Category: Finance News

The fact of the matter is, Americans keep buying more stuff. And when stuff starts piling up, they need a place to put it. More than one in five Americans rent a self storage unit. And that number is growing by the day. So has rent. Self-storage rent has increased 6.1% year-over-year to $176 for a standard 10-foot-by-10-foot unit, according to RentCafe. South Florida had the seventh-most self-storage construction activity during the last decade with 9.1 million square feet of new storage. DXD Capital obtained a $10.33 million construction loan…

  10 Federal, a prominent and innovative leader in the self-storage sector, proudly announces a highly successful capital infusion of $21 million in equity during the third quarter for their Fourth Self Storage offering. This achievement has propelled 10 Federal’s total capital raised for its fourth offering to an impressive $80 million, approaching the company’s ambitious $100 million year-end target. “We are excited to share that we have successfully secured an additional $20 million in equity funding during the third quarter, bringing our total capital raise to $80 million within…

Basis Industrial, a privately held and vertically integrated real estate owner and operator based in Boca Raton, Florida, closed on an $8.308 million construction loan on Sept. 22, 2023 for a self-storage facility located at 1610 Algonquin Street, Detroit, MI 48215. Basis Industrial acquired the land on which the storage facility is being built in October 2021. This is Basis’ third construction loan closing this year. Basis continues to source financing due to its long track record of success and deep financial acumen. Berkadia sourced the construction financing from Old…

A Fairborn shopping center largely vacant since losing a Kmart several years ago has been sold for $3 million, Greene County records show. The 9.5-acre Fairborn Five Points Shopping Center, the site of a planned 600-unit indoor self-storage facility, has been bought by Cobblestone Capital of Bowling Green, Ky., according to the county auditor’s office. Cobblestone Capital purchased the site at 224 E. Dayton Yellow Springs Road last month from Gator Five Points Partners, which bought it for $2.1 million in 2007, according to county records. The site is at…

A Houston-based investor that owns multiple Dallas-area office and retail properties has sought bankruptcy protection for its assets with more than $200 million in debt. Hartman SPE LLC has been selling off its office and retail properties to refocus the company on self-storage investments. In the Dallas area, the Hartman real estate investment trust owned 10 office buildings and three shopping centers at the start of 2023. Some of its high-profile holdings include the North Central Plaza tower and Gateway Tower on North Central Expressway in North Dallas. The real…

Allegany Crossing Self Storage, the new facility with indoor, climate-controlled space as well as outside storage space and located in the former Kmart plaza on Route 417, is quietly opening this week. The 21-acre site includes the 100,000-square-foot building, which was renovated inside and out, with about 60,000 square feet for indoor storage and the remainder for retail, commercial or light manufacturing. There is more outdoor secure storage to complement hundreds of indoor storage spaces of all sizes The owner is Cornell Capital Holdings, headquartered in Olean and which built…

BWE closed a $10,000,000 construction loan for the ground-up development of a new 733-unit self-storage facility in downtown Lancaster, CA. Arash Kouhi, VP in BWE’s Phoenix office, originated the loan from a credit union on behalf of Frontera Real Estate Investments. The loan has a 15-year term with three years of interest-only payments. “We worked closely with our partners at Frontera Real Estate to complete this deal despite the adverse market conditions, and we’re proud to help them develop this project in an area that’s seeing high demand for reliable…