The growing luxury real estate brokerage firm Hawaii Life is a bit bigger after acquiring Maui Estates International in a deal that Hawaii Life said also makes it the exclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate on Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Kauai and Hawaii island.
Hawaii Life announced the acquisition Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed.
As part of the deal, Kapalua-based Maui Estates and its nine agents, including principal broker Mary Anne Fitch, will operate under the Hawaii Life name. Fitch founded Maui Estates in 2009.
Hawaii Life was founded in 2008 on Kauai and now claims to be the third-largest residential real estate brokerage firm in Hawaii with 240 brokers, agents and employees in 14 offices statewide.
Pair of isle residents open Chem-Dry cleaning service
Naeole and Julian McFadden, lifelong residents of the Kaneohe/Kahaluu district, recently opened an Oahu Chem-Dry in the area.
The carpet cleaning process generates natural carbon dioxide to produce millions of tiny, effervescent bubbles that penetrate the carpet fiber, dissolve dirt and stains quickly and act as tiny propellants that lift dirt to the surface for extraction.
For more information, go to oahuchemdry.com, email info@oahuchemdry.com or call 308-3160.
On the Move
Women’s Fund of Hawaii has elected its officers for 2016: Lyla Cachola Prather, chair of board of directors; Sharon V. Lovejoy, vice chair; Judy Bishop, treasurer; Beth Whitehead, co-treasurer; and Annie Valentin, secretary.
Hawaiian Airlines has appointed Jay Schaefer as vice president and treasurer. He has more than 20 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, and treasury operations. Schaefer previously served in various financial and analysis roles for Amazon in Seattle. He also spent 13 years at Alaska Air Group, where he had been a manager, director and vice president.
