Priced right, staged, and properly marketed.
Houses on Oʻahu are still selling at 100% of original asking in a median of seventeen days. But new listings were up 14.5% in August, so you have more competition than you did a year ago. Pricing and presentation are doing real work right now.
Complimentary staging, and I mean complimentary
Staging is included in my listing service. Not an add-on, not a credit at closing, not something I bring up after you have signed. It is part of how I work because it is the single highest-return thing we can do to a house before photos.
Professional photography and video on every listing, regardless of price point. A $600,000 condo gets the same camera as a Kahala house. Your buyer is looking at it on a phone and deciding in four seconds whether to keep scrolling.
Pricing from comps
Built from HiCentral MLS sold data on your actual street, not an automated website estimate that has never seen your lanai.
Staging, included
Furniture, styling, and the honest conversation about what to put in storage.
Photo and video
Professional stills, walkthrough video, and drone where the property earns it.
Real reach
MLS, the major portals, my agent network on island, and social where my audience actually is.
From first walkthrough to closing
Walkthrough and honest read
I come see it. I tell you what buyers will love, what will give them pause, and what is worth fixing versus what to price for. Some agents tell you what you want to hear to win the listing. I would rather you trust me in week six.
A real comparative market analysis
Sold comps from HiCentral, adjusted for your lot, view, condition and permits. Plus what is currently active, because that is who you are competing against, and what expired, because that tells you where the ceiling is.
Prep and staging
My stager, my photographer, my contractors for the small things. I project-manage it so you are not chasing anyone.
Go to market properly
Live on a schedule that maximizes first-weekend traffic, with the full marketing package ready on day one. Nothing goes live half-finished.
Offers and negotiation
I work every offer, including the terms that are not price. Financing type, contingency periods, closing date, and who pays for what. On a tight timeline those are often worth more than another ten thousand.
Escrow to close
Inspection responses, appraisal, lender conditions, and the hundred small things. You hear from me before you have to ask.
Your AOAO package is now part of the sale
With 6.9 months of condo supply and master policy premiums up 300% to 600% across the island, buyers and their lenders are scrutinizing associations the way they used to scrutinize the unit. If your building’s hurricane coverage is short, conventional financing gets hard and your buyer pool shrinks to cash.
So we get ahead of it. Budget, reserve study, minutes, master policy declarations, pending assessments, all assembled and ready before we list. Most competing listings will not have done this. It is a genuine advantage.
6.9 months
Condo inventory on Oʻahu, August 2026. Six months is the line between a seller’s and a buyer’s market.
2,512 condos
What you are competing with. Presentation and a clean association package are the differentiators.
What is your home actually worth?
Not a website estimate. I pull the sold comps on your street from HiCentral, adjust for your lot, view, condition and permits, and walk you through how I got there. It is free, it takes me about a day, and there is no expectation that you list.
An automated estimate does not know you redid the kitchen, or that the house two doors down had a view yours does not. That is the difference between a number and a valuation.
“The right time to buy is when you can. I will show you the way.”
Katie Nickens
Get your home valuation
Tell me about the property and pick a time that works. I’ll have your comps ready for the call.
Mahalo!
I’ll pull the sold comps for your address and confirm your call by text within the hour. If it’s urgent, call or text (808) 457-2418.
A hui hou!