Windward Oʻahu
Kailua
You wait for the right one in Kailua, and it is worth the wait.
- Median single-family
- $1,782,000+2% YoY
- Days on market
- 13 days
- Of original list
- 99.1%
- Your commute
- Test your route
July 2026 figures for the Kailua – Waimānalo reporting area, covering Waimānalo and Kaʻōhao as well as Kailua. Source: Honolulu Board of REALTORS®, compiled from MLS data.
Kailua does not turn over quickly. The people who live here bought to stay, and the streets closest to the beach trade so rarely that a listing on one of them is an event rather than an option. That scarcity is the whole story of the market here.
What you get in return is a town that still functions as a town. The morning is people walking to coffee, not a shuttle from a parking structure. Enchanted Lake and Coconut Grove carry the bulk of the family inventory; Lanikai and the beachside blocks are their own market entirely.
Budget for the commute honestly. Town is thirty-five minutes on a good morning through the Pali, and the Pali does not always have good mornings.
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The numbers
Market activity in Kailua – Waimānalo: July 2026
Single-family homes and condos move on different clocks, so they are reported separately. A dash means the report recorded no closed sales that month — not a figure we are missing. And read the closed-sales row before you read any percentage above it: in a month with only a handful of sales, a change of several hundred percent is arithmetic rather than a trend, which is what the year-to-date rows are there to settle.
| Metric | Single-family | Condo |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $1,782,000+2% | $732,500-23% |
| Median days on market | 13 days | 35 days |
| Percent of original list received | 99.1% | 96.3% |
| Closed sales | 28+33% | 12+33% |
| Active inventory | 86 | 35 |
| Year-to-date medianJan–Jul 2026 | $1,720,000+2% | $750,000-3% |
| Year-to-date closed salesJan–Jul 2026 | 150+3% | 52-7% |
Oʻahu Local Market Update, July 2026. Percent changes are against Jul 2025. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed — and the median is the middle sale price, not an estimate of your property.
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