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Navigating Real Estate Debt Challenges in the Self Storage Market

The availability of real estate debt has become a major headwind impacting the industry. Many real estate developers encounter difficulties when attempting to secure construction debt from banks. What is at the root of the concern, and how is the self...

Self Storage Investing: A Lucrative Opportunity for Savy Investors

Self storage investing has emerged as a promising avenue for generating substantial returns. As the demand for secure, flexible storage space continues to rise, it presents a compelling investment opportunity for those seeking stable cash flow and...

The Current State of the Self Storage Market: June 2023

Self Storage development is as hard as it gets right now.

Why the Self Storage Industry has Outperformed other Real Estate Investments

Not all commercial real estate investments are equal. Diverse demand drivers have allowed the self storage industry to historically outperform other sectors through economic ups and downs. Currently, the office market suffers from low occupancy, a result...

A New Bull Market for Self Storage

Demand and Occupancy Surge, Driving Rental Rates to Near Record COVID-19 has created a surge in demand for self-storage space since the second half of 2020, boosting rental rates and occupancies to or near all-time highs. This surge in demand has...

Investing In Self Storage - Why Now?

One of the most common questions we get is “Why is now the right time for a self storage development fund?” The “now” is always emphasized, a reference to the headwinds of a pandemic, recession, election year and the enormous disruption we are all...

Touchless Demand and Tech Tools for Self Storage

Touchless Demand and Tech Tools for Self Storage Gary Delaney, Principal Younger Renters + COVID = Contactless Leasing The influx of Millennials and Gen-Z self-storage customers along with the need for contactless rentals...

Protect Your Downside

Theres an old adage that states to "Cover your bases." Drew Dolan applies that same principal learned from baseball to the evaluation of a real estate deal, in that you should always 'Protect your downside.' Sometimes if things don't go according to...

Don't be Afraid to Invest Small. Just Do It.

You have to start your investment journey somewhere. Don't be afraid to start small. Don't be Afraid to Invest Small. Just Do It. DXD Capital's Drew Dolan sits down with AJ Osborne from the Self Storage investing Podcast. This was a great...

It Ain't Seasonal

It Ain't Seasonal Cory Sylvester, Principal Self storage web rates continued their strong performance through mid-December. Using 10x10 climate-controlled web rates as our proxy, ending November rates were approximately 19% higher than they...