Alana at Ho‘opili Pōhaku Estates

Alana is D.R. Horton’s multifamily neighborhood inside Ho‘opili Pōhaku Estates, the mauka portion of Ho‘opili off Farrington Highway. It brings 187 homes across four building types, with one-, two-, and three-bedroom layouts ranging from a 648-square-foot single-level flat up to a 1,497-square-foot three-story FLEX® home.

The unusual thing about Alana is how much variety D.R. Horton fit into one small neighborhood. Twenty-four floor plans across 187 homes means the average plan is built fewer than eight times. You will find single-story flats with no stairs at all, three-story townhome plans with a bedroom and full bath on each upper level, a handful of plans with a private one-car garage, and the FLEX® plan with a dedicated work space on the ground floor. Very little of that overlaps.

Alana at a Glance

Floor Plans

D.R. Horton groups Alana’s twenty-four plans into lettered series. Plans within a series share a footprint and differ mainly in orientation, entry position, and which building type they sit in. The table below collapses them into the nine distinct home types, which is the useful way to shop them.

Swipe the table sideways to see every column.

Reading the Plan Numbers

• The garage plans all end in 103. F103, G103, H103, and J103 are the only plans with a private one-car garage, and they are the plans buyers ask about first. If a garage is non-negotiable for you, that narrows 187 homes down considerably — and it is worth telling us early so we are watching the right releases.
• Single-story plans are the A, B, and C series. No interior stairs at all. For buyers with mobility considerations, young children, or a preference against three flights, this is a genuinely limited subset of the neighborhood.
• The D and E series are nearly the same size. Roughly 1,311 and 1,317 square feet. The difference is three bedrooms and 2.5 baths versus two bedrooms and 2.5 baths — the E plans trade a bedroom for a family room on the top floor. Which one is right depends entirely on whether you need the door.
• Two- and three-story versions exist within the same series. Several D and E plans come in both. Same square footage, different vertical arrangement. Ask which one a specific home is before you picture the layout.

The FLEX® Home

The J series is the plan people come to Alana for: three stories, roughly 1,497 square feet, two bedrooms, three and a half baths, a one-car garage, and a dedicated ground-floor work space separate from the living areas above.

The idea behind FLEX® is live-work — a home where a small business, studio, or practice can operate downstairs while the household lives upstairs. In a market where commercial rent in West O‘ahu is its own barrier to starting something, that is a meaningful proposition, and it is the reason Ho‘opili’s master plan includes this product type at all.

Inside the Homes

Feature lists change between phases. The finish schedule that governs your home is the one attached to your purchase contract, not the one on any website — ours included. Confirm every included item in writing at contract signing.

Pōhaku Estates & the Ho‘opili Master Plan

Pōhaku Estates sits on the mountain side of Farrington Highway with quick H-1 access, and it is where most of Ho‘opili’s current construction is concentrated. Ho‘opili overall is a roughly 1,600-acre master-planned community on the ‘Ewa plain, planned for around 11,750 homes across more than twenty neighborhoods, with schools, parks, recreation centers, urban agriculture, and commercial space phased in over the life of the plan.

The Rail, Accurately

This gets described inconsistently online, so here is where it actually stands. The Honouliuli — Ho‘opili station opened in June 2023 and has been in service since. Skyline now runs from East Kapolei through to Kalihi Transit Center, which means a Ho‘opili resident can reach Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and Daniel K. Inouye International Airport by rail today. The remaining segment into downtown Honolulu, Chinatown, and the civic center is under construction and not yet open, so the full one-seat ride to town is still ahead. For a buyer, the practical read is that the transit-oriented promise here is partly delivered and partly pending — which is more than most O‘ahu communities can say, and less than the marketing sometimes implies.

Pricing & How Releases Work

D.R. Horton sells Ho‘opili in phased releases rather than opening the whole neighborhood at once. A batch of homes is priced and made available, those homes go under contract, and the next batch releases weeks or months later — usually at a different price. Alana has run on that cadence since sales opened, with releases arriving roughly every four to eight weeks and pricing moving in both directions across them.

That is exactly why we do not post a price list here. Any number we published would be wrong by the next release, and a stale price is worse than no price when you are trying to plan. What we will do instead is pull the current release sheet for you — which homes are available, which plans, which buildings, current pricing, the estimated maintenance fee for that specific home, and what the next release is expected to include.

For rough orientation only: recent Alana releases have generally opened in the mid-$500,000s for the smallest one-bedroom plans and run into the $800,000s for the FLEX® plan. Treat that as a range to budget against, not a quote — the developer sets pricing, changes it without notice, and prices by individual home.

What the Process Looks Like

• Get prequalified first — D.R. Horton generally requires a prequalification letter before you can reserve a home, and their affiliated lender, DHI Mortgage, is the one most buyers use. You are not required to finance through the builder, but builder incentives and closing cost credits are typically tied to doing so. Run the math both ways rather than assuming the incentive wins.
• Understand the deposit — reserving a home requires an initial deposit with the reservation. Confirm the current amount, when it becomes non-refundable, and what happens to it if financing falls through.
• Ask about the maintenance fee, not just the price — Alana is a condominium, so there is an association fee on top of your mortgage and property tax. Get the figure for the specific home you are considering and ask what it covers.
• Read the project documents — the declaration, bylaws, house rules, and association budget govern pets, parking, rentals, exterior changes, and the FLEX® work space. Hawai‘i condominium law gives you defined rights to review and to cancel within a set window after delivery of the developer’s documents. Use that time.
• Confirm the rental rules before you underwrite a rental — minimum lease terms and any restrictions come from the project documents, not from the sales conversation.

If Alana Is Not the Fit

Ho‘opili releases several neighborhoods at once, at different price points and product types. If Alana’s size or configuration does not work for you, the answer is often next door rather than in another town. Currently selling alongside Alana:

• Uluwehi at Ho‘opili — condominiums, one to three bedrooms, currently the entry price point in the community.
• Kāpili at Pōhaku Estates — multifamily condominiums, two and three bedrooms, with garages and fenced private yards on many homes.
• ‘Ahakea at Ho‘opili — detached GenHomes, a smaller-footprint single-family product.
• Nanahea at Ho‘opili — traditional single-family homes, three to five bedrooms, at the top of the current Ho‘opili range.

Noho Papa, Mōlehu, and Ikena have closed out. Neighborhood availability changes constantly — ask us what is actually open before you drive out.

Interested in Alana?

Tell us which plans you are after — garage or no garage, single-level or three-story, FLEX® or standard — and we will send you the current release sheet and watch the next one for you. We can also walk you through how Alana compares to Kāpili, Uluwehi, and the wider West O‘ahu new construction market.

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