Hale ʻO Ka La, a reimagined Mauna Kea villa on the Kohala Coast, is hitting the market with a $17.5 million price tag and the attitude of a private resort. The 5,358-square-foot kauhale-style compound has five bedrooms, six baths and sits on roughly 0.86 acres inside the gated Mauna Kea Fairways North enclave, where listings do not exactly come in bunches. The property is being pitched as a mini-resort, with sweeping ocean views and outdoor amenities that could give a boutique hotel a run for its money.
Rare Mauna Kea listing
The home is listed for $17.5 million by Hawai‘i Life agents Jake Chancer and Neal Norman, according to the Hawai‘i Life listing. Mauna Kea Fairways North includes just 32 custom homesites and is considered one of the resort’s lowest-density residential neighborhoods, a detail brokers like to highlight when they talk about privacy and exclusivity for owners.
Major renovation by local firms
Originally designed in 1992, the property did not stay stuck in the 90s. It underwent a top-to-bottom rework in 2025, an $8 million renovation led by Diane Bobek Designs with Taleah Smith Design and Pono Hana Builders, according to the design team and promotional materials. Designers say they preserved key architectural elements but lightened finishes, refreshed interiors and reworked the indoor and outdoor flow to play up the home’s kauhale layout, per Diane Bobek Designs and the property's press materials.
Resort-style features
A profile of the listing highlights the resort-style playground outside: a saltwater pool with a waterslide, a swim-up palapa bar and a waterfall grotto spa with an integrated jacuzzi, all positioned to capture broad sunset and coastline views, per Aloha State Daily. The compound is laid out as a series of interconnected pavilions beneath a continuous roofline, with open-air breezeways standing in for traditional hallways to pull ocean air and natural light through the home.
Privacy and resort access
The listing notes that the property is buffered by protected land with no planned development in front and that 355 acres to the north have been preserved by the Queen Emma Land Trust, a combination that brokers say delivers a rare sense of lasting privacy, according to Hawai‘i Life. Owners can also join the Mauna Kea Resort Club, which offers access to the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and the Westin Hapuna Beach Resort for golf, tennis, dining and spa facilities, perks that agents say are central to the property’s draw.
“Fairways North is one of the premier residential enclaves within Mauna Kea Resort,” Chancer told Aloha State Daily in an emailed response, adding that the mix of location, scale and the recent renovation makes the home “truly unique” within the resort. The listing team also points out that turnkey, no-expense-spared offerings in this neighborhood rarely hit the open market.
The timing of the sale comes as the Kohala Coast is seeing a fresh wave of resort investment, with the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel wrapping up roughly a $180 million renovation earlier this year, a makeover that brokers say can bolster buyer interest in nearby private homes with hotel-caliber services within easy reach, per Travel Weekly. For buyers chasing both seclusion and immediate access to resort amenities, Hale ʻO Ka La is being positioned as a rare shot at having it both ways.
