Valuing Self-Storage in 2026: Assumable Debt, Cap Rates & Trade-Area Data | TractIQ Ep. 6
Valuing Self-Storage in 2026: Assumable Debt, Cap Rates & Trade-Area Data — The Smartest Hour in Self-Storage, Ep. 6 In the 2026 season finale of The Smartest Hour in Self-Storage, TractIQ CEO Noah Starr brings together a broker and an appraiser to answer the two questions every self-storage buyer wrestles with: how do you underwrite […]
A Live Look at Market Prices for Self-Storage Facilities
Storage Digressions · No. 04 A live look at market prices for self-storage facilities 168 listings. $568 million. A live look at what self-storage is asking, and what actually moves the price per foot. Noah Starr · 17 August 2026 When you go to buy a stock, you have a wealth of information at […]
Q2 2026 Self-Storage REIT Report
Q2 2026 Self-Storage REIT Report Self-Storage Turns a Corner as Revenue and NOI Growth Return TractIQ’s quarterly read on the four public storage REITs, Extra Space, Public Storage, CubeSmart, and SmartStop, backed by facility-level street-rate and occupancy data. August 2026• 7 min read Q2 2026 at a Glance 92.9%Sector weighted-average same-store occupancy at […]
Nobody Invited Me to Storage Earnings Season, So I Held My Own Call
Nobody Invited Me to Storage Earnings Season, So I Held My Own Call Three Wall Street questions from Storage REITs’ Q2 calls, answered the way a public CEO never could. By Noah Starr Founder & CEO, TractIQ Last week the storage REITs reported quarterly earnings. So, being a good storage data nerd, I […]
Becoming the Self-Storage Buyer Brokers Call First
Deal Sourcing · For Investors Becoming the Buyer Brokers Call First In a fragmented, disciplined self-storage market, deal flow goes to the buyer a broker trusts to close. Here is how to become that buyer. TractIQ Research · 8 min read Every experienced storage investor has felt it. The best facilities seem to […]
How Much Does a Month of Delay Cost a Self-Storage Development
How Much Does a Month of Delay Cost a Self-Storage Development? | Storage Digressions How Much Does a Month of Delay Cost a Self-Storage Development? A data center stat sent me down a rabbit hole into what a self-storage development delay really costs — modeled with two AI models, real Austin street rates, and a […]
Self-Storage REIT Source Data — Street & Web Rates for 40+ MSAs
Q1 2026 · SELF-STORAGE REIT DATA The self-storage REIT data behind every confident deal The market-level rate and occupancy data behind our Q1 2026 Self-Storage REIT Report — realized rent per occupied square foot, year-over-year movement, and physical occupancy, broken out MSA by MSA across the five public storage REITs. Book a live demo Free […]
Q1 2026 REIT Report
DOWNLOAD · Q1 2026 REIT REPORT Self-storage REITs just posted their strongest quarter in two years. Every public self-storage REIT posted positive or flat same-store revenue in Q1 2026 — the first time that’s happened since 2024. Occupancy held steady, move-ins picked up, and Public Storage announced a $10.5B merger with NSA. Here’s the full […]
The Nation’s Self-Storage Assets Financial Report
The Verified Numbers Behind the Nation’s Storage Assets Forget street rates. Forget rule-of-thumb expense ratios. This report is built on something the industry has never had at scale: verified, borrower-reported financial performance data from CMBS-reporting self-storage facilities across the U.S. The TractIQ Self-Storage Financials Report delivers the benchmarks serious investors, operators, and lenders actually need […]
Q4 2025 REIT Data Download
FREE DOWNLOAD 10 Years of Self-Storage REIT Performance Data Here’s what’s inside 👇 → Quarterly data from Q1 2015 to Q4 2025 → Achieved rent per SF and same-store occupancy for Extra Space Storage, CubeSmart, Public Storage, NSA Storage (pre-acquisition), and SmartStop Self Storage → Same-store revenue growth, expense growth, and NOI growth by REIT […]
