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Seven agents · Three generations · Kailua

Team Wong Hawaiʻi is a seven-agent residential real estate team based in Kailua and working across Oʻahu. Three generations of one family sit at its center, backed by 37 years in the local market. The team handles homes, townhouses, and condominiums, from a first purchase to a family estate sale.

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The seven-member Team Wong Hawaiʻi in their Kailua office

About the team

A family team, three generations deep

The story starts with Ray Smith. He served 27 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, went into real estate after his service, and raised his daughter Corinda in the business. As a girl she typed his contracts. She went on to earn an accounting degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, got licensed, and spent more than 20 of her years in real estate working beside her father.

The team took shape around 2016. It became Team Wong Hawaiʻi around 2020, when Corinda's son Michael joined, built the logo, and began developing the brand and its digital presence. Her daughter Michelle Love came next, bringing experience from Amazon and from escrow. Three agents, Shaun Kanoho, Ciena Alagao, and Kainoa "KJ" Harrison, joined after the family core formed. Ray remains with the team today in a reduced role.

One client relationship shows how long these run. A couple bought their first house through Ray in 1986. Thirty-five years later, in 2021, they called him to sell that same house, and he handled it with Corinda.

What holds the group together is a shared approach to the work. Corinda describes her job as taking the stress off: systems, timelines, and communication that tell you what happens next. Clients are treated as an extension of the family, which is how a three-generation team tends to operate.

The agents

  • Corinda Wong

    Team Lead, Principal Broker · REALTOR®, CRS, GRI, SRES®

    Leads the team's listing work and its trust, estate, and downsizing practice. Her accounting training shapes how she handles 1031 exchanges and net-proceeds analysis.

  • Michael Wong

    Broker, Director of Digital Content and Technology Strategy · REALTOR®, PSA, RSPS

    A licensed broker who also builds the team's website, video, and market analysis. Covers Oʻahu new construction, including how developer sales offices and reservations work.

  • Michelle Love

    Client Care and Operations Director · REALTOR®

    Coordinates escrow, lenders, inspectors, and vendors from the first consultation through closing day, with weekly check-ins. Came to the team from escrow and from HR at Amazon.

  • Shaun Kanoho

    REALTOR®

    Born and raised in Kāneʻohe. Works with buyers and investors across Windward Oʻahu and has guided 27+ households through home purchases.

  • Ciena Alagao

    REALTOR®, New Construction Specialist · GREEN, MBA

    The team's new construction specialist, covering Kapolei, Hoʻopili, Koa Ridge, Ward Village, and Central Oʻahu. Also works with downsizing homeowners and Oʻahu buyers ready for their next move.

  • Kainoa "KJ" Harrison

    Team Agent · REALTOR®

    Born and raised in Kailua. Works with first-time buyers and with buyers who want a clear strategy and steady communication, across Hawaiʻi Kai, Kāhala, Diamond Head, Kailua, Kāneʻohe, and Mānoa.

  • Ray Smith

    Founding Generation · REALTOR®, SRES

    Where the family's real estate story begins. A retired Marine who built a real estate career after his service and focused it on senior and military clients.

Credentials and track record

What stands behind the team

The team is licensed with Hawaiʻi Modern Realty, brokerage license RB-21863. Ranking figures come from Honolulu Board of Realtors MLS data and from RealTrends Verified.

  • #1 in Kailua by transactions across more than two decades
  • RealTrends Verified 2025: 45 transaction sides, $45.25M in volume
  • 100+ Google reviews at a 5.0 rating
  • CRS, held by fewer than 4% of REALTORS® nationally
  • SRES® seniors designation, held across the team
  • GRI, PSA, RSPS, and GREEN designations
  • Hawaiʻi Modern Realty, a LeadingRE network member
  • Honolulu Board of REALTORS® and the National Association of REALTORS®

Contact Team Wong Hawaiʻi Call (808) 306-7242

What the team handles

Residential only: single-family homes, townhouses, and condominiums, both resale and new construction.

  • Selling a homeAbout 70% of the team's business is listings, covering pricing strategy, preparation and staging, negotiation, and a net-proceeds analysis before a seller commits.
  • Buying a homeMore than 60% of the team's buyers are first-time buyers. Heavy seller-side experience shapes how the team writes offers, and Hawaiʻi-specific questions like fee simple versus leasehold and AOAO rules get explained plainly.
  • Senior downsizingGuidance for kūpuna leaving a long-held home, paced around senior-living waitlists and family readiness. The team has worked with downsizing clients for as long as four years.
  • Trust, probate, and estate salesSpecialized seller representation for trustees, heirs, and families, often coordinated with attorneys and with heirs living on the mainland.
  • Investment and 1031 exchangeTiming rules, identification windows, and proceeds strategy, handled by an agent with formal accounting training who invests herself.
  • New constructionRepresentation on Oʻahu new-development purchases. The developer pays the brokerage fee either way, so independent representation costs a buyer nothing. Project-level detail lives on the team's separate resource site, newconstructionhawaii.com.

Where the team works

Kailua is the anchor. The core area is Windward Oʻahu, covering Kailua, Kāneʻohe, and Waimānalo, and the team's trust, estate, and downsizing work regularly takes it across the rest of the island, including recent transactions in Pearl City. The team tracks the market at the neighborhood level, which is also how it writes its Oʻahu market updates.

Read the Oʻahu market updates

Working with a team rather than one agent

Do I work with one agent or the whole team?

You work with one agent as your main point of contact. Michelle Love then coordinates the moving parts behind the scenes, handling escrow, lenders, inspectors, and vendors from the first consultation through closing day.

How do you decide which agent I work with?

It comes down to what you are doing and where. Ciena Alagao leads new construction across Kapolei, Hoʻopili, Koa Ridge, and Central Oʻahu. Shaun Kanoho works with buyers and investors on the Windward side. KJ Harrison focuses on first-time buyers. Corinda Wong takes listings, trust and estate sales, and 1031 exchanges.

Can I meet at the office, or do agents come to me?

Both. There is an office in Kailua clients can visit, and agents travel to clients across Oʻahu.

Talk to one of our agents

Tell us what you are trying to do and where, and we will point you to the right person on the team. Most conversations start with a phone call. The team works across Oʻahu from its Kailua office, and agents travel to clients anywhere on the island.

Contact Team Wong Hawaiʻi Call (808) 306-7242

Team Wong Hawaiʻi at Hawaiʻi Modern Realty, 46 Hoolai St, Suite D, Kailua, HI 96734. Brokerage license RB-21863.