Australasia

Update 8/31/22 – New information has been released about the human remains found at an Auckland, New Zealand, self-storage facility. Investigators have identified the children, believed to be between the ages of five and 10, but haven’t released...

Switzerland-based Partners Group AG has invested $100 million into a fund launched by StoreInvest, a managed-investment platform affiliated with Australia-based self-storage operator StoreLocal Pty. Ltd. This capital, along with another $10...

StoreLocal, which operates more than 30 self-storage facilities in Australia, has purchased official naming rights for the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU) “Hospital Cup” competition. The partnership is for the remainder of the men’s 2022 season...

Funds managed by Blackstone Real Estate Partners (BREP) have acquired Fort Knox Self Storage, an 11-facility portfolio in Melbourne, Australia. The transaction is “one of the largest self-storage transactions in Australia,” company officials said...

Australia-based DBI Storage Pty. Ltd. has purchased a five-property self-storage portfolio in Western Australia from KBH Group for $84 million. KBH plans to use the funds to expand on the East Coast, where demand for self-storage is on the rise...

Lance Greaney, director of Oamaru Self Storage in Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand, got involved in a foot chase on Wednesday when a police fugitive ran out of an RV that was parked on the property, in which he’d been hiding illegally. Greaney...