Biography
Jan Freitag is national director, hospitality analytics, for CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP), the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces.
In his role, Freitag comments on the trends that shape the U.S. hotel industry. He is a sought-after public speaker and is frequently quoted in trade publications and general news media such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg and CNBC. He is a trusted source of timely insights to hotel investors, owners and operators.
Prior to moving to CoStar, he spent almost 20 years with STR, most recently as senior vice president, lodging insights. In the 1990s, Freitag was director of content integrity at hotelreports.com in upstate New York and a hospitality consultant with EY in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds a bachelor’s degree, with distinction, from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, and received his executive MBA, with honors, from Vanderbilt University.
Freitag is a member of the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Investment Roundtable and the Urban Land Institute’s Hotel Development Council.
He resides with his wife and their two sons in Nashville, Tennessee.