State of The Self-Storage Industry
I want to take a few Episodes and share some of the take away I have from attending the Inside Self Storage Convention a few weeks ago in Las Vegas. We are now in an industry that is growing and evolving at a fast rate, and it is important to keep our finger on the...
Interesting Statistics from Self-Storage Investor Survey | Last Part of 2018
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...
Snap Shot Of Self-Storage Industry January 2019
Every now and then it’s good to pull our heads up and just look at our self-storage industry. There is no doubt that the industry has grown during this recovery. Some may say too much, but this is the inevitable cycle that affects all real estate and businesses. As an...
Three Self-Storage Trends I See Driving Self-Storage In 2019
As a business owner, part of our job is to always have an eye on the future. What self-storage trends do we see coming at us from the future that will impact our self-storage business? Here are three trends I see that are reshaping the self-storage business and what...
Has Lease Up Absorption for new Facilities or Expansions Slowed Down?
There is no question about it. The self-storage industry has experienced a construction boom. As of Sept. 2018, units planned or under construction account for 9.3% of the existing inventory in the U.S. according to Yardi matrix. The most active markets amount the 31...
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