• November 16, 2024

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Go Store It Fund

14 Nov, 2024

Madison Capital Group Launches GSI Opportunity Fund

Madison Capital Group, a leading real estate investment and development firm, has launched the Go...

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Smartstop Self Storage

14 Nov, 2024

SmartStop Self Storage REIT Reports Q3 2024 Results

SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. has announced its overall results for the quarter ended September...

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Self-storage election results

13 Nov, 2024

What Does The Republican Victory Mean For The Self-Storage Industry?

Earlier this year, there were a lot of “what-ifs” when Biden faced off against former rival...

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reit report q3 2024

1 Nov, 2024

REIT Q3 2024 Recaps: CEO Statements & Highlights

CubeSmart, Extra Space Storage, National Storage Affiliates Trust, and Public Storage have all...

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self storage resiliency

18 Sep, 2024

Distressed Rates Are Up – But Not For Self-Storage

Schadenfreude: It’s a German word combining “harm” and “joy” that describes the satisfaction some...

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Spartan Inc 5000

29 Aug, 2024

Spartan Investment Group Honored By Inc. 5000 For Fifth Consecutive Year

Spartan Investment Group, a Colorado-based privately held real estate investment firm specializing...

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PropRise

21 Aug, 2024

PropRise Launches AI-Powered Deal Sourcing Self-Storage Investing Platform

PropRise, an AI-driven real estate technology company, has announced the launch of its...

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Storage Asset Management (SAM)

16 Aug, 2024

SAM Announces Second Quarter 2024 Results

Storage Asset Management (SAM), the largest privately owned third-party self-storage property...

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Absolute Storage Management

13 Aug, 2024

Absolute Storage Management Releases Q2 2024 Results

Absolute Storage Management (Absolute), a third-party management company for self-storage...

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reiut report

6 Aug, 2024

[UPDATED] REIT Q2 2024 Results: CEO Statements, Highlights & Webcasts

Story has been updated [Aug 6, 2024] to include NSA reporting. CubeSmart, Extra Space Storage,...

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self storage interest rates

2 Aug, 2024

The Interest Rate Dilemma: Making Sense of Uncertainty

Interest rates are up, it’s harder to get a loan, it’s harder to make loan payments, business is...

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self storage sales checklist

30 Jul, 2024

Smooth Selling: A Presale Checklist For Easier Transactions

When considering selling your storage site, there are checklists that need to be completed to...

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storagemart

27 Jul, 2024

StorageMart Offers New Self-Storage Bridge Lending Program

StorageMart, a leading provider of self-storage solutions in the United States, the United Kingdom,...

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self-storage portfolio

24 Jul, 2024

JLL Secures $75M Loan For Six Facility Portfolio In Florida

JLL Capital Markets, a full-service global provider of capital solutions for real estate investors...

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Self Storage Investing

18 Jul, 2024

TPG Angelo Gordon To Provide Exclusive Growth Capital For Andover Storage Lending

After executing over $100 million of commitments over the last six months, TPG Angelo Gordon, a...

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Safstor investment fund

10 Jul, 2024

SAFStor Launches Investment Fund To Develop Three Facilities

SAFStor, a national self-storage developer founded in 2017, has launched its latest Regulation D...

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self-storage ownership

1 Jul, 2024

The Epic Shift In Ownership: How It Happened & What It Means

Since its birth in the United States more than 60 years ago, the self-storage sector has evolved to...

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Yard Self Storage

24 Jun, 2024

Premcor Directors Set Sights On Self-Storage Market

Directors of Premcor Estates, a privately owned commercial property development company, have begun...

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nexpoint press release

17 Jun, 2024

NexPoint Launches Self-Storage DST Offering

NexPoint, a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm, recently announced the launch of...

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NSA Storage Pros

5 Jun, 2024

National Storage Affiliates Internalization: PRO Perspectives

National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), the Colorado-headquartered REIT that owns, operates, and...

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Brian Cohen Andover

24 May, 2024

Andover Properties Announces Andover Storage Lending

Andover Properties, an investment firm that owns, operates, and develops commercial property...

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Chicago Title National Self Storage Group

15 May, 2024

Chicago Title Launches National Self-Storage Group, New Hire

Chicago Title National Commercial Services California, a member of the Fidelity National Financial...

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Madison Capital Self Storage

3 May, 2024

Madison Capital Group Launches Madison Commercial

Real estate investment company Madison Capital Group, which focuses on the self-storage industry...

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self storage investing

29 Apr, 2024

4 Common Methods For Investing In Self-Storage

The self-storage industry offers an exceptional opportunity for investors looking for stable and...

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self storage investing

20 Mar, 2024

The Capital Stack: The Building Blocks of Self-Storage Investing

Navigating the world of self-storage investing can be an adventure. To find success, you need to...

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smartstop self storage

19 Mar, 2024

SmartStop REIT Releases Q4 2023 Earnings Report

SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc., a self-managed and fully-integrated self storage company, has...

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Storage Trader

19 Mar, 2024

StorageTrader Launches Self-Storage Investment Platform

StorageTrader, the first fintech marketplace designed exclusively for the self-storage industry,...

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Forum Asset Management

17 Jan, 2024

Forum Asset Management and Make Space Announced Joint Venture

Forum Asset Management ("Forum") and Make Space Inc. ("Make Space") have announced their strategic...

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2 Aug, 2023

Self Storage: What the Wall Street Journal Got Wrong

In 2021, self storage was the darling of the Wall Street Journal, with the paper declaring the...

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gantry

11 May, 2023

Gantry's $40M Acquisition Financing

Softening street rates, increased expenses, capital markets challenges, and an uncertain economy...

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21 Mar, 2023

Valuation for development, sales and acquisitions

What’s it worth? That’s the ultimate question when it comes to determining valuation for...

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16 Feb, 2023

Life Storage Rejects Public Storage Proposal | Mini-Storage Messenger

BUFFALO, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Life Storage, Inc. (NYSE:LSI), a leading national owner and...

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Prime Group

31 Jan, 2023

Prime Group Closes Self-Storage Fund at Record $2.5B

Prime Group Holdings, LLC, a private equity real estate firm based in Saratoga Springs, NY, has...

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17 Jan, 2023

A Cloudy Forecast: Will A Volatile Interest Rate Climate Dampen Deals In 2023?

Predicting the movement of interest rates is like blowing on the dice before you toss them to the...

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20 Sep, 2022

Volumize Your Value: Fees As Alternative Revenue Streams

Admin fees, insurance, merchandise, late fees, other fees, charges, and add-on services—all of...

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16 Aug, 2022

Rally Support: Self-Storage Can Be The Best Use For Land

The way we live is continuously evolving. From the once sought out luxury mansions to the ongoing...

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28 Oct, 2021

Cap Rate Compression Continues - Newmark Investors Survey Q3 2021

The self-storage asset class is now generally considered CORE or CORE+ commercial real estate,...

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15 Sep, 2020

Strategy Shift: Structuring Transactions In The COVID Era

2020 has ushered in a dramatically different landscape for not only the self-storage industry but...

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1 Oct, 2018

Stop – Do Not Pass Go Without a Feasibility Study | MSM

In the game of Monopoly, players move their piece around the board in an attempt to purchase as...

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1 Aug, 2018

The Valuation Question:

Cash Flow Or Cap Rates In the commercial real estate world, most investors apply value to a...

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1 May, 2018

The Interest Rate Factor

Where Are Values Headed? By Dale C. Eisenman, CCIM, and Michael Morrison After a period of high...

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1 Apr, 2018

Q4 2017

Self-Storage Investor Survey By Kate Spencer and Greg Wells The survey data was collected as part...

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1 Mar, 2018

Self-Storage & Wall Street

Cash Is Flowing! The self-storage industry presented two faces throughout 2017. On one side,...

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1 Feb, 2018

Influx Of Capital

A New Class Of Investors Since the Great Recession, the self-storage sector has grown by leaps...

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2 Jan, 2018

Decelerating Performance

2018 To Bring Sustainable Growth Rates And Realistic Expectations The perception of the...

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1 Sep, 2017

The Irony Of Cap Rates

Objective Value Is A Matter Of PerspectiveBy Adam Karnes A capitalization rate, or cap rate, is a...

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1 Sep, 2017

Self-Storage Investor Survey

Second Quarter 2017 The survey data was collected as part of an online questionnaire that was sent...

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1 Nov, 2016

Maintaining Your Lease-Up Schedule

Best Practices To Stay On Track Self-storage owners dream of the moment they conquer their...

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1 Sep, 2016

Buy Or Build?

Investment Insight For The Best Deals Back in the spring of this year, Sovran Self Storage, Inc.,...

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1 Sep, 2016

The Results Are In!

2016 Investor Survey At the beginning of April 2016, Cushman & Wakefield conducted an investor...

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