Updated 1/27/2021 This page contains statistics about the U.S. self-storage industry compiled by The SpareFoot Storage Beat. Statistics on this page will be updated as we receive new data. If you have data that you’d like to share or have a question about data on this page, please email editor@sparefoot.com. Self-storage sector snapshot Average monthly…
As part of the sale of his multimillion truck part business RealTruck.com in 2015, entrepreneur and author Scott Bintz agreed to a non-compete clause. That meant he couldn’t launch any kind of e-commerce business for five years. So, he built a self-storage facility. “I’d sold RealTruck.com,” Bintz told the SpareFoot Storage Beat, “I built a…
This page is an archive of self-storage acquisition news from January 2021. Acquisition news from 1/27/2021 JLL reports the following: Buyer: National Storage Affiliates Seller: The Jenkins Organization Number of locations: 14 facilities Location: Texas, Minnesota, and Missouri Net square footage: 845,401 Number of units: 8,517 Brokers involved: Steve Mellon, Brian Somoza, David Berglund, and Blaise Tomazic of JLL represented…
This post is an archive of self-storage acquisition news from the month of December 2020. For the latest acquisition news, check out the most recent edition of Sold! by clicking here. Acquisition news from 12/2/2020 Garage Plus Self Storage in Spanaway, WA was sold for $14.1 million, representing a cap rate of 7%. Christopher R….
This is an archive of self-storage acquisition news items collected during the month of November 2020. News from the week of 11/4/20 Michigan-based Storage Pros Management LLC has sold a 16-property self-storage portfolio in New England to SROA Capital, a storage-invested private equity firm based in West Palm Beach, FL. Storage Pros was represented by…
Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc (BREIT), a REIT managed by the worldwide real estate investment firm Blackstone, has struck a deal to purchase the Simply Self Storage portfolio for an estimated $1.2 billion. The portfolio is being sold by Brookfield Asset Management, which first acquired a majority stake in the company for $830 million…
The world’s second richest man is joining forces with the eighth largest self-storage company. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, has acquired an ownership stake in Columbia, MO-based storage operator StorageMart. The investment in the company was made via Cascade Investment LLC, a private investment entity controlled exclusively by Gates. Gates was not the only investor…
An archive of weekly acquisition news from the month of October. News from the week of 10/14/20: Seattle-based Urban Storage purchased the Storage One self-storage facility at 1105 Sunset Boulevard NE in Renton, WA for $12.2 million, according to local property records. The property was sold by Spencer Renton LLC, which purchased the property for…
Jernigan Capital has struck a deal to be acquired by Dallas-based alternative investment firm NexPoint advisors. The deal is valued at about $900 million. NexPoint has agreed to buy the publicly traded self-storage lender and investment firm for $17.30 per common share and $25.00 per share for Series B preferred stock. Launched in 2015 by…
InSite Property Group is a multifaceted real estate investment group with 25 development deals in place across the country—22 of them are self-storage. It operates its storage facilities under the name SecureSpace. The firm has completed and opened three so far, the latest is a 75,000 net rentable square foot facility in Camarillo, CA with…
