StorTrack Market of the Month: Chicago, IL

Chicago is a market where the underlying fundamentals tell a subtler story than pricing trends alone would suggest. The market is relatively mature with 12.4 million rentable square feet across 171 facilities and only one project currently under development. Yet despite this scale, Chicago remains structurally undersupplied at just 4.6 square feet per capita, equivalent to only 58% of the national average. To better understand its potential as a self-storage investment, we used StorTrack’s Explorer platform to dig into key market metrics. Market Snapshot for Chicago, IL What makes the current environment…