Martha Rush is a REALTOR® and Maui Luxury Property Specialist at Compass in Wailea, Hawaii license RB-19743, and leads Dennis & Martha Rush with Dennis Rush. She works with clients in English, Spanish and Italian. This page sets out her license, brokerage, languages, memberships and how to reach her.
Dennis Rush is a REALTOR® at Compass in Wailea, Maui, Hawaii license RB-16109, and leads Dennis & Martha Rush with Martha Rush. The team's published sales history lists 73 closed sales in the Maui MLS from January 2021 to October 2026, $259.7 million in all, 31 of them in Wailea-Makena. This page sets out his record, recognition, memberships and how to reach him.
Maui County sets property tax by use, so a second home usually lands in the non-owner-occupied class or, if it is a condo zoned for vacation rental, the TVR-STRH class. Here are the FY2026-27 rates and tier breaks, what changed, the homeowner and long-term rental exemptions, the County's dates and a worked example.
On Maui, zoning decides whether a condo can be rented for stays shorter than 180 days. Hotel-zoned condos keep that use; apartment-zoned condos on the County's list lose it on January 1, 2031 in South Maui unless they are rezoned. This guide shows how to check one unit and what County records show for South Maui complexes.
When the seller of Maui property is not a Hawaii resident, the buyer withholds 7.25% of the price for the State under HARPTA, and a seller who is a foreign person also faces a separate 15% federal FIRPTA withholding. This guide follows the HARPTA decision path Dennis Rush gives sellers, with the forms, exemptions, refunds, 1031 exchanges and LLC or trust ownership rules from the Hawaii Department of Taxation and the IRS.
Ordinance 5909, Maui's Bill 9, ends vacation rental use in apartment-zoned condominiums on January 1, 2031 in South Maui and January 1, 2029 in West Maui, while hotel-zoned condominiums are not affected. Here is what the ordinance says, where the Minatoya list came from, where the H-3 and H-4 rezonings stand as of October 21, 2026, and what an owner can do.
A seller's guide to Wailea and Makena luxury homes and condominiums: how to price when only a few sales compare, what Hawaii law requires you to disclose and deliver, what selling costs, and how to sell from the mainland. Rates and deadlines were checked against State of Hawaii sources on October 21, 2026.
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