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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2026 Self-Storage Almanac Data Release

The 2026 MSM Self-Storage Almanac is out. As the official data provider, we’re giving away the REIT occupancy dataset that powers it. REIT Occupancy Remains High, but the Real Story is What’s Missing Public self-storage REITs continue to report strong same-store occupancy, with averages hovering in the low-to-mid 90% range through 2024 and into 2025. […]
2025 Self-Storage Occupancy Report

See the 2025 Occupancy Data Your Competitors Missed For decades, the self-storage industry made billions of dollars of investment decisions each year without access to verified, facility level operating performance. Unlike rental rates or construction activity, occupancy and in place financials were never systematically available. Market participants were forced to rely on proxy signals such […]
REIT Street Rate Source Data for 40+ MSAs

REIT Street Rate Source Data for 40+ MSAs Historical data going back to January 2024 for non-climate-controlled 10x10s and climate-controlled 10x10s. MSAs that experienced strong year-over-year rate growth include Cincinnati, Boston, Memphis, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and New Orleans. MSAs that experienced the greatest year-over-year rate declines include San Antonio, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Houston, and Providence.