I'm Chris Kerstner. I run NextGen Coastal Property Management. This site publishes what our 300+ unit OC and LA portfolio actually sees every month, cross-checked against Census ACS, HUD Fair Market Rent, and BLS regional CPI.
I got tired of sending owners to Zillow's Rent Zestimate and watching them either over- or under-shoot by $300 a month. Listing-site averages are fine for headline numbers. They don't tell you the cap rate spread between Class A and Class C in Anaheim, what the actual days-to-lease in Newport looks like in February, or what share of households in a given city even rent. OC Rental Data is the version of that information I wished existed when I was underwriting my first OC fourplex.
Founder of NGC. We manage roughly 300 doors across Orange County and LA County — coastal single-families in Newport Beach on one end, Class B/C apartment buildings in Santa Ana and Anaheim on the other. I've been doing this for about a decade. Before that, I made the same pricing mistakes I now write pages about. Most of the specific numbers on this site come from leases I or someone on my team personally signed.
Every figure is either pulled from a named federal source (Census ACS, HUD FMR, BLS CPI, OCAR sales data) or labeled as a portfolio observation or directional estimate. If a number is a portfolio read, the page says so. If it's a federal pull, the page names the dataset. There's no third bucket.
Federal data. US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates for Orange County. HUD Fair Market Rent for the LA-Long Beach-Anaheim MSA. BLS regional Consumer Price Index releases.
Our portfolio. 300+ doors across OC and LA County. That gives us monthly ground truth on rent actually achieved, days-to-lease, who's applying, who's renewing, and which submarkets are softening before the public data picks it up. Portfolio data is always normalized and aggregated — no published statistic on this site can be reverse-engineered to a specific unit or tenant.
Refresh cadence. Page-level data gets reviewed monthly. Forecast-year content (2026 right now) gets a deeper look every quarter. Every page carries a "Last updated" date that also lives in the page's dateModified schema.
No paid placements that move a published number. Ever. We don't publish address-level rent in any form that could identify a tenant. And I won't claim a 300-door portfolio is statistically representative of all OC rentals — it isn't. It's a directional read laid over the authoritative public data, not a replacement for it.
Tell me. If a figure on this site is off, or you need a custom pull for a specific OC submarket, send a note.
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