Aloha and welcome to my life on Maui!
What can I say living on Maui has been a wonderful experience? I arrived on Maui at the age of 19, with hundred dollars in my pocket and a surfboard. When I was 25 years old I built my first home in Haiku Maui. Since then my wife Ivy and I have built four other homes for our family. My real success is my family. My wife Ivy and I raised four wonderful kids which they are all doing extremely well and they are raising their own families.
Before I got into real estate on Maui I was a flooring contractor for 16 years and owned a very successful interior store Nickens Interiors. Our last project was working with Steve Goodfellow on the last phase of construction of building C in Makena Surf.
During my 25 years of selling Maui real estate, I have had the pleasure of working with some of Maui’s finest firms and worked on many of Maui’s quality resort developments.
Maui real estate has been a lifelong passion of mine, and I have received numerous awards as a Top Producer in my 25-year career. I am blessed working and living on Maui for the past 48 years. The diversity of my interests has allowed me to develop the sales and marketing skills I currently use to successfully brand and market unique real estate properties on Maui.
I am a web developer, video marketer and top blogger in the State of Hawaii. I use Social Media marketing to promote my properties and tie them into the Maui lifestyles and share them with the world. My focus is to get the word out through Internet ranking, social media and interacting with agents and buyers in Canada and the mainland U.S.A. through real estate groups and organizations I belong to. These skills benefit my clients and customers to give their listed properties worldwide exposure.
I have had the honor to work on many of Maui’s most prestigious developments on sales teams which include Wailea Beach Villas, Ho’olei Wailea a Marty Quill development, and Papali Wailea. Other project sales I have successfully sold include Wailea Fairway Villas and a project in Spreckelsville on Maui’s Northshore with Evert Dowling. I also represent Dan Goodfellow on a small housing development on the Northshore.
Windsurfing with my friend and client Sandra from Switzerland
My experience extends from the beach communities of Wailea, Kihei, Kaanapali Resort, to country homes and luxury estates in Wailuku, Kahului, Upcountry Kula, Pukalani, Haiku, Maui North-shore. I also have extensive experience in land development. I believe in hard work that produces results. I am committed to effectively producing a successful closing for your real estate transaction on Maui.
My family means everything to me. My wife and I raised two boys, who are top surfers on Maui. Micah a pro surfer and manager of Dakine international pro surf team and marketing division. He is married to a charming girl and has a cute daughter named Makenna. My other son Nate is a computer programmer, married to a talented girl with two daughters living on Maui.
Micah my oldest
My oldest daughter is living in San Clemente with her family. My daughter Meili works at the front desk at the Wailea Marriott and in her spare time she is with her horses, and dog Odie or working out at the gym with her friends. My lovely wife is born and raised on Maui, my best friend, talented artist, just a great human being.
I have been a passionate waterman since I was a young boy. When my boys were competing in the state surf contest I was right alongside them competing for 10-years. I sailed 16 ft Prindle Cats, surf and windsurf, it keeps me young and in shape. Maui has so much to offer in lifestyles and healthy living.
A recent article in Elite’s Newsletter January 2019
Last August, Steve accepted an SPRE referral that turned out to be a hardship situation. The Seller absolutely had to sell in order to move forward with any financial footing yet had no funds to cover anything. In the true spirit of “treating every transaction as if it were his own”, Steve reached into his own pocket to get the property sold and closed including property cleaning, removing automobiles from the site and much, much more. He also helped every potential Buyer see past the condition to realize the value of the property. Without Steve, the Seller would have lost the home and suffered greatly. The home closed this week and Steve noted that “The seller is really happy and I was happy to help him move on with his life.”
Treating every transaction as our own is not just something we say, it’s something we do. Steve, thank you so much!
–Chuck Garrett,
Over the years I have been involved with Hope Chapel in Kihei and worked with youth along with my wife. I had the pleasure of visiting the Philippines (2011) putting on a surf contest and sports camps for kids in the outer islands of Sariago with a group of men from Bank of Hawaii, Trilogy, contractors and tattoo artist.
We brought down thanks to Hawaiian Airlines, surfboards skateboards, clothes and put on a surf event for 150 kids on the outer islands serving food and having fun with the kids. Kids were coming out of the woodwork. We put on sports camps in the local schools which was a lot of fun. I didn’t mention that we surfed some really good waves while we were down there. We also worked on a youth center upgrading the buildings and built skateboard ramps. I have also been involved in raising funds for relief projects that have been hit by Typhoons in the Philippines.
Most recently my wife and I have been working with Camp Apape, which is a prison outreach for kids whose parents are in prison.
Da Kine Outreach Event
I have also have been involved with Habit for Humanities and helping with dinners at the Homeless Shelter.
So there you go, I take my job very seriously. Even after the close of escrow, my job is never done. I am there to serve my clients to the best of my ability. So if you have any questions about Maui real estate, please give me a call. With 49 years on Maui, I can help you with all your real estate needs. I work with Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers, #1 in luxury sales in the State of Hawaii. Hawaii Life offers the newest technology, support staff, and marketing team that does an amazing job of promoting your property. You can request my listing presentation to learn more about my services from professional photos, video, postcards sent out to the community, internet marketing, ads on Facebook and Instagram, on top of blogging that I do for reaching out on the internet through many portals on-line.
So if you are buying or selling real estate on Maui, give me a call I would love to talk to you about how I can help you with all your Maui real estate needs
My favorite quote, today is a good day, make it count!
Aloha,
Steven C. Nickens R(S), GRI, ABR
Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers
Offices in The Shops at Wailea, Kihei, Paia, and Kapalua
Serving all Maui
Cell:808-280-2208
Email:nickensmaui@gmail.com
Website: nickensmaui.com
Instagram: Stevenickensmaui