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National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSAT), a Maryland real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in self-storage, has hired Russell Brown as senior vice president of acquisitions. Brown will join the REIT’s acquisition platform, which has...

Storage King, which operates 28 self-storage locations in England, has launched a property-management service for other facility operators in the United Kingdom. Storage King Management 1st will offer access to the company’s operational systems...

Update 10/3/19 – Yates was found guilty during a trial at the Riverside Hall of Justice last week and convicted on 20 counts of felony animal cruelty in connection with the June 2017 and February 2018 incidents in which he locked cats and dogs in...

Space Station Self Storage, which operates nine facilities in England, has launched an initiative encouraging staff to donate 1 percent of their work hours to charitable fundraising and volunteering. In response, employees have given their time to...

Town officials in Wethersfield, Conn., last month imposed a 180-day moratorium on new applications for self-storage facilities. During the Sept. 11 meeting, they also agreed the ban could be extended another six months, according to the source...

The Federation of European Self Storage Associations (FEDESSA) and investment-management firm JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) have released research findings from a 2019 survey of the European self-storage market. The organizations polled more than 800...

StorTrack, a provider of competitor-pricing data, market-analysis tools and first-stage due diligence to the self-storage industry, has rebranded its market-intelligence platform as “Optimize.” The change to the online application coincides with...

The Storage Group (TSG), an Internet-marketing company that serves the self-storage industry, has released a new “Performance Dashboard” designed to help facility operators manage, monitor and measure marketing and software data collected about...

Update 10/1/19 – CBL Properties has begun converting the former Golfsmith store in Chattanooga, Tenn., to self-storage. Scheduled to open in March, Box Storage will comprise 645 climate-controlled units and be managed by Absolute Storage...

Armadillo Self Storage, which operates 24 facilities across the United Kingdom, is providing free space at its Warrington, England, location to the North Cheshire branch of National Childbirth Trust (NCT), the U.K.’s largest charity for new...