Urban Oʻahu
Kapahulu & Diamond Head
Close enough to town that the car becomes optional rather than essential.
- Median single-family
- $1,400,000+7% YoY
- Days on market
- 9 days
- Of original list
- 100.4%
- To downtown
- 10–15 min to downtown
July 2026 figures for the Kapahulu – Diamond Head reporting area. Source: Honolulu Board of REALTORS®, compiled from MLS data.
This is where buyers land when they want a house rather than a unit but are not willing to trade an hour of the day for it. Kapahulu, Kaimukī and Pālolo are pre-war stock on small lots, close together, with the shops at the end of the street instead of at the end of a drive.
Houses here move fast and close at or above where they started — the July figures below show single-family homes going under contract in single-digit days at slightly over original list. That is not a market where a slow offer wins. Come pre-approved and ready to write.
The stock is the catch. Much of it is old, and old on Oʻahu means termites, single-wall construction, plumbing of uncertain vintage, and permits for work that nobody pulled. Inspect hard. The renovated ones command a real premium precisely because so few of them are.
The numbers
What Kapahulu & Diamond Head actually did in 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 | $1,400,000+7% | $564,000-67% |
| Median days on market | 9 days | 60 days |
| Percent of original list received | 100.4% | 95.6% |
| Closed sales | 15-17% | 12+9% |
| Active inventory | 58 | 54 |
| Year-to-date medianJan–Jul 2026 | $1,400,000+8% | $660,000+8% |
| Year-to-date closed salesJan–Jul 2026 | 107-6% | 61+17% |
Oʻahu Local Market Update, July 2026. Percent changes are against Jul 2025. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed — and a median is an average of other people’s houses, not an estimate of yours.
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