Josh Ohl is the Senior Director of Market Analytics at CoStar and Homes.com for San Diego, the Central Coast, and the Sacramento region. His focus centers on the housing and commercial markets, alongside demographic and economic trends. He provides i...
Josh Ohl is the Senior Director of Market Analytics at CoStar and Homes.com for San Diego, the Central Coast, and the Sacramento region. His focus centers on the housing and commercial markets, alongside demographic and economic trends. He provides insights into home prices, inventory levels, rental conditions, and economic factors shaping the housing market. Josh has worked in the real estate research industry for 20 years and has authored 100s of reports, providing data-driven analysis. He frequently presents his research to trade groups, industry events, and university classrooms. His work has been featured in the San Diego Business Journal, San Diego Union-Tribune, Axios, Los Angeles Times, ABC, and NBC. Josh earned his bachelor’s degree in international politics from Penn State University.
The overall San Diego industrial market, which includes flex buildings, recorded its second straight quarter of positive net absorption, which measures the change in occupancy, during the first ...
Sacramento’s job market showed fresh signs of cooling in January, with the unemployment rate rising to 5.2% — above December’s revised level and approaching the statewide pace in California.
The Sacramento region’s population grew by 17,467 people between mid-2024 and mid-2025, according to the latest estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
San Diego’s unemployment rate increased from a revised 4.4% at the end of 2025 to 4.7% in January, according to the latest jobs report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was higher ...
New population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that San Diego’s population declined by 5,924 between July 2024 and July 2025 to around 3.282 million people. The last time that San ...
San Diego’s apartment rents rose a meager 0.1% month over month in March, a time of year when rent growth typically accelerates in conjunction with the spring leasing season.
In 2025, nearly $400 million in commercial properties traded in San Diego expressly for redevelopment into housing, according to CoStar research. The true figure is likely higher due to roughly two ...
San Diego’s medical office market sector ended 2025 on a strong note, with vacancy falling quarter over quarter to the lowest level of the year. Leasing volume during the fourth quarter climbed to ...
January’s turn of the calendar saw apartment asking rents in the Sacramento region rise for the first time since May. That momentum carried over to February, when asking rents rose 0.2% month over ...
Momentum from January did not carry over to February. Asking rents were flat month over month across San Diego, halting the progress from January’s 0.3% improvement after rents fell during the last ...
Commercial property sales increased year over year in San Diego for the second straight year, climbing to more than $7.4 billion invested across the region in 2025. That represented a $100 million ...
After 9,200 market-rate multifamily units opened across the Sacramento region between 2022 and 2024, developers have taken their collective foot off the accelerator. That supply wave delivered the ...
After rents fell month over month through the final seven months of 2025, they reversed course at the start of the year, eking out a marginal 0.1% increase in January. That was the same rate of ...
With the calendar flipping to 2026, San Diego’s apartment rents ticked up month over month in January for the first time since May. The 0.3% growth matched the increase from the past two Januarys, ...
The Sacramento region’s unemployment rate fell to 4.8% in the December jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, from a revised 5.1% in November. The year-ago estimate for Sacramento was ...
San Diego’s unemployment rate fell to a seven-month low of 4.4% in December, according to the latest jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was down from 4.6% in November, ...
San Diego’s retail market ended 2025 with its highest availability rate since 2021. At 5.2%, it was a tick below the 10-year average. Over 1.3 million square feet was added to the leasing market in ...
San Diego's industrial market recorded its first quarter of positive absorption in three years during the fourth quarter, driven by the occupancy of a 427,000-square-foot built-to-suit lab project in ...