Your successful self-storage company is more than just your most valuable capital asset: It represents the realization of a dream. During the startup and growth stages, enhancing your firms productivity was your primary goal...

Who do you turn to when looking to sell a self-storage facility? The market is very fragmented, and ownership is still mostly held by private investors, small ownership/ management companies as well as the big boys. So what do you do when you want...

Self-storage is a booming $21 billion business nationwide. It has nearly doubled in size during the past decade, with one in 11 households renting space in nearly 50,000 U.S. facilities. No other business offers the return and the ease of...

Preparing your facility for market involves making the property appeal to the broadest range of buyers for an expeditious and profitable sale...

Navigating the closing process in todays self-storage market hasnt exactly been smooth because of recent capital markets fluctuations. But the closing process can certainly be more streamlined if a buyer takes the proper precautions and performs...

Since the late 90s, the investment community has viewed commercial real estate as a virtually infallible investment vehicle. Self-storage properties were always considered a relatively safe bet because of their limited management responsibilities...

Public Storage, the nations largest self-storage operator, has reached a preliminary agreement to sell a 51 percent stake in its Shurgard Europe division in a private transaction.