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 and he has been quoted in the San Diego Business Journal, San Diego Union-Tribune, Axios, and Los Angeles Times and GlobeSt, while being interviewed by ABC and NBC News. Josh earned his bachelor’s degree in international politics from Penn State University.
San Diego’s unemployment rate rose month over month in June for the first time since January. According to the latest jobs report released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, the San Diego ...
Sacramento’s office market can be characterized as stable, albeit with subdued demand: Leasing activity has settled at levels well below pre-pandemic norms, with new leasing volume over 30% below the ...
The second quarter did little to change the office narrative in San Diego. Vacancy has risen to its highest level in nearly 15 years at 12.4%, and properties targeted for conversion, particularly ...
Hiring in construction, government and hospitality helped push Sacramento’s unemployment rate down to a two-year low in May, even as office-using industries continued to shed jobs.
San Diego’s unemployment rate fell below 4% in May for the first time in two years, according to the latest jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At 3.9%, it was the lowest local ...
Asking rents were on the rise across San Diego’s market-rate apartment inventory in June. Rents edged up 0.2% month over month to an average of $2,587 per month.
Apartment rents were flat month over month in May across the Sacramento region, marking the first time in three years that rents did not increase in the month during the prime spring leasing season.
San Diego’s apartment asking rents have been on the rise since the start of the year, with month-over-month rent growth measuring 0.4% in May. That was the strongest monthly rent growth in two years ...
San Diego’s unemployment rate fell to 4.1% in April. That was down from a revised 4.3% in March and below last April’s unemployment rate of 4.2%. California’s statewide rate in April was 5%.
The Sacramento region’s unemployment rate fell to 4.7% in March from a revised 5% in February, according to the latest jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the lowest ...
San Diego’s unemployment rate fell to 4.3% in March, according to the latest jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was down from 4.5% in February and level with the year-ago ...
After enduring seven straight months of rent losses to end 2025, apartment asking rents have altered course to increase for four consecutive months on a month-over-month basis.
Sacramento’s unemployment rate fell to 5% in February, from revised 5.2% in January, according to the jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
San Diego’s apartment asking rents rose in April, marking the fourth consecutive month-over-month asking rent growth across the region. The 0.1% increase in April was the same as in February and ...
San Diego’s unemployment rate fell to 4.5% in February, from a revised 4.7% in January, according to the latest jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. February’s rate was just above ...
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.