, a barbeque area and a state-of-the-art audio-visual system, says Toshi Suzuki, the resident designer who created the site's front side in 2000.

McCaffery's 3 million dollar home stands alone on a point in Makena, bordered on three sides by the sea. Wailea's land, known as sand surge, is not used as a full-time resident. "We' ve integrated Christian artwork into the whole house," says Jeff Long, the architecture director. Sandra Kurtzig, known by Entrepreneur Magazine as the "First Lady of the Computer", owns this slim Kona booth.

Kapalua's manor is located next to the home of Christian Riese Lassen (No. 23). Here the country definitely dominates the home.