The self storage business, which offers customers a secure place to store valuables, has grown into a major industry within the last few decades. Approximately 80 percent of storage businesses are ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. − “At the end of the world, everyone says there will only be Twinkies and cockroaches left," says Courtney Kahler, "and I’ve added self-storage to that. It’s an indestructible ...

Consider the four square feet immediately around you. Now consider that are you occupying your average per capita share of the Great American Self Storage Empire. According to the Self Storage ...

The U.S. is home to an estimated 50,000 self storage facilities, according to the Self Storage Association, a nonprofit trade organization representing self storage enterprises. The organization ...

ST. LOUIS — America, home of the free and land of self-storage. Of all the self-storage in all the world, more than 75 percent of it is in the United States. There are nearly 50,000 self-storage ...

Despite rising loan rates and already-thin acquisition yields, self-storage executives expect that prices will remain relatively firm due to the sector’s robust investor demand and strong operating ...

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For an industry that emerged from nowhere with no inherent allure, no collective marketing savvy and no tangible product to take home, the rental self-storage industry has piled up impressive numbers.

Even with the sustained headwinds of a challenging market, the self storage asset class has remained relatively healthy and an attractive investment target. Investors appreciate the steady returns ...

Self-storage buildings are going up just about everywhere. How did North Jerseyans end up with so little space and so much stuff? Nationwide in 2017, there were 11.8 million rentals in the United ...