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.
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 ...
The past few quarters have done little to alter San Diego's office narrative. New leasing volume fell for the third consecutive year in 2025, and San Diego has been one of several major office ...
The November jobs report for Sacramento showed that the region’s unemployment rate fell from 5.2% in September, covered in the last jobs report, to 5% in November. according to the Bureau of Labor ...
San Diego’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.6% in November, according to the latest jobs report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was the lowest rate in San Diego since May, and came ...
Apartment rents headed south at the end of 2025 in Sacramento, recording month-over-month losses of 0.2%. That concluded a year that saw apartment rents retreat in each of the last seven months, the ...
While the pace of rent losses eased in December across San Diego, the narrative remained largely unchanged from the preceding six months: Rents fell again, marking the first time in more than 10 ...
After a two-month delay, the September jobs report for Sacramento was released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Sacramento region’s unemployment rate fell 20 basis points month over month ...
The long-awaited jobs report for September was released for San Diego. The report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the San Diego region’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.9% during ...