Poke has been an island favorite in Hawai'i for centuries. While the poke Native Hawaiians prepared was quite different from what we enjoy today—chopped raw ocean and reef fish, bones and all, sea salt, seaweed, and kukui nut—it set a precedent for the hearty raw fish salad that has spread in popula [...]

The developers of The Mandarin Oriental Honolulu hotel and condominium project near the Hawaii Convention Center plan to launch sales of the project’s 99 luxury residences next month with prices starting at $3.5 million, by marketing to current Mandarin Oriental clients before the start of construct [...]

A new study ranks Honolulu No.6 out of 62 large US cities in terms of home ownership, unemployment, debt-to-income ratio and more.

More single-family homes on Oahu have sold for $10 million or more during the first nine months of 2018 than in each of the past 18 years, and Honolulu condominiums with units selling for the same stratospheric prices are attracting a new group of ultra high-net-worth buyers to Hawaii, helping to dr [...]

The sale of a 15-acre oceanfront estate with a 10,000-square-foot home above Secret Beach on the North Shore of Kauai has closed for $46.1 million, the highest price for a Hawaii residential property so far in 2018, and a new all-time record for a residential property in Hawaii.

WARD VILLAGE ®NAMED "MASTER PLANNED COMMUNITY OF THE YEAR" BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS. Honolulu's Urban Master Planned Community Was Also Named "Best Sales/Welcome Center" and "Best Landscape Design – Masterplan" at The Most Prestigious Industry Award Show.

For the second year running, Hong Kong has seized the top slot in our Luxury Index rankings. With two residential sales above $100 million and significant annual growth in luxury home sales, Hong Kong led in almost all categories and once again set new sales price records for the region.

The sale of a Hawaii estate on Kailua beach this week for $18.8 million points to a hot luxury market in Windward Oahu, where inventory of ultra high-end properties is shrinking.

Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties notes that the number of luxury condos and single-family homes priced at $1.5 million and above that are in escrow is 50 percent higher than a year ago, with 99 transactions awaiting closing, compared to 66 at this time last year.

Merriman’s Honolulu, the newest restaurant by Hawaii Regional Cuisine founder Peter Merriman, will open June 23.