New Management For Local Self-Storage Facility

  New Management in Dahlonega, Georgia” Local acquisition of Lumpkin 400 Storage is bringing professional self-storage management to the city of Dahlonega. The facility is located at 210 Ethan Allen Drive Dahlonega, GA. This facility is comprised of 573 units totaling 88,396 rentable square feet, providing safe and secure climate-controlled, non-climate, and parking unit options to the local communities of Auraria, Lumpkin, and Dawson. The ownership group has contracted with Absolute Storage Management (Absolute) to provide professional self-storage management services and the facility is officially under Absolute’s management as of…

$42 Million Sale of Storage Facility Nets Land Bank a Massive One-Day Haul

  A massive arm’s length real estate deal that was completed on Monday has netted the Nantucket Land Bank $840,000, the second largest transfer fee received in its four-decade history.”   The Go Store It self storage facility on Tomahawk Road has been “sold” for a whopping $42 million. It’s unclear if the deed transfer represents a buyout within the company, a shuffling of limited liability company ownership for tax purposes, or some other corporate strategy. But one thing is clear: it means a huge one-day haul for the Land…

A Private Equity Real Estate Investor Bets Big on Self Storage

Prime Group Holdings’ latest self storage fund reached its hard cap of $2.5 billion. Single-sector private equity real estate funds are not unusual, but the majority tend to target core real estate assets. But Prime Group Holdings LLC has found success off the beaten path, focusing its funds on niche property types. Investors have poured $2.5 billion into its latest initiative, Prime Storage Fund III, focused on the self storage space, blowing past the fund’s $1.5 billion target to reach its hard cap of $2.5 billion. The offering is the…

True Storage Completes Retail to Storage Conversion in Connecticut

True Storage opened a new self-storage facility at 10 Prospect Hill Terrace in East Windsor, CT. It opened on Jan. 24. The renovated, 51,383-square-foot facility has 585 climate-controlled units and previously was a site for Burlington Coat Factory (below). It is the second store in the True Storage portfolio that Store Space Self Storage is managing, and a third property, located in Columbus, GA, is scheduled for late Q1 or early Q2 of 2023. The first facility together is in Lafayette, IN. Based in Manchester, NH, True Storage also has…

SBA 504 Loan: Lower Down Payment AND More Favorable Rules for Seller Financing

Every year Bank Five Nine funds numerous transactions based on complex change-of-ownership transactions that include the purchase of real estate. In many cases, financing is provided in combination with the both the SBA 7(a) Program (intangible assets) and the SBA 504 Program (fixed assets). Seller financing is also common in these types of projects, but it is important to structure the deal right on the front end in order to allow for seller financing to count toward the required down payment and also ensure the payback terms are acceptable to…

Recent Transactions: 02.14.2023 – 02.20.2023

Property: U-Stor-It Location: Lansing, MI Brokers and Brokerage: Meir Perlmuter, Nathan Coe, Brett Hatcher and Gabriel Coe of the Hatcher-Coe Group of Marcus & Millichap NRSF: 41,600 Unit Count: 385 non-climate-controlled units Physical Occupancy: 94% Highlights: Undersaturated self storage market Dense and growing surrounding population: 155,073 people living within five miles Portfolio: LaFayette Storage Solutions Location: LaFayette, GA (North and South) Broker and Brokerage: Michael Morrison of Midcoast Properties, Inc. NRSF (North): 8,700 NRSF (South): 28,530 Unit Count (North): 74 standard drive-up units Unit Count (South): 189 standard drive-up units…

Recent Transactions: 02.07.2023 – 02.13.2023

Property: Goudchaux’s Building Location: Nashville, TN Closing Price: $3.9 Million Broker and Brokerage: Matthew Shirley of Saurage Rotenberg Commercial Real Estate Buyer: Baton Rouge QOZ Self-Storage LLC Seller: Renaissance Park LLC Square Feet: 158,000   Property: Go Store It Self Storage Location: Nantucket County, MA Closing Price: $42 Million Buyer: Go Store It Nantucket Storage DST Seller: Go Store It Nantucket LLC   Property: Creekside Storage Location: Grand Rapids, MI Year Built: 2019 Brokers and Brokerage: Brian Kelly, Brett Hatcher and Gabriel Coe of the Hatcher-Coe Group of Marcus &…