It was a busy October for Maui’s housing market, according to data released Tuesday by the Realtors Association of Maui that showed sales rose by double-digit percentages to a level not seen in a decade.
There were 105 single-family houses and 105 condominiums sold last month. The combined total of 210 sales was the highest for October since 2005 when there were 244 sales.
Compared with the same month last year, volume was up 25 percent from 84 single-family home sales and up 10.5 percent from 95 condo sales.
Median sale price changes last month, however, were more modest and mixed.
The median single-family home sale price in October was $585,000, up 3.4 percent from $566,000 a year earlier. The median condo sale price decreased 6.2 percent to $392,900 from $419,000 in the same period.
Haleiwa sandwich shop to open downtown
Through a licensing agreement, Storto’s Deli & Sandwich Shoppe will open in Davies Pacific Center in January.
Licensee Lyn Nakatani will operate with the same sandwiches and sides offered in the original Haleiwa company, which has been in business for more than 38 years.
Storto’s Downtown Deli & Sandwich Shoppe will be on the Merchant Street side of the Bishop Street building, next to Otto Cake.
Alexander Peach of Colliers International represented Storto’s Downtown in the transaction.
T-Mobile exempts streaming video data
NEW YORK >> Streaming video from Netflix, HBO and other leading services will no longer count toward data limits under T-Mobile’s higher data plans.
T-Mobile also said Tuesday that it will optimize video streams to maintain DVD-level quality on a phone without transmitting as much data. Although DVD quality is short of high definition, which many phones are capable of displaying, the company doesn’t believe most people will notice.
3 charged in cyberattacks on finance firms
NEW YORK >> Two men held in Israel and one U.S. citizen believed to be living in Moscow have been charged with stealing the contact information of more than 100 million customers of U.S. financial institutions to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal profits, authorities said Tuesday.
The summer 2014 theft of data such as names, addresses, emails and phone numbers of more than 83 million customers of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the nation’s biggest bank by assets, was described at a news conference by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as “the single largest theft of customer data from a U.S. financial institution ever.”
Chipotle reopening stores after outbreak
SEATTLE >> Chipotle said Tuesday that it is reopening the 43 Pacific Northwest restaurants it closed amid an E. coli outbreak after tests at the Mexican-food chain came back negative for the bacteria.
Health officials have not found a cause of the outbreak last month, but concluded there is no ongoing risk of contracting the illness that has sickened about 40 people.
Chipotle will reopen the restaurants in Washington state and Oregon in the coming days after giving them a deep cleaning and ordering a fresh supply of ingredients, the company said. It also said it is instituting additional safety procedures and audits in all of its 2,000 restaurants.
ON THE MOVE
Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties has announced that Lourie Mateo is an independent agent for its Leeward office. Prior to joining the company, Mateo served as an assistant manager at the Mill Bar and Grill in Mililani.
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced the appointment of Konrad Ng as executive director of Doris Duke’s Shangri La, which is a center for the study of Islamic culture and arts. Ng is a scholar, curator and arts administrator with national experience, including serving as director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Center in Washington, D.C.
The Hawaiian Humane Society has announced the following board of directors for 2015-2017: Ginny Tiu, chairwoman; Lawrence D. Rodriguez, vice chairman; Ernest H. Fukeda Jr., treasurer; and Mi Kosasa, secretary.
