by Mark Helm | Aug 28, 2019 | Financial Analysis of Self Storage, Self Storage Business Planning
Over the past few years, I have been expecting CAP rates to start going up, making self-storage pricing more realistic. I’m still waiting. How about you? Have you seen much of a change in storage pricing compared to NOI? What would change it, and could that happen in...
by Mark Helm | Aug 5, 2019 | Financial Analysis of Self Storage, Self Storage Management
Whatever city you are in, no matter where you go, you see new self-storage being built. Even people who have nothing to do with the industry, when they hear you are involved with self-storage in some way, will comment, “I see it going up everywhere.” All this leads us...
by Mark Helm | Jun 15, 2019 | Buy Self Storage, Financial Analysis of Self Storage, Self Storage Management
I discussed in last weeks’ episode How To Analyze An Expansion self-storage opportunity. This week, lets look at a conversion. When we say conversion, what I mean is we take an existing vacant building and convert it to self-storage. In my opinion, in today’s market,...
by Mark Helm | Mar 11, 2019 | Financial Analysis of Self Storage, Self Storage Business Planning, Self Storage Management
I was reading an “Investor Survey” in the last half of 2018 provided by one of the large Commercial Real Estate companies. Not that these are exact numbers, but they do tend to point to a direction the industry is going. I have seen these surveys from three different...
by Mark Helm | Aug 3, 2018 | Financial Analysis of Self Storage
If you are looking for a business opportunity or a commercial real estate play to invest in, I’m sure self storage has caught your attention. It is most likely something you thought about but never investigated seriously or never made a real move on. Now you are...
by Mark Helm | May 18, 2018 | Financial Analysis of Self Storage
The self storage industry in the US has never been more varied than it is today. It’s all over the place. In Las Vegas rents are up 70%. In Denver, rents are down 5%. In Dallas, about 22% more square feet of self storage has hit the market in the form of new...
