News

Update 3/29/19 – The development of McCarthy’s Storage World in Clifton Without, England, will move forward after a planning inspector approved the project despite opposition. Developer MJ McCarthy Holdings filed an appeal, which the inspector...

Rona Siegel, district manager for The William Warren Group (WWG), a privately held real estate company that operates the StorQuest Self Storage brand, was unanimously elected as chairman of the New Canaan, N.Y., Parks and Recreation Commission...

Update 3/29/19 – The Dudas City Council voted 5-0 on March 25 to deny the rezoning request from Self Storage Dundas after determining the change would contradict the vision of the city’s current comprehensive plan. Mayor Glenn Switzer indicated...

Update 3/28/19 – 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 2019...

The governors of Mississippi, Montana and Virginia have signed updates to their state self-storage regulations, allowing facility operators to sell tenant insurance, send lien notices via verified mail or e-mail, and conduct auctions online...

Australia mobile-storage operator TaxiBox, in conjunction with its capital partners, has launched Calcumate, an SaaS (software as a service) calculator for the self-storage industry. Facility operators can plug the white-label offering into their...

Stanley Joseph Shader, co-founder of Shader Bros. Corp., which operates the Personal Mini Storage self-storage brand in Florida, passed away peacefully on March 24 at age 93. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Congregation Ohev Shalom in...

Sharebee Technologies Inc., a Canada-based peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace that specializes in storage services, has completed a pre-seed investment round led by Toronto-based All Canadian Self-Storage. Similar to other shared-economy networks...

Investment-management and real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL) has entered an agreement to acquire HFF Inc. in a cash-and-stock transaction worth about $2 billion. JLL and HFF are competing brokerages that work within the self-storage...