How much does it cost to build a house in Honolulu? The usual new home job filed with Honolulu is $370,000, from 1,572 priced permits (July 2022 through June 2025); the middle half of firms file between $421,000 and $600,000. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill.
The usual new home job filed with Honolulu is $370,000, from 1,572 priced permits, July 2022 through June 2025. The middle half of firms usually file between $421,000 and $600,000. Half of jobs were filed for less, half for more. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. A new home permit here usually takes 295 days from issue to final inspection. How long permits take →
Approximately, from each firm's own spread: every firm's range of filed values, weighted by its 1,572 priced permits across 197 firms, pooled into one. Half of Honolulu new home permits were filed between $239,000 and $520,000.
| Percentile | Filed value | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | $172,000 | 1 in 10 permits filed below |
| 25th | $239,000 | 1 in 4 filed below |
| 50th | $375,000 | the middle permit |
| 75th | $520,000 | 1 in 4 filed above |
| 90th | $754,000 | 1 in 10 filed above |
Firms split into thirds by the usual value of the homes they work on, with each third's usual filed value weighted by permits. Home values: 2022 assessed values for Honolulu parcels.
| Firms working on | Usual home value | Usual filed value | Firms | Permits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower third | under $918,700 | $497,500 | 63 | 147 |
| Middle third | $918,700–$1,268,500 | $450,000 | 63 | 525 |
| Upper third | $1,272,500 and up | $373,532 | 63 | 380 |
Top 10 by permits in the last 12 months on file (Jul 2024–Jun 2025). Usual is each firm's middle filed value; middle half is the range its middle half of jobs were filed in. Busy is not the same as careful: pick what you value to build a list.
| Firm | Permits | Last 12 mo | Usual | Middle half | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castle & Cooke Homes Hi, Inc | 266 | 134 | $373,532 | $343,000–$456,000 | 100.0% |
| Gentry Builders LLC | 157 | 42 | $393,200 | $372,360–$400,620 | 96.6% |
| Vertical Construction | 503 | 22 | $208,656 | $169,050–$249,642 | 92.3% |
| S Tanaka Construction LLC | 42 | 16 | $450,000 | $351,250–$579,750 | 67.1% |
| FU Long Construction Inc | 35 | 16 | $645,000 | $500,000–$852,500 | 66.9% |
| Atlas Construction Inc | 21 | 13 | $421,000 | $312,000–$500,000 | 6 of 8 |
| XY Construction Inc | 18 | 12 | $522,500 | $462,500–$650,000 | 3 of 6 |
| Amano Construction Inc | 24 | 11 | $590,000 | $471,250–$735,000 | 57.0% |
| Homeworks Construction, Inc | 23 | 11 | $560,000 | $400,000–$775,000 | 73.3% |
| Pro Build Hawaii Construction | 13 | 8 | $550,000 | $500,000–$745,000 | 0 of 5 |
Line your quote up against the file. In Honolulu, 1 in 10 new home filed values sit under $172,000, the middle half between $239,000 and $520,000, and 1 in 10 over $754,000.
Honolulu files the fewest new home permits in September (52 against an average month of 100) and the most in March (174). If you can choose, ask for quotes in a quiet month. We have no prices by month, so this is about crews' schedules, not a discount. When each trade is busiest in Honolulu →
Source: City & County of Honolulu building permits (DPP). The window is July 2022 through June 2025; a permit filed after that isn't here yet.
Usual is the middle permit: half were filed for less, half for more. Only permits with a filed value count; a value of $0 or none is left out.
The spread is approximate: we keep seven points of each firm's own range of filed values, not every permit, and pool them.
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