Top left, top right and 2nd from top: Just sold by Tommy Kim—1388
Ala Moana Blvd, Apt #5804, Honolulu ($10,000,000), part of the
ultra-luxury Park Lane development at Ala Moana Center.
3rd and 4th from top: Newly listed by Tommy Kim—2914 Booth
Road #16 Honolulu ($2,750,000); A sunny, nature-lover's retreat
with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (2,152 square feet) located on a
lush, 13,094 square foot lot in a private, eco-friendly development.
Kim. "It's quite special."
One day while running errands in Kailua
Town, he ran into his next career chapter
via a dynamic stranger who struck up a
conversation. „is chance meeting turned
into a friendship and a career. „e man, an
uber-successful entrepreneur from the main-
land insisted that Kim should look into real
estate. He did, quickly leveraging a broad
network that, after less than a decade in real
estate, has landed him among the top agents
in Hawaii. "I was very lucky from the moment
I got into it," Kim says of real estate. "Relation-
ships have always been the key, and I've been
very blessed with a really great network, here
in Hawaii and in golf. Golf makes this world
very, very small."
So do the clients who refer their friends and
family to Kim when they want to buy or sell a
property in Hawaii. Hence, his business is run
almost strictly by referrals. "I do a very poor
job of self-promotion," he admits with a laugh.
"To me it's more fun when I see how happy
clients are." One of Kim's favorite transactions
was probably among his smallest in terms of
dollar amounts, but flexing his athlete's hope-
against-hope tenacity and coming out on top,
made it one he relishes. "All the odds were
stacked against us," he recalls. "„ere was so
much riding on it for the client, but somehow
I pulled this off and it was the most rewarding
deal."
Then there's the entrepreneur who f irst
emerged in elementary school. "Growing
up, everyday I saw a Häagen-Dazs slogan,
Dedicated to Perfection," the agent recounts.
"It was the gold standard of ice cream, and
my dad and my uncles were my mentors who
instilled in me from a very young age this
sense of excellent service." Finally—there's
the friendly, non-grasping and open person-
ality that landed Kim in golf and real estate,
and is native to who he's always been. "I don't
pick and choose who that goes to," he says of
his nature. "I treat everyone the same, and I
feel we can all move up together."
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Relationships have always been the key, and I've been very blessed with a really
great network, here in Hawaii and in golf. Golf makes this world very, very small.
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