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devon self storage houston

20 Dec, 2024

Devon Assumes Management of Four Self-Storage Assets in Texas

Devon Self Storage, a member of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc., announced today...

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ABC Storage

12 Dec, 2024

West Coast Self-Storage Adds ABC Mini Storage

West Coast Self-Storage Group has added ABC Mini Storage in Pacific, Wash., to its management...

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Ardian Acquires Atout-Box

12 Dec, 2024

French Investment Firm Ardian Acquires Atout-Box

Atout-Box, which owns seven storage facilities with complementary services such as co-working...

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opentech storage auctions

19 Nov, 2024

OpenTech Acquires Two More Online Self-Storage Auction Platforms

OpenTech Alliance, a PropTech leader in self-storage that assumed ownership of StorageTreasures.com...

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Gantry Self Storage

14 Nov, 2024

Gantry Secures $18.9M for Three Self-Storage Facilities

Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has secured a...

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UMH properties storage units

5 Nov, 2024

UMH Properties Surpasses 1000 self-storage units

UMH Properties, Inc. has announced that as of November 1, 2024, the company has more than 1,000...

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Investa

22 Oct, 2024

Investa Capital Acquires BBi Constructors

James Reid, CEO of Investa Capital, recently acquired BBi Constructors Inc., the general contractor...

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Absolute Storage Management

21 Oct, 2024

Absolute Storage Management Expands Its Portfolio

Absolute Storage Management (Absolute) has expanded its management portfolio by two properties.

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Gantry USA Storage Centers

18 Oct, 2024

Gantry Secures $12.7M In Permanent Refinancing

Gantry, an independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has secured a permanent loan...

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17 Oct, 2024

Devon Secures First Self-Storage Asset In Kansas

Devon Self Storage (Devon) has been awarded the property management for University Storage, a...

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11 Oct, 2024

Ares Management Corporation to Acquire GCP International

Ares Management Corporation has announced that it will acquire the international business of GLP...

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Regency Affiliates CEO

11 Oct, 2024

Regency Affiliates Buys Out Minority Partner

Regency Affiliates, Inc. has announced the buyout of its self-storage minority partner. In 2016,...

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self storage sales

9 Oct, 2024

Storage Center Portfolio Snatched Up By Investors

Marcus & Millichap has just announced the sale of The Storage Center, a three-property, 3,380-unit...

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Extra Space Sale

5 Oct, 2024

extra space Deal Called "The largest single-property sale in self-storage history"

Investment firm Hines has stuck a deal to acquire a three-story self-storage facility in...

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matthews Real estate

26 Sep, 2024

Self-Storage Transaction in Nebraska Completed

In a remarkable achievement marked by perseverance and strategic negotiation, Mason Gates, a...

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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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Go Store It Merger

26 Aug, 2024

Go Store It and Snapbox Self Storage Announce Merger

Go Store It Self Storage and Snapbox Self Storage announced today that the companies have...

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smartstop self storage

2 Aug, 2024

SmartStop Self Storage Celebrates 200th Property Milestone

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

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devon self storage

25 Jul, 2024

Devon Self Storage Portfolio Grows to More than 170 Properties

Devon Self Storage, a member of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc. , announced today...

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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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13 Jun, 2024

Devon Self Storage Adds 32 Assets To Its Portfolio

Devon Self Storage, a member of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc. , has assumed the...

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Storable and StorageAuctions.com

11 Jun, 2024

Storable Acquires StorageAuctions.com

Storable, which provides integrated technology solutions for the self-storage industry, has...

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10 Jun, 2024

Lok'nStore Votes In Favor of Shurgard Acquisition

On April 11, 2024, Shurgard, the largest developer, owner, and operator of self-storage facilities...

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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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NSA Storage

4 Jun, 2024

National Storage Affiliates To Internalize All PROs

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- National Storage Affiliates Trust (“NSA” or the...

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self storage consolidation

29 May, 2024

Chain Of Command: What Hospitality Consolidation Means For Self-Storage

There are an estimated 700,000 hotels in the world – that’s about 18 million guest rooms. For many...

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citizen storage

28 May, 2024

Citizen Storage Expands With two property takeovers

Third-party self-storage facility management company Citizen Storage, headquartered in Royal Oak,...

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pogoda self storage

28 May, 2024

Pogoda Awarded Management Contracts in Michigan & Ohio

As part of its ongoing aggressive growth strategy, Michigan-based Pogoda Companies, a provider of...

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self storage acquisitions

23 May, 2024

Global Self Storage Rejects Etude Acquisition Attempt

Real estate investment trust Global Self Storage, Inc., which owns, operates, manages, acquires,...

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Prime Group Holdings

15 May, 2024

Prime Group Holdings Make Second Canadian Acquisition, Plans More

Prime Group Holdings, LLC, which raised its first private equity real estate fund dedicated to...

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Etude Proposal Self Storage

7 May, 2024

Etude Storage Partners Makes proposal to acquire Global Self Storage

Etude Storage Partners LLC, a self-storage investment firm, has made a proposal to acquire Global...

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Devon Self Storage

7 May, 2024

Devon Awarded Property Management of Six Self-Storage Assets

Devon Self Storage, a member of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc., has been awarded...

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18 Apr, 2024

Self-Storage Veteran Selling Businesses Due To Health

Eric Smith, Owner/President of Self Storage Brokers of America Inc (SSBA) and its subsidiary, ...

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shurgard self storage

11 Apr, 2024

Shurgard Buying Self-Storage Rival Lok'nStore

European self-storage company Shurgard has agreed to buy UK rival Lok'nStore in an all-cash deal...

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self storage buyers

2 Apr, 2024

Self Storage Cash Buyers Buying Distressed Facilities

Self Storage Cash Buyers has announced its commitment to purchasing distressed self-storage...

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manhattan mini storage

7 Mar, 2024

Manhattan Mini Storage Takes Over Public Storage Facility

Manhattan Mini Storage, the largest storage provider inNew York City, proudly announces that the...

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Life Storage Sale

26 Feb, 2024

ERI Sells Facility To Heitman Capital Management

According to Keen-Summit Capital Partners, which brokered the sale, Equity Resource Investments...

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shurgard pickens deal

15 Feb, 2024

Dechert Advises Shurgard on Acquisition of Pickens Self-Storage in Germany

Dechert, a global law firm and counsel to asset managers, financial institutions, and...

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green space

9 Feb, 2024

SLI Capital & Madison Capital to Purchase Controlling Interest in Green Space

SLI Capital CEO Bryan Kane and Madison Capital CEO Ryan Hanks announced today that their firms have...

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Pogoda Self Storage

1 Feb, 2024

Pogoda Companies Awarded Two Management Contracts

Michigan-based Pogoda Companies has announced two new management contracts in Goodrich, Michigan...

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compass self storage

30 Jan, 2024

Compass Self Storage Expands in the atlanta market

Compass Self Storage, a member of the Amsdell family of companies, has announced the acquisition of...

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international self storage

17 Jan, 2024

Ardian Investors Acquire Leading French Self-Storage Company Costockage

Ardian, a world-leading private investment house, has announced the acquisition of Costockage, a...

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absolute storage management

16 Jan, 2024

Absolute Adds Three Facilities To Its Management Portfolio

Absolute Storage Management (Absolute) has been selected to professionally manage three unrelated...

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Extra Space NYSE

12 Jan, 2024

Extra Space Celebrates Merger With Life Storage At NYSE Closing Bell

On January 9, 2024, Extra Space Storage celebrated its merger with Life Storage by ringing the...

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Inland Devon Self Storage

9 Jan, 2024

Inland Acquiring Majority Interest in Devon Self Storage

The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc., one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate...

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Prince Harry Self Storage

7 Jan, 2024

Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Announce New Self-storage Facility

Okay, it's an early April Fools' joke. But we love when the industry gets attention, even from the...

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prime group canada

22 Dec, 2023

Prime Group Acquires First Self Storage Asset in Canada

Prime Group has acquired its first self-storage asset outside the United States. The private equity...

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dunamis extra space

28 Nov, 2023

Extra Space Storage partner dunamis develops new properties

Indiana-based real estate investment and development company Dunamis Development has been focusing...

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storagemart

17 Nov, 2023

StorageMart Acquires Hanley Self Storage, Expands to Idaho

StorageMart, headquartered inColumbia, MO, has expanded toIdahowith the acquisition ofHanley...

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extra space warehouse anywhere

22 Sep, 2023

Extra Space Sells Warehouse Anywhere

When Extra Space Storage and Life Storage merged in July, the real estate investment trust also...

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Storhub Japan

13 Sep, 2023

StorHub Acquires Storage PLUS

On Sept. 11, one of the largest self-storage transactions to ever transpire in Japan occurred when...

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Storable News

16 Aug, 2023

Inside the Storable and CallPotential Deal

The big news within the self-storage industry yesterday was word that Storable, the leading...

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26 Jul, 2023

New Details About the Extra Space/Life Storage Merger

Following approval of shareholders from both companies, the finalization of the Extra Space and...

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Public Storage

26 Jul, 2023

New Details on the Public Storage Acquisition of Simply

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for self storage mergers and acquisitions. On Monday, Public...

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15 May, 2023

Safeguard Self Storage FL Acquisition | Mini-Storage Messenger

Safeguard Self Storage is has formally announced its latest acquisition of Citrus Park in Tampa,...

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9 Feb, 2023

Public Storage Targets Life Storage

On Feb. 5, 2023, Public Storage made it known that the publicly traded real estate investment...

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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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19 Jan, 2019

The Descending Economy

Is Plunging Performance Problematic? At the moment, descent is not a problem. However, it is a...

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1 Oct, 2018

What It’s Worth?

Determining The Real Value Of A Property Operating a self-storage business also means owning a...

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1 Sep, 2018

Pawns Of Price

Stalemates In The Sales Process According to one source, there may be $400 million in...

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1 Sep, 2017

Don’t Be Hasty!

The Best Pre-Sale Preparations Opting to sell your self-storage facility is not a decision to...

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1 Jan, 2017

Broker Basics

Industry Experience Adds Value If you are planning to sell your property, you may assume a...

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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 Price Of Safety

Fire Code Sparks Costly Change In Charleston, S.C., a memorial, appropriately called the...

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1 May, 2016

The Alternate Route

Planning Your Exit Strategy By some reckoning, about 80 percent of the ownership of self-storage...

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1 Apr, 2016

Time To Sell?

Six Considerations For Sellers There is a growing perception that self-storage real estate values...

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1 Apr, 2016

Staying On Track

Five Steps For Transaction Management Successfully selling or buying your self-storage facility...

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1 Feb, 2016

Sell, Buy, Build, Or Hold?

Using Industry Insight As A Guiding Light By Steve Libert Will 2016 pick up where 2015 left off...

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