Developer offers leased luxury cars to buyers ADVERTISING Developer offers leased luxury cars to buyers HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu developer recently began offering consumers a Mercedes-Benz on a three-year lease if they buy a unit in one of three
Developer offers leased luxury cars to buyers
HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu developer recently began offering consumers a Mercedes-Benz on a three-year lease if they buy a unit in one of three towers.
Howard Hughes Corp. is offering the Mercedes incentive along with a few others in an attempt to spark sales at three of its towers. Hughes Corp. also is trying to give real estate agents extra motivation for getting customers to buy Ward Village condos, offering to advance brokers 75 percent of their sale commission.
The third incentive offers to pay for the sale commission expense of a homeowner who sells their home and buys a Ward Village condo.
Hughes Corp. has a master plan that envisions development of 16 towers with 4,300 homes along with 1 million square feet of retail and restaurant space on its 60-acre property known as Ward Centers. The company recently reported that Waiea and Anaha are almost sold out and Ae‘o is about two-thirds sold.
About 10 units priced from $4.4 million to $36 million are available at Waiea, which has 174 units. At the 317-unit Anaha, about 15 units remain for $2.9 million to $14 million. And at Ae‘o about 175 of 466 units remain unsold and are priced at $800,000 to $2 million.
Hawaiian Airlines to add new flights to West Coast
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaiian Airlines announced it will add three new daily routes between the neighbor islands and the West Coast in early 2018.
The new flights will be between Portland and Maui, Oakland and Kauai and Los Angeles and Kailua-Kona.
The airline states the arrival of new jets enabled the expansion.
The service between Portland and Maui will launch Jan. 18. The airline’s seasonal service between Oakland and Kauai will be offered until Sept. 4.
The daily flight between Los Angeles and Kona launches March 11.
The airline’s first flight of its new A321neo jet will be Jan. 8 between the West Coast and Hawaii on its existing Oakland-Maui service.
