The North Texas Argus Team of Chad Snyder and Tyler Trahant closed their third self storage transaction of 2021 with SRE Self-Storage in Van Alstyne, TX to a local investor. The facility sits on 1.5 acres and offers 9,400 rentable square feet of storage. The sale closed March 2021. SRE Self Storage is a 71-unit storage facility located in Grayson County on the east side of Van Alstyne, Texas. Grayson County, which has seen growth of over 2% per year since 2016, will soon be welcoming the new master planned…
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Independence Commercial Advisors Closes First Class Storage
Independence Commercial Advisors is pleased to announce the closing of First Class Storage, a 39,070 rentable-square-foot facility in San Marcos, Texas, which is in the Austin, Texas MSA. First Class Storage was built in two phases in 2010 and 2017 and includes 7.81 acres of land. Nicholas T. Ling, Senior Director and Mark V. Diebold, Senior Director had the exclusive listing to market the property on behalf of the Seller, a private investor. Both Ling and Diebold also procured and represented Buyer in closing this transaction.
Featured Broker: Michael Sanders
Michael Sanders is an investment associate with The LeClaire-Schlosser Group of Marcus & Millichap. He is focused on serving his clients in the acquisition and disposition of self storage facilities in Phoenix as well as secondary and tertiary Arizona markets. Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Dixie State University in St. George, Utah. While attending school, he participated on the University’s football team. Michael led the Trailblazers as the starting quarterback as well as a team captain. While excelling on the field, he also won in…
How Data Platforms Are the Future of Investment Sales
These days, the story of industry disruption through innovative technology is a daily occurrence. Interestingly, each new innovation triggers a series of disruptions by applying that technology to other industries. For example, Uber was a major disruptor in transportation services and today there are countless “Uber of …” across myriad industries. Within the storage industry, we have observed this through the emergence of companies like Clutter and Neighbor. As real estate specific technologies (aka Prop Tech) continue to emerge, self storage owners and investors should be prepared to experience a…
Bellomy & Co. Closes Sale of 189-Unit Self Storage Facility in Iowa
Bellomy & Co. negotiated the sale of Hawkeye Storage in Red Oak, Iowa. The Class-B property is made up of 189 units in 29,120 NRSF. Bill Bellomy and Michael Johnson of Bellomy & Co. represented THR Storage, LLC, the seller. The team also procured the buyer, Dougherty Storage LLC. Bellomy & Co. is an Austin- and Houston, Texas-based commercial real estate firm with a team exclusively focused on the self storage industry. Source
Storage Wars: Self Storage Start-Up Neighbor Raises $53 Million
After posting five times year-over-year revenue growth, Neighbor is raising over $50 million from investors. This is the self storage marketplace start-up’s Series B round of financing. Proptech venture capital fund Fifth Wall is leading the deal. Andreessen Horowitz, who led the Series A early last year, is participating again, while DoorDash (NYSE: DASH) CEO Tony Xu and StockX CEO Scott Cutler will be newcomers to the cap table. WHAT IS NEIGHBOR UP TO? Put simply, Neighbor is Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) for underutilized or vacant space in a building. For…
Macerich Sells Paradise Valley Mall for $126.5 Million; Major Redevelopment Set
Macerich has sold Paradise Valley Mall, a 1.2 million-square-foot shopping center in Phoenix, for $126,500,000 to a joint venture of RED Development and an affiliate, according to the commercial real estate tracking website Vizzda. The deal comes with $89,578,260 in new debt with Western Alliance Bank, according to Vizzda. The property recently received rezoning approval from the city and the previous partnership of Macerich and RED were moving forward with redevelopment plans to transform the asset into a 6.5 million-square-foot, mixed-use project combining the nearby Desert Ridge Marketplace and Kierland…
The Colliers International Self Storage Group Announces Sale of Valdosta, GA Self Storage Facility
The Colliers International Self Storage Group is pleased to announce the sale of the CubeSmart Self Storage located at 3819 North Valdosta Road in Valdosta, Georgia. Collett Capital, LLC, sold the facility on March 31, 2021, to Southern Storage Management Systems, Inc. CubeSmart | Valdosta will continue to benefit from its close proximity to downtown Valdosta, Valdosta State University, and Moody Air Force Base. CubeSmart | Valdosta sits on approximately 3.17 acres, and consists of nine single-story buildings constructed with structural steel framing with metal exterior walls and steel interior…
CRE Loan Maturities Cushioned by Willing Lenders
As $430 billion of the $2.3 trillion in outstanding commercial and multifamily mortgage debt matures in 2021, borrowers with cash-flowing properties will find mortgage capital waiting to soften the landing. “There’s a strong appetite for lenders to make loans right now,” said Jamie Woodwell, vice president of commercial real estate research for the Mortgage Bankers Association. ”That means there’s plenty of capital looking to get invested in mortgages and equity, as well.” The big challenge in an increasingly vaccinated post-COVID-19 world will be identifying which properties will be able to…
Berkshire Hathaway Storage Group Brokers Sale of 1,044-Unit Portfolio in Laredo
Berkshire Hathaway Storage Group has brokered the sale of the Laredo Storage Portfolio, a collection of self storage facilities in the Rio Grande Valley. The portfolio consists of an undisclosed number of properties that are situated on a combined 6.8 acres and that feature 1,044 units across 138,980 net rentable square feet. A locally based seller sold the portfolio to an institutional private equity firm for an undisclosed price. Josh Cato, Cameron Vale and Parker Sweet of Berkshire Hathaway Storage Group brokered the deal. Source
