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Self-Storage Real Estate in the Western States: Capitalization Rates, Financing and New Development

The self-storage real estate market has shown more activity as investors began to once again seek quality properties. To get answers to questions relevant to today’s facility owners, buyers and sellers, a roundtable of real estate experts discuss the state of self-storage ...More
November 23, 2011
Posted in Articles, Development, Finance, Real Estate
The Role Arbitrage Plays in Today's Self-Storage Real Estate Opportunities

While an increase in revenue is creating more cash flow for self-storage owners today, the real opportunity lies in the arbitrage between cap rates and interest rates on which a real estate investor can capitalize. Arbitrage is usually thought of as a high finance concept, ...More
October 29, 2011 By Ben Vestal
Posted in Articles, Finance, Real Estate
Self-Storage Performance in a Recession: Why This Slump Is Different From Past Downturns

The self-storage market has improved, but it’s clear the industry is experiencing a different dynamic in today’s environment. While the current economic climate has raised questions about resiliency in the property type, a more fundamental question is whether existing and ...More
September 19, 2011
Posted in Articles, Finance, Real Estate
Risks and Opportunities in the Current Real Estate Market: Protecting Self-Storage Facility Value

There are many factors that affect self-storage facility value, and today's real estate market creates risks as well as opportunities for today's industry owners and investors. Read about cap rates, interests rates and other value influencers as well as ways to protect your ...More
July 31, 2011 By Ben Vestal
Posted in Articles, Finance, Real Estate
Real Estate Market Snapshot: Self-Storage in the Southeast States 2011

The self-storage real estate market is beginning to stabilize, and investors are once again seeking quality properties. To get answers to questions relevant to today’s facility owners, buyers and sellers, the author recently assembled a roundtable of real estate experts to ...More
March 3, 2011
Posted in Articles, Real Estate
The Commercial Self-Storage Real Estate Market: Decade in Review and Where Investors Go From Here

As we look back over the last 10 years, it’s encouraging to see cautious optimism present in today’s real estate market. Self-storage owners have the unique opportunity to capitalize on the recently improving real estate investment market, as values today are at the high ...More
February 9, 2011 By Ben Vestal
Posted in Articles, Real Estate
Self-Storage State of the Industry 2011: Real Estate

Despite the hardships suffered by many self-storage owners during the last three years, the flexibility afforded to storage facilities has helped the industry adjust to market fluctuations and avoid the devastating declines experienced by other commercial real estate ...More
December 21, 2010
Posted in Articles, Construction, Development, Finance, Real Estate
Real Estate Market Snapshot: Self-Storage in the Western States

The author recently assembled a roundtable of real estate experts to discuss the state of self-storage in the western region including the state of the market and how the industry will perform moving forward. ...More
October 30, 2010 By Ben Vestal
Posted in Articles, Development, Finance, Real Estate
Marcus & Millichap Hosts Free Webcast on Office and Industrial Market Outlook

Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services Inc. will host a free webcast on Sept. 22, 1:30 p.m. ET, titled, “Third Quarter 2010 Office and Industrial Market Outlook and Investment Strategies.” ...More
September 20, 2010
Posted in News, Finance, Real Estate
Financing Equity Shortfalls With Debt: Options Self-Storage Owners Can Use to Bridge the Gap

One of the most serious issues facing self-storage investors today is the potential equity gap that can be created upon the maturity of their existing debt. But there are options to bridge this gap. ...More
September 20, 2010 By Shawn Hill
Posted in Articles, Finance

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