Windward Oʻahu
Kāneʻohe
Everything people want from Kailua, for several hundred thousand less.
- Median single-family
- $1,150,000-3% YoY
- Days on market
- 17 days
- Of original list
- 98.3%
- Your commute
- Test your route
July 2026 figures for the Kāneʻohe reporting area. Source: Honolulu Board of REALTORS®, compiled from MLS data.
Kāneʻohe sits under the same Koʻolau wall as Kailua, ten minutes further along the coast, and trades for meaningfully less. The single-family median here runs well below Kailua’s while the drive into town through the Likelike or the H-3 is shorter. Buyers who spend a year losing houses in Kailua very often buy in Kāneʻohe and stop being frustrated.
The bay is the thing. Kāneʻohe Bay is a reef lagoon with sandbars and flat water, which makes it a different proposition from Kailua’s open beach — better for a boat, less good for a beach day. The neighborhoods that touch it — Lulani Ocean, Mikiola, Kāneʻohe Bay itself — carry the premium.
Understand the rain before you commit. This is the wet side of the wet side, and the mauka neighborhoods below the pali get considerably more of it than the ones out toward the water. Mould, drainage and roof condition matter more here than almost anywhere else on the island, and a dry-season inspection can miss all three.
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The numbers
Market activity in Kāneʻohe: 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 | $1,150,000-3% | $680,000+10% |
| Median days on market | 17 days | 58 days |
| Percent of original list received | 98.3% | 99.2% |
| Closed sales | 24+20% | 14+8% |
| Active inventory | 53 | 57 |
| Year-to-date medianJan–Jul 2026 | $1,265,000+1% | $640,000-3% |
| Year-to-date closed salesJan–Jul 2026 | 123+13% | 81-14% |
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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