Mark H. Young is publicly listed as a Hawaiʻi real-estate professional associated with True Real Estate Hawaiʻi.
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https://truerealestatehawaii.com/agent/mark-young/
https://www.hicentral.com/directory/member/40803/Mark-H-Young/%252Fdirectory%252Foffice%252F8676%253Furl%253D%2525252Fdirectory%2525252Foffices%2525253FcompanyName%2525253Da%25252526specialty%2525253D%25252526page%2525253D54%2526page%253D1
https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2021/10/15/true-real-estate-carves-out-market-share.html
https://www.honolulumagazine.com/listings/2022-hawaii-real-estate-pro-finder/mark-h-young-3/
https://www.honolulumagazine.com/listings/2018-hawaii-real-estate-pro-finder/mark-young/
https://truerealestatehawaii.com/agents/
https://www.homes.com/real-estate-agents/mark-young/wv0wsdk/
https://www.facebook.com/RealProducersMagazine/photos/congratulations-to-honolulu-real-producers-top-producer-mark-youngmark-young-kno/1046713439083834/
2017 – Present. Pacific Business News reported the founding of the independent Hawaiʻi brokerage at 33. The current Honolulu Board of REALTORS® directory lists Mark with True Real Estate Hawaiʻi; direct DCCA license class and entity/officer records remain a confirmation gate.
Prior experience. Built an advisory practice grounded in market analysis, detailed client service, and negotiation. Public listing archives associate Mark with the firm.
Earlier career. Analyzed commercial and residential property using a finance-based appraisal framework.
A view can win the showing. It cannot rescue the wrong basis. Before letting the horizon set the price, put the unphotogenic facts back into the decision: shoreline condition, flood exposure, deferred maintenance, renovation history, insurance, and the cost of being wrong. Beauty belongs in the analysis. It should never be allowed to replace it. Five questions I would answer before writing an offer on an Oʻahu waterfront home.
The most valuable part of a negotiation may happen before anyone writes a number. It happens when preparation separates preference from necessity: what our client must protect, what the other side may need, which risks deserve a price, and which terms could create room that money alone cannot. Preparation does more than produce confidence. It produces options. Options are where leverage begins.
Numbers are most useful when their limits are visible. As of September 2, 2026, Homes.com displayed a five-year snapshot of 198 closed sales and $205.3 million in value across a broad range of Oʻahu properties. That is a platform-derived, changing view—not an audited lifetime total. The more durable story is not a leaderboard. It is range: buyer and seller work, condos and single-family homes, and decisions spanning very different places, prices, and forms of risk. Proof should clarify judgment. It should never ask a reader to forget where the number came from.
Oʻahu households coordinating a sale and purchase Timing, carrying cost, contingencies, and community fit make one move feel like five interlocking decisions. Show the sequencing: the decision tree, leverage points, preventable risks, and the human priority beneath each term. Qualified seller and buyer conversations built on judgment rather than listing spectacle.
Owners deciding whether to sell, renovate, wait, or rent Generic valuations hide preparation cost, condition, basis, and the consequences of getting the sequence wrong. Publish appraisal-informed seller memos that explain which facts change value—and which improvements merely photograph well. Valuation consultations and listings from owners already aligned with Mark’s analytical approach.
Local and returning investors evaluating risk-adjusted opportunity The view and projected upside can eclipse insurance, capex, permitting, condition, and a defensible entry basis. Turn anonymized deal anatomy into repeatable diligence education: what the listing omits, what the downside reveals, and what would change the answer. Investment conversations in which rigor is the product—not a decorative layer added after selection.
Attorneys, lenders, wealth advisors, and former clients A broad ‘top realtor’ identity does not tell a referrer which complicated situations Mark is best equipped to handle. Give the network concise referral triggers supported by case-pattern proof and a recognizable decision philosophy. More precise introductions and fewer low-fit inquiries.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-wolff-4862303b
https://www.midweek.com/business-leaders-move-hawaii-92414/
https://www.kaimukihawaii.com/news/201603/8545.html
https://www.kaimukihawaii.com/news/201605/8861.html
https://www.honolulu.gov/events/event/hawaii-kai-nb-regular-meeting-2025-09-30-19226/
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/06/07/drugs-noise-prompt-calls-nighttime-closure-east-oahu-park/
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/10/26/closure-oahus-only-public-shooting-range-draws-questions-about-lead-hazards/
https://hnldoc.ehawaii.gov/hnldoc/document-download?id=19171
https://www.honolulu.gov/events/event/hawaii-kai-nb-regular-meeting-2025-11-25-19232/
https://www.honolulu.gov/events/event/hawaii-kai-nb-regular-meeting-2026-08-25-30513/
Current role indexed publicly. Helping residential real-estate investors evaluate transitions into commercial property strategies. Employer and exact dates await first-party confirmation.
By Oct 2022 – Aug 2026 confirmed. Participating in public deliberation on infrastructure, environmental health, safety, land use, transportation, schools, wildlife, public space, and neighborhood quality of life.
2016. Supported neighborhood-board proceedings, public records, and community-facing civic administration across Oʻahu.
Jun 2014 – Dec 2016. Designed custom residential solar systems and helped homeowners evaluate financing and government incentives.
2010 – 2013 · subject confirmation required. Public professional-profile indexing describes early work connecting a water-technology offering with customers and partner networks; employer records and exact chronology were not independently recovered.
In Hawaiʻi, a property decision is also an infrastructure decision. Energy, water, transportation, insurance, permitting, and community legitimacy are often treated as context surrounding the asset. Owners experience them differently: as cost, delay, resilience, access, and risk. The model becomes more honest when the place is put back inside it.
Residential investors sometimes ask when they are ‘ready’ for commercial real estate. Readiness is not a larger down payment or a more impressive asset. It is the willingness to learn which risks have changed. Leases, tenant quality, debt structure, capital work, and diligence alter the vocabulary. The durable questions remain: Where does the cash flow come from? What breaks it? Who carries the downside? Why should this asset exist here? Change the asset. Change the questions before you change the allocation.
A contaminant does not honor the boundary drawn around the activity that produced it. When questions emerged about lead at the Koko Head Shooting Complex, the consequential issue was not only what remained inside the range. It was what wind and rain might carry toward the ocean—and whether the review was asking the full question. Environmental diligence begins by following the pathway, not defending the parcel line.
Good public process does not require every participant to be the expert. It requires someone to recognize when the room needs one. After tropicbird deaths near the Kaiwi Coast raised questions about protective measures, the useful next move was not another confident opinion. It was a connection to a seabird scientist who could brief the board. Knowing whom to bring into the conversation is its own form of systems judgment.
Residential investors evaluating commercial property Familiar confidence collides with a different vocabulary of leases, tenants, debt, diligence, and operating risk. Teach the transition as a sequence of changed questions rather than a status upgrade or asset-class sales pitch. Better-prepared advisory conversations with investors who understand the risks they are choosing.
Small property and business owners making occupancy and capital decisions Permitting, energy, infrastructure, and policy appear outside the spreadsheet until they alter cost, timing, or feasibility. Translate a public-system change into the private decision it modifies, with the primary record attached. Trust from owners who need context before they need a transaction.
Neighborhood participants, public servants, and place-based organizations Public debate often collapses a real tradeoff into two performative positions. Model balanced, source-visible analysis that names safety, access, cost, implementation, and who carries each consequence. A credible public voice whose usefulness does not depend on winning every argument.
Property, infrastructure, and renewable-energy professionals Operating systems are analyzed in silos even though owners experience them as one asset. Connect energy design, incentives, resilience, operating cost, and property value through visual system maps. Cross-sector advisory and collaboration opportunities grounded in Sam’s documented experience.