Religious institutions in Hawaiʻi have collectively made nearly $200 million in just four real estate deals so far this year. That’s expanded a wide footprint of church-owned real estate throughout the islands.
The biggest real estate transaction by a Hawaiʻi religious institution in 2025 was at the start of the year. That’s when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu sold the land beneath Kāhala Nui to the senior living facility itself for $90 million.
Meanwhile, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paid a total of $80 million for two separate land purchases on Maui and Oʻahu. Grace Bible Church Pearlside rounded out the year with its purchase of the land beneath its church in ʻAiea for about $26 million…