South Maui Real Estate

South Maui includes Hawaii's fastest growing urban area, and is the most recently developed part of the island. It can also be said to include the town and harbor of Ma‘alaea, and it undoubtedly includes the upscale communities of Wailea and Makena where luxury residences and resort developments predominate.

Tourism is the primary business of Wailea although there are many condominium developments and private homes as well.

South Maui’s rapidly increasing population lives on the leeward side of the island, so it is dry and warm. Haleakala’s “weather shadow” prevents both rain and trade winds from reaching the area, but a complex array of winds, some of them also caused by the shape of the volcano, sweep through the district usually preventing it from being as hot as Lahaina.