{"id":111130,"date":"2020-04-30T05:56:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=111130"},"modified":"2020-04-30T05:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:56:47","slug":"market-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=111130","title":{"rendered":"Market Crash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111134\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>i was looking at all the multimillion dollar condos the other day. \u00a0for the past decades, the real estate market in Hawaii has been booming. \u00a0the question always was &#8220;when is it going to start going down?&#8221; \u00a0i have a feeling that downward trend will start now, thanks to the coronavirus. \u00a0at the 37% unemployment rate in Hawaii, now is not the time to buy for many. \u00a0and with the Chinese investors pulling back, \u00a0the full price cash deals will disappear. \u00a0no more AirBnb&#8217;s and no more mega houses will also probably contribute to prices falling. \u00a0so is now a good time to buy? \u00a0we shall see very soon&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-111132\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>when this lockdown went into effect,\u00a0Louis Vuitton started by boarding up all its windows. \u00a0other luxury shops like Cartier have emptied out all its merchandise from the stores. \u00a0as we go into May, i&#8217;m hoping stores will open little by little. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111135\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>too early for the hotels to open because we still shouldn&#8217;t let in tourists at this point. \u00a0the reason the coronavirus cases are dropping is because we&#8217;re not letting tourists bring it here. \u00a0so it makes sense to keep it this way for a little while more. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111136\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>passed by the Marriot hotel and all the stores were boarded up. \u00a0still a creepy feeling here in Waikiki&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111137\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" \/>so what do people do during the lockdown? \u00a0Toda-san sent me this photo so he&#8217;s probably looking back at old memories and dreaming of the day we can make new ones. \u00a0this was North Sumatra back in 2016. \u00a0that was an amazing boat trip!\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111133\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4467-663x884.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"884\" \/>and Rikita-san in Japan is playing with his beautiful Princess Leia! \u00a0can&#8217;t wait to take this little Princess surfing one day in Hawaii!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was looking at all the multimillion dollar condos the other day. \u00a0for the past decades, the real estate market in Hawaii has been booming. \u00a0the question always was &#8220;when is it going to start going down?&#8221; \u00a0i have a feeling that downward trend will start now, thanks to the coronavirus. \u00a0at the 37% unemployment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-111130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}