This page displays all Oahu real estate for sale - single-family homes and condos. It is what we refer to as Oahu's MLS listings.
If you are only interested in condos or homes, you can visit our
Oahu condos for sale page or our
Oahu homes for sale page. If you are interested in Honolulu city only, then you can visit our
Honolulu condos for sale page or our
Honolulu homes for sale page.
In the following we will briefly describe what the MLS is all about.
What is the MLS? The MLS, short for Multiple Listing Service, is a subscriber service for real estate agents that allow agents to share their property listings online in one centralized system. There are hundreds of regional MLS across the US and 1 of these MLS is the Oahu MLS, which we display here on Hawaii Living’s website.
The MLS is centered around a principal of real estate agents helping sell each other’s inventory. A listing agent will compensate a cooperating agent - the agent who brings a Buyer - for helping facilitate a sale.
Buyer & Seller Benefits The MLS system has numerous benefits, the greatest being it allows a Buyer to work with just 1 agent who, as a member of an MLS, will has access to all MLS listings. As an example, an agent working independently, who is a member of the Oahu MLS will have access to the same Oahu MLS listings as an agent working at a real estate agency with hundreds of agents.
The Oahu MLS allows a Seller to get significant exposure online, by having their property displayed on hundreds of real estate websites, including large nationwide websites with many millions of monthly website visitors.
MLS History More than 100 years ago real estate agents would frequently gather at their local real estate associations presenting properties they were looking to sell, agreeing to compensate the broker who helped sell their properties. This system was accepted by the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges in the early 1900’s, which became the National Association of Realtors in year 1972. Over the years, the way in which real estate agents share property listings, have evolved into today’s online MLS system, typically readily available for consumers to access online.
Structure of Oahu MLS Data HBR, Honolulu Board of Realtors, owns HiCentral MLS - the entity supplying Oahu’s MLS data. HBR has divided the Oahu MLS into 12 regions and several neighborhoods within each of these 12 regions. Here on Hawaii Living’s website we have further lumped several neighborhoods together to enhance the user experience. For instance, HBR has more than 10 Kapolei neighborhoods - we have lumped all those Kapolei neighborhoods together as 1, HBR has 4 separate Manoa neighborhoods - we have lumped all 4 Manoa neighborhoods together as 1. Also, we have also created “Honolulu” which is a combination of all properties in the 3 regions in Honolulu - Metro, Diamond Head and Hawaii Kai - allowing users to see all Honolulu MLS listings on one page.
