Economist Paul Brewbaker had encouragement for the West Hawaii Association of Realtors Friday.
The Big Island’s real estate market doesn’t have an excess of housing inventory, and while the market has been “bubble-iscious” and prices have bounced around at lower levels than the last several years, cheap prices mean sales should be going up, Brewbaker said.
“It’s time to look forward and stop looking backward,” Brewbaker said during the organization’s annual meeting at King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel. “The story is, you will be hating life in 2018 if you do not buy this house now.”
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