Happenings

Guardian Storage, which operates 25 self-storage facilities in Colorado and Pennsylvania, has taken several steps to ensure employee and customer safety during the coronavirus pandemic, including a contact-free rental and move-in process for...

CubeSmart, a publicly traded self-storage real estate investment trust and management company, has introduced contactless rentals for customers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Now available at the company’s New Jersey locations, the...

Simply Self Storage (SSS), which owns or manages more than 100 self-storage facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico, has launched “Simple Rental,” which provides online rental capability to customers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic...

Update 3/26/20 – Self-storage properties are constantly changing hands, and Inside Self-Storage is regularly notified of these market transactions. Here’s an overview of additional activity happening in March 2020...

Three men are facing federal charges in connection with firearms that were stolen from multiple Los Angeles self-storage facilities between December 2018 and September 2019. A total of 47 weapons were reported as stolen from locations in Culver...

Marcus & Millichap (M&M), a commercial real estate firm that specializes in self-storage, has named Steven D. Weinstock as national director of its Self Storage Division, which provides market knowledge, asset expertise and transaction services to...

Commercial real estate firm Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has released a “2020 Summary Market Report” on the self-storage industry. The publication offers insight to the impact of the 10-year Treasuries interest and capitalization (cap) rates on the...